Bernd Bickel

Research Scientist at
Disney Research Zurich

Clausiusstrasse 49
CH-8092 Zürich
Switzerland
Phone +41 44 632 9461
bernd@disneyresearch.com


About me

Publications

Teaching
   
Journals and Conferences 
   
Computational Design of Mechanical Characters

S. Coros*, B. Thomaszewski*, G. Noris, S. Sueda, M. Forberg, B. Sumner, W. Matusik, B. Bickel (*joint 1st authors)
To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2013), vol. 32, no. 3, July 2013.

[Project Page]

   
Computational Design of Actuated Deformable Characters

M. Skouras, B. Thomaszewski, S. Coros, B. Bickel, M. Gross
To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2013), vol. 32, no. 3, July 2013.

[Project Page]

   
Fabricating Translucent Materials using Continuous Pigment Mixtures

M. Papas, C. Regg, W. Jarosz, B. Bickel, S. Marschner, P. Jackson, W. Matusik, M. Gross
To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2013), vol. 32, no. 3, July 2013.

[Project Page]

   
Physical Face Cloning

B. Bickel, P. Kaufmann, M. Skouras, B. Thomaszewski, D. Bradley, T. Beeler, P. Jackson, S. Marschner, W. Matusik, M. Gross
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2012), vol. 31, no. 3, August 2012.

[Project Page]

   
Fabricating Articulated Characters from Skinned Meshes

M. Bacher, B. Bickel, D. James, H. Pfister
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2012), vol. 31, no. 3, August 2012.

[Project Page]

   
Coupled 3D Reconstruction of Sparse Facial Hair and Skin

T. Beeler, B. Bickel, G. Norris, S. Marschner, P. Beardsley, R. Sumner, M. Gross
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2012), vol. 31, no. 3, August 2012.

[Project Page]

   
crdbrd: Shape Fabrication by Sliding Planar Slices

K. Hildebrand, B. Bickel, M. Alexa
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2012), 31(2), 2012.

[PDF] [Project Page]

   
Computational Design of Rubber Balloons

M. Skouras, B. Thomaszewski, B. Bickel, M. Gross
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2012), 31(2), 2012.

[Project Page]

   
Data-Driven Estimation of Cloth Simulation Models

E. Miguel, D. Bradley, B. Thomaszewski, B. Bickel, W. Matusik, M. Otaduy, S. Marschner
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2012), 31(2), 2012.

[Project Page]

   
High-Quality Passive Facial Performance Capture using Anchor Frames

T. Beeler, F. Hahn, D. Bradley, B. Bickel, P. Beardsley, C. Gotsman, R. Sumner, M. Gross
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2011), vol. 30, no. 3, August 2011.

[Project Page]

   
Design and Fabrication of Materials with Desired Deformation Behavior

B. Bickel, M. Bacher, M. A. Otaduy, H. R. Lee, H. Pfister, M. Gross, W. Matusik
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2010), vol. 29, no. 3, July 2010.

[Project Page]

   
High-Quality Single-Shot Capture of Facial Geometry

T. Beeler, B. Bickel, P. Beardsley, B. Sumner, M. Gross
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2010), vol. 29, no. 3, July 2010.

[Project Page]

   
Subsurface scattering using splat-based diffusion in point-based rendering

H.J. Kim, B. Bickel, M. Gross, S.M. Choi
Science China Information Science, April 2010, 53: 1–9

[PDF]

   
Capture and Modeling of Non-Linear Heterogeneous Soft Tissue

B. Bickel, M. Baecher, M. Otaduy, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, M. Gross
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2009), vol. 28, no. 3, August 2009

[PDF] [Video] [Presentation PPT]

   
Pose-Space Animation and Transfer of Facial Details

B. Bickel, M. Lang, M. Botsch, M. Otaduy, M. Gross
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (Dublin, Ireland, July 7-9, 2008)

[PDF] [Video]

   

Texturing Internal Surfaces from a Few Cross-Sections

N. Pietroni, M. Otaduy, B. Bickel, F. Ganovelli, M. Gross
Proceedings of Eurographics (Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2007), Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 637-644

[PDF]

   
Multi-Scale Capture of Facial Geometry and Motion

B. Bickel, M. Botsch, R. Angst, W. Matusik, M. Otaduy, H. Pfister, M. Gross
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2007), vol. 26, no. 3, August 2007

[PDF] [Video] [Presentation PPT] [Data available upon request]

   
Adaptive Simulation of Electrical Discharges

B. Bickel, M. Wicke, M. Gross
VMV 2006, Aachen, Germany, November 22-24, 2006

[PDF] [Video 3D lightning] [Video raising arc]

   
Implementation Sketch: Processing and Editing of Faces using a Measurement-Based Skin Reflectance Model

B. Bickel, T. Weyrich, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, C. Donner, C. Tu, J. McAndless, J. Lee, A. Ngan, H. W. Jensen, M. Gross
Sketch ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, Boston, USA, 30 July - 3 August 2006

[PDF]

   
Analysis of Human Faces using a Measurement-Based Skin Reflectance Model

T. Weyrich, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, B. Bickel, C. Donner, C. Tu, J. McAndless, J. Lee, A. Ngan, H. W. Jensen, M. Gross
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2006), vol. 25, no. 3, July 2006

[PDF] [MERL/ETH Skin Reflectance Database]

   
   
Books and Book Chapters 
   
From Sparse Mocap to Highly Detailed Facial Animation

B. Bickel, M. Lang
GPU Computing Gems, Wen-mei W. Hwu (edt), Morgan Kaufmann, 2011, ISBN 9780123849885


Measurement-Based Modeling and Fabrication of Deformable Materials for Human Faces

B. Bickel
ETH Ph.D. Thesis, Nr. 19327, 2010

[ETH Library]


   
Courses, Posters, Demonstrations, Misc 
   
Data-Driven Simulation Methods in Computer Graphics: Cloth, Tissue and Faces

M. Otaduy, B. Bickel, D. Bradley, H. Wang
SIGGRAPH 2012 Course

[Course Page]


Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

J. Pfeil, K. Hildebrand, C. Gremzow, B. Bickel, M. Alexa
SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Emerging Technologies

[Project Page]


Subsurface Scattering in Point-Based Rendering

H.-J. Kim, B. Bickel, M. Gross, S.-M. Choi
Poster Proceedings of the Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Jeju, Korea, October 7-9, 2009), pp. 63-66

[PDF]


MERL / ETH Skin Reflectance Database

The MERL / ETH Skin Reflectance Database is a set of statistics for parameters of the Torrance-Sparrow and Blinn-Phong analytic BRDF models and face albedo. We derived these statistics from measuring skin reflectance of 149 subjects of varying age, gender, and skin type. We are making the collected statistics publicly available to the research community for applications in face synthesis and analysis.

[Database]