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Michael Stengel

Michael joined Nvidia as a Research Scientist in 2017. His research interests include next generation augmented and virtual reality technology, perceptual real-time rendering, and hyperscale graphics systems. He obtained his PhD in 2016 from TU Braunschweig, Germany. His previous research on computational and augmented/virtual reality displays spans eye tracking, gaze-contingent and perceptual rendering, telepresence technology and immersive human-computer interaction at TU Braunschweig, TU Delft and VU Medical Center, Amsterdam.

Research Area(s)
Algorithms and Numerical Methods
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Computer Graphics
Computer Vision
Human Computer Interaction
Real-Time Rendering
VR, AR and Display Technology
Main Field of Interest
Hyperscale Graphics
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9_GCtwUAAAAJ&hl=en

Publications

2023

Live 3D Portrait: Real-Time Radiance Fields for Single-Image Portrait View Synthesis
Alexander Trevithick, Matthew Chan, Michael Stengel, Eric R. Chan, Chao Liu, Zhiding Yu, Sameh Khamis, Manmohan Chandraker, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Koki Nagano
ACM Transactions On Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2023)
AI-Mediated 3D Video Conferencing
Michael Stengel, Koki Nagano, Chao Liu, Matthew Chan, Alex Trevithick, Shalini De Mello, Jonghyun Kim, David Luebke, Amrita Mazumdar, Shengze Wang, Mayoore Jaiswal
ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies 2023

2022

QuadStream: A Quad-Based Scene Streaming Architecture for Novel Viewpoint Reconstruction
Jozef Hladky, Michael Stengel, Nicholas Vining, Bernhard Kerbl, Hans-Peter Seidel, Markus Steinberger
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)

2021

A distributed, decoupled system for losslessly streaming dynamic light probes to thin clients
Michael Stengel, Zander Majercik, Ben Boudaoud, Morgan McGuire
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference

2020

Toward Standardized Classification of Foveated Displays
Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Jonghyun Kim, Trey Greer, Rachel Albert, Michael Stengel, Kaan Akşit, David Luebke
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics “Presented at IEEE VR …

2019

Foveated AR: Dynamically-Foveated Augmented Reality Display
Jonghyun Kim, Youngmo Jeong, Michael Stengel, Kaan Akşit, Rachel Albert, Ben Boudaoud, Trey Greer, Joohwan Kim, Ward Lopes, Zander Majercik, Peter Shirley, Josef Spjut, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke
SIGGRAPH 2019 Technical Paper
Matching Prescription & Visual Acuity: Towards AR for Humans
Jonghyun Kim, Michael Stengel, Jui-Yi Wu, Ben Boudaoud, Josef Spjut, Kaan Akşit, Rachel Albert, Youngmo Jeong, Trey Greer, Ward Lopes, Zander Majercik, Peter Shirley, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke
SIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging Technology
Best in Show Award - Emerging Technology in SIGGRAPH 2019
Near-Eye Display and Tracking Technologies for Virtual and Augmented Reality
George Alex Koulieris, Kaan Akşit, Michael Stengel, Rafał K. Mantiuk, Katerina Mania
Eurographics 2019
NVGaze: An Anatomically-Informed Dataset for Low-Latency, Near-Eye Gaze Estimation
Joohwan Kim, Michael Stengel, Alexander Majercik, Shalini De Mello, David Dunn, Samuli Laine, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke
ACM Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (CHI) 2019