Slobodan Ilic, Ph.D.

Research Field:

- Computer Vision, Computer Graphics and Applied Mathematics

Research Topics:

- Physically based modelling
- Face modelling, animation, detection and tracking
- 3D surface reconstruction  from monocular and multiple-cameras
- Deformable objects - modelling and tracking

Biography

Slobodan Ilic is currently a senior research scientist at the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Berlin, Germany. He was previously postdoctoral fellow at Computer Vision Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland, where he received his PhD.

Professional Activities

Slobodan Ilic is regularly serving as a technical program committee for the three top computer vision conferences: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), International Conference in Computer Vision (ICCV) and European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV). His is also actively serving as reviewer for IEEE PAMI and IJCV, two highest ranked Computer Vision journals. In addition Slobodan is scientific advisor on several Innovation Development projects of Deutsche Telekom AG.

Teaching

Slobodan used to teach Computer Graphics and Advanced Topics in Computer Vision at the undergraduate and graduate level at EPFL, Switzerland. Currently, he is not involved in teaching at TUB.

Address

Quality and Usability Lab
Image and Vision Computing Group
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
TU Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
D-10587 Berlin, Germany

E-mail: Slobodan.Ilic @ tu-berlin.de [2]
Web: http://www.deutsche-telekom-laboratories.de/~slobodan [3]

[Translate to English:] PhD Thesis

• llic S., Implicit Meshes: Unifying Implicit and Explicit

  Surface Representations for 3D Reconstruction and Tracking. PhD Thesis, EPF Lausanne,

  Computer Vision Laboratory,  Lausanne, May

  2005, Switzerland

Journal Papers

• M.Salzmann,

  J.Pilet, S.Ilic and P.Fua, "Surface Deformation Models for Non-Rigid 3-D

  Shape Recovery", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine

  Inteligence (PAMI), Nov 2006

• S. Ilic, M.

  Salzmann and P. Fua. "Implicit Meshes for Effective Silhouette

  Handling", International Journal of Computer Vision, 2006

• S. Ilic and

  P. Fua, "Implicit Meshes for Surface Reconstruction", Transactions on

  Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 28, Nr. 2, pp. 328--333,

  February 2006

Refereed Conference Papers

• S.Ilic,

  P.Fua, Non-Linear Beam Model for Tracking Large Deformations. IEEE International Conference on

  Computer Vision, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October

  2007

• S.Ilic, Comparing

  Timoshenko Beam to Energy Beam for Fitting Noisy Data. Asian Converence in

  Computer Vision, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2007

• Salzmann

  M., Ilic S., Fua P., Physically Valid Shape Parameterization for Monocular 3--D

  Deformable Surface Tracking. In  British Machine Vision Conference(BMVC05), Oxford, UK, September 2005

• Ilic S.,

  Salzmann M., Fua P., Implicit Meshes Make for Better Silhouettes. In IEEE

  Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR05), San

  Diego, CA, June 2005, USA

• M. Dimitrijevic,

  S. Ilic, and P. Fua, Accurate Face Models from Uncalibrated and Ill-Lit Video

  Sequences. In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern

  Recognition(CVPR04), Washington, DC, June 2004, USA

• Ilic S.,

  Fua P., "Generic Deformable Implicit Mesh Models for Automated

  Reconstruction",  In ICCV workshop on Higher-Level Knowledge in 3D

  Modelling and Motion Analysis, Nice, October 20-17, 2003, France

• Ilic S.,

  Fua P., "Implicit Mesh Models for Modeling and Reconstruction", In

  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR03), Madison,

  Wisconsin, June 16-22, USA

• Ilic S.,

  Fua P., "Using Dirichlet Free Form Deformation to Fit Deformable Models to

  Noisy 3D Data", In European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV02), Copenhagen May 27-30, Denmark

Other Publications

• S.Ilic,

  "Using Subdivision Surfaces for 3-D Reconstruction from Noisy Data", In

  Deform06 workshop of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Edinburgh, Sep

  2006

• M.

  Salzmann, S. Ilic and P. Fua, "Parameterizing Deformable Surfaces for

  Monocular 3--D Tracking", Technical Reports in Computer and Communication

  Sciences – IC/2005/020, 2005

• S. Ilic,

  M.Salzmann and P. Fua, "Implicit Meshes Make for Better Silhouettes" Technical

  Reports in Computer and Communication Sciences – IC/2004/92, Nov 2004

• S. Ilic and

  P. Fua, "Implicit Meshes for Surface Reconstruction" Technical

  Reports in Computer and Communication Sciences - IC/2004/25, March 2004

• Ilic S.,

  Fua P., "From Explicit to Implicit Surfaces for Visualization, Animation

  and Modeling", In ISPRS Workshop on Visualization and Animation of

  Reality-based 3D objects, February 24-28, 2003, Tarasp-Vulpera, Switzerland

• M.

  Dimitrijevic, S. Ilic, and P. Fua, "Accurate Face Models from Uncalibrated

  and Ill-Lit Video Sequences" Technical Reports in Computer and

  Communication Sciences - IC/2004/05, Dec 2004

• Ilic, S.

  " Annual PhD Thechnical Report for year 2002", Computer Vision Lab,

  EPFL, March 2003

• Ilic, S.

  " Annual PhD Thechnical Report for year 2001", Virtual Reality Lab,

  EPFL, March 2002

• Ilic, S.

  "Well Textured Avatars", Doctoral School Project Report, Virtual

  Reality Lab, EPFL, June 2000

• Ilic S., Stankovic. T., Velickovic. M, "Library class hierarchy for digital

  image processing", ETRAN 98, Vrnjacka Banja Jun 2-6, pp. 188-191

• Ilic S.,

  Petkovic M., "Shortest path graph algorithms", YUINFO 98, Kopaonik

  March 23-27, pp.19-24