Note: Jonas Wulff has transitioned from the institute (alumni).
I'm currently a PhD student under Michael Black in the Department for Perceiving Systems at the MPI for Intelligent Systems in Tuebingen, Germany.
My main interest is motion. How does the world move? How does this motion manifest itself in a video, and how can we estimate it? And, once we estimate it, what does it tell us about the world and its temporal coherence, and how can a system use it to better understand and act in the world?
To answer these questions, my research focuses on model-driven optical flow estimation. This approach jointly reasons about the motion itself and additional effects related to motion (such as motion blur or the 3D geometry of a scene), in order to better constrain the motion estimation problem.
In 2014, I spent a summer at Adobe Research with Eli Shechtman, working on temporal interpolation of videos.
Before coming to MPI, I obtained a Diploma of Engineering (equivalent to a Master's degree) in Computer Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, and wrote my thesis with Pawan Sinha at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology on remote eye tracking. During my undergraduate, I also spent a summer with Geoffrey Chase at the Centre for Bioengineering in Christchurch, New Zealand, working on automatic breast cancer detection from surface motion.