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Conference papers

	Robust Semantic Segmentation with Superpixel-Mix Franchi, G., Belkhir, N., Ha, M. L., Hu, Y., Bursuc, A., Blanz, V. and Yao, A. In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2021. pdf ; supp
	Neural discriminant analysis for fine-grained classification Ha, M. L. and Blanz, V. In Proc. Int. IEEE Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2020. pdf
	Color Composition Similarity and its Application in Fine-Grained Similarity Ha, M. L., Hosu, V. and Blanz, V. In IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2020. pdf
	Segmentation and Shape Extraction from Convolutional Neural Networks Ha, M. L., Franchi, G., Moeller, M., Kolb, A., Blanz, V. In IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2018. pdf
	Multi-illuminant Intrinsic Dataset Beigpour, S., Ha, M. L., Kunz, S., Kolb, A., Blanz, V. In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2016. pdf
	Lighting Design for Portraits with a Virtual Light Stage Shahlaei, D., Piotraschke, M. and Blanz, V. IEEE Intl. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP 2016), September 2016. pdf
	Automated 3D Face Reconstruction from Multiple Images using Quality Measures Piotraschke, M. and Blanz, V. The IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016. pdf
	Efficient and Robust Inverse Lighting of a Single Face Image using Compressive Sensing Miguel Heredia Conde, Davoud Shahlaei, Volker Blanz, Otmar Loffeld in proceedings of Inverse Rendering Workshop (ICCV 2015), December 2015. pdf
	Realistic Inverse Lighting from a Single 2D Image of a Face, Taken Under Unknown and Complex Lighting Shahlaei, D. and Blanz, V. in proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2015), May 2015. pdf ; video
	Exploration of the Correlations of Attributes and Features in Faces Schumacher, M. and Blanz, V. in proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2015), May 2015. pdf
	Man Made Structure Detection and Verification of Object Recognition in Images for the Visually Impaired Banf, M., Blanz, V. to be published in: Proceedings of Mirage 2013, 6th International Conference on Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques and Applications, in Cooperation with Eurographics Association, June 2013. pdf
	Sonification of Images for the Visually Impaired using a Multi-Level Approach Banf, M., Blanz, V. to be published in: Proceedings of Augmented Human '13 in Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI, March 2013. pdf
	A Modular Computer Vision Sonification Model for the Visually Impaired Banf, M., Blanz, V. In: Proceedings of ICAD 2012 Eighteenth Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, June 2012. pdf ; video
	Computer-suggested Facial Makeup Scherbaum, K., Ritschel T., Hullin M., Thorm�hlen T., Blanz, V., Seidel H.-P. In: Computer. Graph. Forum, Volume 30, Number 2, 2011.
	Subspace Mapping of Noisy Text Documents Soto, A. J., Strickert, M., Vazquez, G. E., and Milios,E. In: Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, May 2011, pp. 377-383.pdf
	Multispectral image characterization by partial generalized covariance Strickert, M., Labitzke B., Kolb, A., and Villmann T. In: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), April 2011, pp. 105-110. preprint pdf; poster pdf
	Partial generalized correlation for hyperspectral data Strickert, M., Labitzke B., Blanz, V. In: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, April 2011, pp.365-372. pdf
	A Morphing-Based Analysis of the Perceptual Distance Metric of Human Faces Gummersbach N. and Blanz, V. In: EACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Vision APGV, 2010. pdf
	Self-Adapting Feature Layers Breuer, P., Blanz, V. In: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2010.pdf
	ON-DEMAND CREATION OF PROCEDURAL CITIES M. Banf, M. Barth, H. Schulze, J. Koch, A. Pritzkau, M. Schmidt, A. Daraban, S. Meister, R. Sandhoefer, V. Sotke, C. Rezk-Salama, A. Kolb In: In Proc. Game and Entertainment Technologies, July 2010.pdf
	Adaptive matrix distances aiming at optimum regression subspaces Strickert, M., Soto, A. J., and Vazquez, G. E. In: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), April 2010, pp. 93-98.pdf
	Example-Based Rendering of Eye Movements. Banf, M., Blanz, V. In: Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 28, Number 2, April 2009 , pp. 659-666(8).pdf
	A Nonlinear Viseme Model for Triphone-Based Speech Synthesis. Bargmann, R., Blanz, V., Seidel, H.-P. In: Proc. Of Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FG 2008.pdf
	Automatic 3D Face Reconstruction from Single Images or Video. Breuer, P., Kim, K.-I., Kienzle, W., Schoelkopf, B., Blanz, V. In: Proc. Of Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FG 2008.pdf
	Fitting a Morphable Model to 3D Scans of Faces. Blanz, V., Scherbaum, K., and Seidel, H.-P. In: Proc. Of Int. Conf. on Computer Vision ICCV 2007.pdf
	Hand Gesture Recognition with a noval IR Time-of-Flight Range Camera -- A pilot study Breuer, P., Eckes, C. and Müller, S. In proc. of Mirage 2007, Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques and Applications, March, 28-30 2007, INRIA Rocquencourt, France, pp. 247-260
	Prediction of Individual Non-Linear Aging Trajectories of Faces, In Computer Graphics K. Scherbaum, M. Sunkel, H.-P. Seidel, and V. Blanz Forum 26(3) Eurographics 2007pdf
	Superresolution Reflectance Fields: Synthesizing Images for Intermediate Light Directions, In Computer Graphics M. Fuchs, H.Lensch, V. Blanz, and H.-P. Seidel Forum 26(3) Eurographics 2007pdf
	Computing Human Faces for Human Viewers: Automated Animation in Photographs and Paintings. V. Blanz In: Int. Conf on Multimodal Interfaces ICMI 06.pdf
	Creating Face Models from Vague Mental Images Blanz, V., Albrecht, I., Haber, J. and Seidel, H.-P. Computer Graphics Forum 25(3) Eurographics 2006, pp.645-654. pdf
	Face Recognition based on a 3D Morphable Model. Blanz, V. Proc. of the 7th Int. Conference of Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp 617-622, 2006 (Invited paper) pdf
	"Learnig-Based Facial Rearticulation Using Streams of 3D Scans." R. Bargmann, V. Blanz, H.-P. Seidel Proceedings og PACIFIC GRAPHICS 2006, to appear
	Detecting acromegaly: Screening for disease with a morphable model. E. Learned-Miller, Q. Lu, A. Paisley, P. Trainer, V.Blanz, K. Dedden and R. E. Miller Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2006, pdf
	Face Recognition based on Frontal Views generated from Non-Frontal Images. Blanz, V., Grother, P. Phillips, J. and Vetter, T. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR 2005. pdf
	Bayesian Relighting. Fuchs, M. Blanz, V., Seidel, H-P. Eurographics Symp. on Rendering EGSR 2005. pdf
	Support Vector Machines for 3D Shape Processing. Steinke, F., Schoelkopf, B. and Blanz, V., Computer Graphics Forum 24(3) Eurographics 2005. pdf
	Object Correspondence as a Machine Learning Problem. Schoelkopf, B, Steinke, F. and Blanz, V., Int. Conf on Machine Learning ICML 2005. pdf
	Perceptual Evaluation of Tone Mapping Operators with Real-World Scenes. Yoshida, A, Blanz, V., Myszkowski, K and Seidel, H-P. IS&T /SPIE Annual Symp. on Electronic Imaging 2005.
	Exchanging Faces in Images, Blanz, V., Scherbaum, K., Vetter, T. and Seidel, H. P. In: Cani, M.-P. and Slater, M. (Eds) Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS 2004, Grenoble, France, 2004. pdf EG2004 Best Paper Award (1st Prize)
	Component-Based Face recognition with 3D Morphable Models, B. Weyrauch, J. Huang, B. Heisele and V. Blanz, IEEE Workshop on Face processing in Video, FPIV04, Washington, D.C., 2004
	A Statistical Method for Robust 3D Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Data. Blanz, V., Mehl, A., Vetter, T. and Seidel, H. P. Int. Symp. on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2004. pdf
	Reanimating Faces in Images and Video, Blanz, V., Basso, C., Poggio, T. and Vetter, T. In: Brunet, P and Fellner, D (Eds) Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2003, Granada, Spain, 2003. pdf EG2003 Best Paper Award (1st Prize)
	Face Identification across Different Poses and Illuminations with a 3D Morphable Model. Blanz, V. and Romdhani, S. and Vetter, T. Proc. of the 5th Int. Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition", pp 202-207, 2002. pdf
	Component-based Face Recognition with 3D Morphable Models, Huang, J., Heisele, B., and Blanz, V. Proc. of the 4th Int. Conf. on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authenticitation Surrey, UK, 2003. pdf
	Face Recognition Using Component-Based SVM Classification and Morphable Models J. Huang, V. Blanz, B. Heisele. In: S.-W. Lee and A. Verri (Eds.): SVM 2002, LNCS 2388, pp.334-341, 2002 Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2002. pdf
	Face Identification by Fitting a 3D Morphable Model using Linear Shape and Texture Error Functions S. Romdhani, V. Blanz, and T. Vetter, Computer Vision - ECCV 2002, May 2002, LNCS 2353, pp. 3-19. pdf
	Memory for atypical and typical objects. F. N. Newell, M. Peskin, H. H. Bülthoff, V. Blanz ECVP 2001 abstract.
	Face Reconstruction from a Small Number of Feature Points. B.W. Hwang, V. Blanz, T. Vetter, and S.W. Lee International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR2000 Barcelona, Spain, pp 842-845, 2000
	A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces. Blanz, V. and Vetter, T. SIGGRAPH'99 Conference Proceedingspdf,ps.gz
	On the other-side of the mean: Perceiving the dissimilarity of faces. O'Toole, AJ Blanz, V., Vetter T., Wild, H. A. 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Nov. 1999, Los Angeles CA.
	3D-Reconstruction of Faces: Combining Stereo with Class-Based Knowledge. C. Wallraven, V. Blanz, and T. Vetter Mustererkennung 1999, W. Foerstner, J. Buhmann, A. Faber, and P. Faber (eds.) Springer, pp405-412.
	Estimating Coloured 3D Face Models from Single Images: An Example Based Approach. Vetter, T. and Blanz, V. Computer Vision ECCV'98 --Freiburg, Germany, pp499-513, Springer, LNCS 1407. pdf
	Generalization to Novel Views from a Single Face Image. Vetter, T. and Blanz, V. 3D Image Analysis and Synthesis'97 --Erlangen, pp43-50, infix, Sankt Augustin.
	Comparison of View-Based Object Recognition Algorithms Using Realistic 3D Models. V. Blanz, B. Schoelkopf, H.H. Buelthoff, C. Burges, V. Vapnik and T. Vetter, ICANN96, Bochum pp 251-256 Springer, LNCS 1112 pdf, ps.gz

Journal Articles

	3D Morphable Face Models -- Past, Present and Future Egger, B. and Smith, W.A.P and Tewari, A. and Wuhrer, S. and Zollhoefer, M. and Beeler, T. and Bernard, F. and Bolkart, T. and Kortylewski, A. and Romdhani, S. and Theobalt, C. and Blanz, V. and Vetter, T. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2020, SIGGRAPH 2021
	Deep Convolutional Neural Networks in the Face of Caricatures Hill, Matthew and Parde, Connor and Castillo, Carlos and Colon, Ivette and Ranjan, Rajeev and Chen, Jun-Cheng and Blanz, Volker and O`To ole, Alice Nature Machine Intelligence, Vol 1, pp 522-529, November 2019 url, arxiv
	Hierarchical Bayesian Inverse Lighting of Portraits with a Virtual Light Stage Shahlaei, Davoud and Blanz, Volker IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2019 url
	Hierarchical Representations of Viewpoint and Illumination in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Trained for Face Identification M Hill, C Parde, JC Chen, C Castillo, V Blanz, A O'Toole Journal of Vision 18 (10), 353-353, 2018 url
	PictureSensation--a mobile application to help the blind explore the visual world through touch and sound Banf, Michael and Mikalay, Ruben and Watzke, Baris and Blanz, Volker In: Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, 3, 2016. url
	Hallucination of facial details from degraded images using 3D face models Schumacher, M., Piotraschke, M. and Blanz, V. In: Image and Vision Computing, 40, pp 49–64, 2015. url
	Which Facial Profile Do Humans Expect After Seeing a Frontal View? � A Comparison with a Linear Face Model Schumacher, M. and Blanz, V. In: ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 9(3), 2012 (in print).
	Exploiting prior knowledge and gene distances in the analysis of tumor expression profiles with extended Hidden Markov Models Seifert, M., Strickert, M., Schliep, A., and Grosse I. Bioinformatics, 2011. URL
	Mapping of quantitative trait loci associated with protein expression variation in barley grains Witzel, K., Pietsch, C., Strickert, M., Matros, A., Röder, M. S., Weschke, W., Wobus U., and Mock, H. P. Molecular Breeding, 27(3), pp 301-314, 2011. URL
	Pose-Insensitive Nose detection in TOF-Scans Nichau, M. and Blanz, V. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 114(12), pp 1346-1352, 2010.
	Neural Correlates of Shape and Surface Reflectance Information in Individual Faces Jiang, F., Dricot, L. Blanz, V., Goebel, R, Rossion, B. Neuroscience 163(4):1078-1091, 2009.
	Recognizing an individual face: 3D shape contributes earlier than 2D surface reflectance information Caharel, S., Jiang, F., Blanz, V., Rossion, B. NeuroImage, 47, 1809-1818, 2009.
	Three-dimensional information in face representation revealed by identity aftereffects Jiang, F., Blanz, V. & O'Toole, A. J. Psychological Science, 20(3), 318-325. (2009)pdf
	Towards Sociable Virtual Humans: Multimodal Recognition of Human Input and Behavior Eckes, Christian; Biatov, Konstantin; Hülsken, Frank; Köhler, Joachim; Breuer, Pia; Branco, Pedro and Encarnacao, L. Miguel The International Journal of Virtual Reality, Volume 6, Number 4, S. 21-30, Dezember 2007pdf
	The role of familiarity in three-dimensional view transferability of face identity adaptation. F. Jiang, V. Blanz and A. J. O'Toole Vision Research 47(4) 525-531, 2007.pdf
	Adaptive sampling of reflectance fields. M. Fuchs, V. Blanz, H. Lensch, H.-P. Seidel ACM Trans. Graph. 26(2): (2007)
	Testing Tone Mapping Operators with Human-Perceived Reality Akiko Yoshida, Volker Blanz, Karol Myszkowski, and Hans-Peter Seidel. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 16(1), pp. 013004-1 - 013004-14, Springfield, VA, USA, 2007.pdf
	Probing the Visual Representation of Faces With Adaption. A View From the Other Side of the Mean. Jiang, F., Blanz, V., O'Toole, A.J. Psychological Science 17(6) pp 493-500, 2006. pdf
	Evaluation of a Shape-Based Model of Human Face Dicrimination Using fMRI and Behavorial Techniques Jiang, X., Rosen, E., Zeffiro, T., VanMeter, J., Blanz V. and Riesenhuber M. In: Neuron 50, 159-172 (2006).
	Reflectance from Images: A Model-Based Approach for Human Faces. Fuchs, M., Blanz, V., Lensch, H., and Seidel, H-P. IEEE Trans on Visualization and Comp. Graphics 11(3), pp 296-305, 2005
	Biogeneric Tooth - A New Mathematical Representation for Tooth Morphology in Case of Lower First Molars. Mehl, A., Blanz, V. and Hickel, R. Eur. J.Oral Sci 113(5)449, 2005.
	A New Approach for Automatic Reconstruction of Occlusal Surfaces with the Biogeneric Tooth Model. Blanz, V. and Vetter, T. Mehl, A. Blanz, V. In: Int. J. Comp. Dent 8, pp 13-25, 2005
	Was ist der "Durchschnittszahn"? - Ein mathematischer Ansatz fuer die automatische Berechnung einer repraesentativen Kauflaeche. ? - Mehl, A. Blanz, V. Hickel, R. Dtsch. Zahnaerztl. Z (in print) 2005
	Face Recognition Based on Fitting a 3D Morphable Model Blanz, V. and Vetter, T. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.25 no. 9, pp 1063 - 1074, 2003. pdf
	Prototype-referenced shape encoding revealed by high-level aftereffects. Leopold, D. A., O'Toole, A. J., Vetter, T. and Blanz, V. Nature Neuroscience 4(1), pp 89-94, 2001 pdf
	On the other side of the mean: The perception of dissimilarity in human faces V. Blanz, A. J. O'Toole, T. Vetter, H. A. Wild, Perception 29, pp.885-891, 2000
	What object attributes determine canonical views? V. Blanz, M.J. Tarr, H.H Buelthoff, Perception 1999, volume 28, pp 575-599
	Three-dimensional shape and two-dimensional surface textures of human faces: The role of "averages" in attractiveness and age. O'Toole, A. J., Price, T., Vetter, T., Bartlett, J. C. & Blanz,V. Image and Vision Computing Journal. 18, pp 9-19, 1999.
	Three-dimensional shape and two-dimensional surface reflectance contributions to face recognition: An application of three-dimensional morphing. O'Toole, A. J., Vetter, T. & Blanz, V. (1999). Vision Research, 39, 3145-3155.
	To what extent do unique parts influence recognition across changes in viewpoint? Tarr, M. J., & Buelthoff, H. H., Zabinski, M., & Blanz, V. (1997). Psychological Science, 8(4), 282-289.

Technical Reports

	Automatic 3D Face Reconstruction from Single Images or Video. Breuer, P., Kim, K.I., Kienzle, W., Blanz, V., and Schölkopf, B. Max-Planck-Institut für Biologische Kybernetik - Technical Report No. 160
	Reflectance from Images: A Model-Based Approach for Human Faces. Fuchs, M., Blanz, V., Lensch, H., and Seidel, H-P. Max-Planck Institut Informatik MPI-I-2005-4-001 Research Report 2005
	Generating Frontal Views from Single, Non-Frontal Images, Blanz, V. and Vetter, T. In: Face Recognition Vendor Test 2002, Technical Appendices, Nat. Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), NISTIR 6965, Appendix O, 2003. pdf
	Face Recognition Based on 3D Shape Estimation from Single Images. Blanz, V. Vetter, T., Computer Graphics Technical Report No.2, University of Freiburg, 2002. pdf ps.gz
	Reconstructing the Complete 3D Shape of Faces from Partial Information. Blanz, V. Vetter, T., Computer Graphics Technical Report No.1, University of Freiburg, 2001. pdf ps.gz

Other Publications

	A Learning-Based High-Level Human Computer Interface for Face Modeling and Animation. Blanz, V. Artifical Intelligence for Human Computing 2007: Springer LNAI 4517, pp 296-315
	Morphable models for training a component-based face recognition system. Heisele B., Blanz, V. In: Face Processing - Advanced Modeling and Methods, Eds. W. Zhao and R. Chellappa pp 439-462, 2006.
	Creating Face Models from Vague Mental Images. Albrecht, I., Blanz, V., Haber, J. and Seidel, H-P. Siggraph Sketch 2005
	Morphable Models of Faces. Romdhani, S., Blanz, V., Basso, C. and Vetter, T. In: Handbook of Face Recognition, Eds. Li, S., and Jain, A. pp 217-245, 2005.
	Haber J., Blanz V., Magnenat-Thalmann N, Terzopoulos D. Facial Modeling and Animation - Eurographics 2003 Tutorial Notes, September 2003.
	Haber J., Magnenat-Thalmann N, Terzopoulos D., Vetter T., Blanz V., Kaehler K. Facial Modeling and Animation - Eurographics 2002 Tutorial Notes, September 2002.
	Automatische Rekonstruktion der dreidimensionalen Form von Gesichtern aus einem Einzelbild.V. Blanz, Dissertation, Universität Tübingen, 2000.