I am a tenure-track junior professor (eq. assistant professor) for Visual Computing at the Institute of Computer Science of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany.
Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France in the GraphDeco group with George Drettakis.
I completed my PhD under the supervision of Marc Stamminger at the Chair of Visual Computing of the
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Research interest in computer graphics, perceptual rendering, computer vision and machine learning.
Current primary focus in neural rendering, inverse rendering, multimodal reconstruction and novel view synthesis.
Representative papers are highlighted.
Extracting features of feed-forward geometry transformers (like VGGT) into a consolidated grid-structured latent space and directly decoding a 3D representation.
A performance survey, analysis, integration, and extension of Gaussian Splatting training optimizations, leading up to a 5× speedup in training time without loss of quality.
Gaussian Splatting for multi-spectral images (e.g. red-edge, near-infrared) using a joint color-band feature representation and a neural emission function.
Large-scale radiance field rendering with neural point octrees for hierarchical point rendering, enabling efficient level of detail selection and real-time rendering of complex scenes.
Exploration of the integration of multi-spectral capturings (e.g. near-infrared) in Gaussian Splatting systems through investigating training regimes.
(*) Denotes equal contribution.
A tiled splatting approach for fast depth of field rendering.
Teaching
Information on theses, seminars, and lectures.
Thesis
I supervise Bachelor's and Master's theses in computer graphics, neural rendering, and 3D computer vision at the University of Würzburg.
I mainly supervise in computer science related programs, including Games Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Human-Computer-Interaction, Computer Science and Sustainability as well as Computer Science for Aerospace.
If you are interested, feel free to reach out via
linus (dot) franke (at) uni-wuerzburg (dot) de.
Open topics:
New topics are added regularly, please reach out if you are interested to receive a list of currently open thesis topics.
If you have an idea for a thesis topic that you would like to pursue, please feel free to reach out with your idea (in the form of a half page proposal) and your transcript of records.
Seminar
Similar to the thesis supervision, I supervise seminar projects in computer graphics, neural rendering, and 3D computer vision at the University of Würzburg.
If you are interested, feel free to reach out via linus (dot) franke (at) uni-wuerzburg (dot) de with a half page proposal and your transcript of records.