Note: Thomas Nestmeyer has transitioned from the institute (alumni).
Experience
2019-now: Computer Vision Engineer and later Group Lead at Hyundai Mobis Technical Center Europe, Frankfurt, Germany
Traffic sign recognition, ML-data lead, Parking Image Recognition, Unsupervised Learning of depth, egomotion, optical flow, camera calibration.
2018-2019: Research Intern and later Researcher at Facebook, Pittsburgh, USA
Continuing to work on intrinsic images in the Oculus Research Team.
2017-2018: Teaching Assistant at the Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Germany
Summer term: Probabilistic Inference; Winter term: Algorithms and Data Structures
2012 - 2014: Research Assistant and later Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Working in the field of multiple robot systems on "Decentralized Simultaneous Multi-target Exploration with Continual Connectivity Maintenance"
2005 - 2012: Teaching Assistant at the Eberhard-Kars-Universität Tübingen, Germany
Computer Engineering (2 semesters), Mathematics for Computer Scientists (4 semesters), Theoretical Computer Science (2 semesters), Algebraical and Combinatorial Applications in Computer Science (1 semester), Pre-Course Mathematics (2 weeks per course, 6 courses)
2006 - 2011: Research Assistant at the Eberhard-Kars-Universität Tübingen, Germany
Chairs of Computer Engineering (1 year), Discrete Mathematics (1 year), Formal Languages (0.5 years)
Education
2014 - 2018: Ph.D. Student
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Perceiving Systems Department, Tübingen, Germany
- 2021 PhD in Computer Science from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
PhD Thesis "Intrinsic Images and their Applications in Intelligent Systems"
2004 – 2013: Diploma Student
Computer Science and Mathematics - Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
- 2013 Diploma in Computer Science from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
Diploma Thesis "Decentralized Multi-target Exploration and Connectivity Maintenance with a Multi-robot System" at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany - 2010 Visiting Student
Computer Science - University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand - 2007 Pre-Diploma in Mathematics from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
2003 - 2004: Military Service
German Air Force in Roth and Landsberg, Germany
1994 – 2003: High School Student
Gymnasium Neckartenzlingen in Neckartenzlingen, Germany
Research Interest
I work on inferring physical properties from images, specifically decomposing them into their intrinsic layers, meaning mostly its reflectance and shading components. Knowing this information is beneficial in many computer vision areas. Especially when working on Augmented Reality (AR), this is an essential intermediate step.