Ingo Feldmann is Head of Immersive Media & Communication group at Vision & Imaging Technologies department.
His current research interests cover the topics of 3D acquisition, analysis, representation, and semantic understanding of real-world environments, objects, and persons. He is working in the field of future Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality applications and Volumetric Video for media, education, industry, and construction.
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Biography
Ingo Feldmann, is head of Immersive Media & Communication group at Vision & Imaging Technologies department. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 2000 respectively. Since September 2000, he is with Fraunhofer HHI, where he was engaged in various national, European and international research activities and projects. His current research interests cover the topics of 3D acquisition, analysis, representation, and semantic understanding of real-world environments, objects, and persons. He is working in the field of future Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality applications and Volumetric Video for media, industry, and construction. For his scientific work, Ingo Feldmann received several awards, such as the Joseph-von-Fraunhofer Prize entitled by "Realistic people in virtual worlds - A movie as a true experience", which he received together with his colleagues O. Schreer and P. Kauff in May 2019. He published more than 70 conference and journal papers, book chapters and patents and continuously acts as reviewer for various conferences.
Publications
Awards and Patents
Awards
Innovation Price for Information Technology in Media to Decai Chen, Peter Eisert, Ingo Feldmann, Arne Finn, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Kauff, Wieland Morgenstern, Ralf Schäfer, Oliver Schreer, Marcus Zepp for their team achievement of "3D Human Body Reconstruction (3D HBR), a Base Technology for Volumetric Scanning" received at 30.FKTG Fachtagung (German Society for Electronic Media), Mainz, Germany, June 2024.
Best Poster Award to Sylvain Renault, Ingo Feldmann, Lieven Raes, Jurgen Silence, Oliver Schreer for their paper "Dynamic Exposure Visualization of Air Quality Data with Augmented Reality" published at 10th Int. Conf. on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, Anger, France, May 2024.
Best Paper Award to Decai Chen, Markus Worchel, Ingo Feldmann, Oliver Schreer, Peter Eisert for their paper "Accurate human body reconstruction for volumetric video" published at Int. Conf. on 3D Immersion 2021, Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 2021.
Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize 2019, Ingo Feldmann, Dr. Oliver Schreer, Peter Kauff, "Realistic people in virtual worlds - A movie as a true experience"; Munic, Germany, May 8, 2019.
Advanced Imaging Society (AIS) Technology Award 2017, Ingo Feldmann, Dr. Oliver Schreer, Peter Kauff, Christian Weissig, Danny Tatzelt, Thomas Ebner, Sylvain Renault, "3D Human Body Reconstruction"; Los Angeles, CA, USA, January 16, 2018.
Nomination for the Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Price 2017 Oliver Schreer. Ingo Feldmann, Thomas Ebner, Sylvain Renault, Peter, Kauff, D. Brückner (UFA Lab), E. Feiler (UFA Lab), F. Mrongowius (UFA Lab), F. Govaere (UFA Lab), "Volumetrisches Video - Schlüsseltechnologien für den begehbaren Film (Volumetric video - key technology for the walkable movie)"; 10 selecetd nominations out of 134 submissions, Berlin, Germany, December 1, 2017.
Distinguished Paper Award of SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers 2017 to Thomas Ebner, Ingo Feldmann, Sylvain Renault, and Oliver Schreer for their paper "Dynamic Real World Objects in Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications" published at SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, Los Angeles, USA, May 2017.
Lumiére Best Paper Award of the International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society 2014 to S. Ebel, W. Waizenegger, M. Reinhardt, O. Schreer and I. Feldmann for their paper “Visibility-driven Patch Group Generation,” published at IEEE International Conference on 3D Imaging (IC3D), Liege, Belgium, December 2014.
Patents
US 9521362 View Rendering for the provision of Virtual Eye Contact Using Special Geometric Constraints in Combination with Eye-Tracking