About Me
At the age of 10 I was gifted my first PC which included a Basic compiler. I’ve been coding ever since.. Currently I am a PhD student at the University of Crete, expecting to graduate in summer 2021.
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Publications/Projects
Bautembach, D., Oikonomidis, I., Kyriazis, N., & Argyros, A. (2020, July). Faster and Simpler SNN Simulation with Work Queues. In 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
“Spice” is a state of the art spiking neural network simulator written in C++ and CUDA. It
- is up to 3x faster than the competition,
- allows you to specify your own models through a modern and intuitive API (you simply inherit from a model base class and override callbacks),
- builds out of the box without any 3rd-party dependencies (apart from CUDA), and
- does not involve any proprietary compilation steps or domain-specific languages.
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Bautembach, D., Oikonomidis, I., & Argyros, A. (2018, June). A Comparative Study of Matrix Completion and Recovery Techniques for Human Pose Estimation. In Proceedings of the 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (pp. 23-30).
We estimate human poses by treating them as missing/incomplete rows in a “pose database” matrix and calculating missing entries via matrix completion.
Chen, J., Bautembach, D., & Izadi, S. (2013). Scalable real-time volumetric surface reconstruction. ACM Transactions on Graphics (ToG), 32(4), 1-16.
KinectFusion is a well-known 3D scanner powered by Microsoft’s Kinect camera. It has recently found its way into the official Kinect for Windows SDK. While KinectFusion produces very high-quality scans in real-time, it is limited to relatively small spaces.
In this paper we extend KinectFusion with a sparse data structure and streaming, allowing us to scan areas of virtually infinite size while maintaining the quality and performance of the original algorithm.
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Unpublished BSc thesis
Voxels date back 20 years. They have many advantages over polygon meshes. However, they always suffered form the lack of a hardware-accelerated rendering pipeline and the infeasiblity of animating them. I tackled this age-old computer graphics problem in my BSc thesis. The (GPU-accelerated) animation technique I developed enables:
- Skeletal animation of voxels models
- Rendering of mixed polygon- and voxel-based content.
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Experience
Bautembach Consulting
Founder
2014
Founded a startup with the goal to bring realtime 3D reconstruction to mobile phones, which ultimately failed. After bankrupting we open-sourced our protoype.
Consulted VRC on developing their 3D scanning booth “Shun’X”.
Research areas:
- Replacing polygon meshes with volumetric representations to unify the game content creation pipeline (combine modelling, texturing, animation into a single workflow).
- Non-rigid 3D reconstruction as an alternative to performance capture.
Developed cutscene animation tools for CINEBOX®, a film preproduction software based on the CRYENGINE.
Microsoft Research
Researcher
2012 - 2013
Scaled KinectFusion to scenes of arbitrary size.
Authored “FuSci”, a non-invasive foliage measurement software for the University of Cambridge’s biology department.
Designed a task planning software (“Maschinenbelegung”) for a local fulfillment service in Hamburg.
Created personal and commercial webistes.
Education
University of Crete
PhD Computer Science
2015 - present
Area of specialization: Spiking Neural Networks (simulation, multi-GPU parallelization, applications). See publications/projects for more. Expected to graduate in summer 2021.
University of Hamburg
BSc Computer Science
2007 - 2011
In my BSc thesis, tackled the decade-old problem in computer graphics of animating voxels.
Co-developed a realtime strategy game called Ink Wars.