Lukas Murmann

I'm a PhD Candidate at MIT where I am advised by Prof. Fredo Durand. My research focus is on Computer Graphics and Computational Photography.

Updates

• December 2020: Two papers in submission.
• November 2020: Spent my time in lockdown writing a differentiable real-time rendering system that brings a number of advanced graphics features to ML pipelines. I'm looking forward to sharing more details.
• December 2019: Co-authored a paper at NeurIPS 2019
• July 2019: Paper accepted at ICCV 2019
• Summer 2018: I returnd to Google for a third time this Summer, interning in the Cambridge Vision Group with Miki Rubinstein.
• Spring 2018: Canon built a computational bounce flash! It is gratifying to see ideas from our paper appear in a product.
• Summer 2017: I returned to Google for the Summer, working in the Daydream VR team (Seattle). My wonderful hosts were Ricardo Martin-Brualla and Jason Lawrence
• August 2016: Our paper on Computational Bounce Flash was accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016.
• Summer 2016: I interned at Google Research, working with Kevin Chen in the Gcam group.

More about me

Before coming to MIT, I received a MSc in Computer Graphics from UCL and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from TUM.
I'm interested in entrepreneurship. As an undergraduate, I co-founded a company that created and distributed study materials for college students. Since arriving in Cambridge, I have been taking Chinese language classes, first with the MIT language program, then at Harvard, over time reaching advanced proficiency. There still is a long way to go, but learning a language as an adult has been a rewarding journey already. In 2016, served as the co-president of the MIT EECS Graduate Student Association and in 2015 helped organize the EECS visit days for prospective PhD students.

Computer Graphics Research

	Miika Aittala, Prafull Sharma, Lukas Murmann, Adam Yedidia, Gregory Wornell, William Freeman, Fredo Durand "Computational Mirrors: Blind Inverse Light Transport by Deep Matrix Factorization" NeurIPS 2019 project page
	Lukas Murmann, Michael Gharbi, Miika Aittala, Fredo Durand. "A Dataset of Multi-Illumination Images in the Wild" ICCV 2019 project page
	Lukas Murmann, Abe Davis, Jan Kautz, Fredo Durand. "Computational Bounce Flash for Indoor Portraits" ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 project page
	Lukas Murmann. "Relighting for 2D Copy&Paste." Master's Thesis at UCL project page

Other Publications

• Matthias  Kranz,  Lukas  Murmann,  and  Florian  Michahelles.  "Research  in  the  Large: Challenges  for  Large-Scale  Mobile  Application  research" - A Case Study about NFC Adoption using Gamification via an App Store International  Journal  of  Mobile  Human  Computer Interaction  (IJMHCI)  5,  no.  1  (2013):  45-6
• Lukas  Murmann,  Florian  Michahelles,  and  Matthias  Kranz.  "NFC  Heroes-Observing  NFC Adoption  through  a  Mobile  Trading  Card  Game." LARGE  (2012, Workshop):  19

Teaching

• Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant for 6.837 Introduction to Computer Graphics.

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