ECCV 2020 Daily - Thursday

Marcel says it is the new possibilities that arise from this method that excite him the most . He has worked with several SfM and SLAM methods before and is excited to know that by adding weaker constraints, it is still possible. We put it to Marcel that he is very fortunate to be working in this field at this time when it is positively booming. “Yes, I am very lucky that I am here at this point when there are so many resources dedicated to this work. I can learn so much because every year there 2 Oral Presentation 6 “The difficult part is initialization when you need to estimate the relative pose of the cameras.” DAILY T h u r s d a y “His mind is already one step ahead of you and the ideas are popping up everywhere!” are so many new papers and the state of the art is always improving . Just think about all those things that did not work one or two years ago – now, they do. This work is never boring !” Readers of our magazine will know Marcel’s supervisor, Marc Pollefeys , and his work at Microsoft on the HoloLens . How does it feel to be working with such an impressive researcher? “It is exciting! From his work with Microsoft, we have learnt some things that we probably would not have learnt otherwise. They have very smart people who we can collaborate with. When you talk to Marc, you get the impression he immediately understands what you are telling him. His mind is already one step ahead of you and the ideas are popping up everywhere!” Image reconstructions, displayed with their estimated poses and the triangulated point cloud. colmap ours