Publications


Journals

Unstructured Video-Based Rendering: Interactive Exploration of Casually Captured Videos

L. Ballan, G. J. Brostow, J. Puwein and M. Pollefeys [PDF] [web] [video] [slides] [bibtex]
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2010), Los Angeles, USA

Conferences

PTZ Camera Network Calibration from Moving People in Sports Broadcasts

J. Puwein, R. Ziegler, L. Ballan, M. Pollefeys [PDF] [video] [bibtex]
WACV 2012, Breckenridge, CO, USA

Image Based Detection of Geometric Changes in Urban Environments

A. Taneja, L. Ballan and M. Pollefeys [PDF] [slides] [bibtex]   (Oral)
ICCV 2011, Barcelona, Spain

Modeling Dynamic Scenes Recorded with Freely Moving Cameras

A. Taneja, L. Ballan and M. Pollefeys [PDF] [bibtex]
ACCV 2010, Queenstown, New Zealand

Marker-less Motion Capture of Skinned Models in a Four Camera Set-up using Optical Flow and Silhouettes

L. Ballan and G. M. Cortelazzo [PDF] [web] [video] [slides] [bibtex]
(Best Paper Award)
3DPVT 2008, Atlanta, GA, USA

Multimodal 3D Shape Recovery from Texture, Silhouette and Shadow Information

L. Ballan and G. M. Cortelazzo [PDF] [bibtex]
3DPVT 2006, Chapel Hill, USA

Efficient 3D Modeling Of Sculptures From Photographs

L. Ballan, N. Brusco and G. M. Cortelazzo [bibtex]
EVA 2006 (The Foremost European Electronic Imaging Events in the Visual Arts), Florence, Italy

3D Passive Shape Recovery from Texture and Silhouette Information

L. Ballan, N. Brusco and G. M. Cortelazzo [PDF] [bibtex]
CVMP 2005 (European Conference on Visual Media Production), London, UK

Passive Reconstruction of High Quality Textured 3D Models of Works of Art

N. Brusco, L. Ballan and G. M. Cortelazzo [PDF] [bibtex]
VAST 2005 (International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archeology and Cultural Heritage), Pisa, Italy

Reports

Acquiring Shape and Motion of Interacting People from Videos

L. Ballan [PDF] [video] [bibtex]
PhD's thesis, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, 2009

Applicazione dei Modelli Deformabili alla Digitalizzazione 3D Passiva

L. Ballan [PDF] (italian)
Master's thesis, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, 2005

Book Chapters

3D Content Creation by Passive Optical Methods

L. Ballan, N. Brusco and G. M. Cortelazzo [PDF] [bibtex]
3D ONLINE MULTIMEDIA AND GAMES: Processing, Visualization and Transmission [Book]
I. Cheng, G.M. Cortelazzo, A. Basu and S.K. Tripathi, World Scientific Publishing, 2008

3D Reconstruction and Video-Based Rendering of Casually Captured Videos

A. Taneja, L. Ballan, J. Puwein, G. J. Brostow and M. Pollefeys [bibtex]
Video Processing and Computational Video [Book]
Daniel Cremers, Marcus A. Magnor, Martin R. Oswald, Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Springer, 2011

Workshops

3D Passive Shape Recovery From Texture And Silhouette Information

Speaker: L. Ballan [PPT]
VIPS, Verona, Italy 2006

Videos

Markerless Motion Capture of Skinned Models

L. Ballan [video]
CVPR 2009