Tim Rolff
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Tim RolffDoctoral Candidate E-Mail: tim.rolff"AT"uni-hamburg.de Office hours: By arrangement (please send me an e-mail) Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30, Room: F-109 D-22527 Hamburg, Germany |
Short Bio
Tim Rolff is a PhD candidate, Human-Computer Interaction and the Computer Vision group at the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He finished his bachelors' degree in Computational Physics in 2013 and his masters' in Computer Science in 2020.
In his research, he focuses on the prediction of human gaze and gaze events in virtual reality, investigating algorithms for gaze prediction and eye movement analysis. A major emphasis of his work lies on time-to-event prediction of egocentric gaze events using machine learning and deep learning, predicting the “when” and “where” we look in VR. In his spare time, he enjoys working on improving neural radiance fields for VR and Computer Vision.
Research Interests
- Gaze Forecasting
- Time-to-event prediction
- Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)
- Machine Learning
- Computer Graphics
- Virtual Reality
Awards
- “Honorable Mention” Award for the Best Design at the Student Competition at IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2023, Sydney, Australia
Invited Talks (Paper presentations excluded)
- “Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Predicting Future Gaze Events in Virtual Reality”, Gaze Meets ML, 2023, NeurIPS, New Orleans, USA, https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/79300
- "VRS-NeRF: Details into Accelerating Neural Radiance Field Rendering with Variable Rate Shading", A Beginner’s Guide to Neural Rendering - Tutorial, 2023, ISMAR, Sydney, Australia
- “Natural User Interfaces in the Era of Spatial Computing”, CISPA Workshop, 2024, Hamburg, Germany
- "Through the Looking Glass: Predicting Gaze and Gaze Events in VR", 1st PLACES Workshop, 2024, Prato, Italy
Academic Services
- Committee: ETRA2024
- Reviewer: TVCG, ICCV, ETRA2024
Teaching
- Interaktive Computer Grafik (ICG), SoSe 2021 - 2023
- Interaktive Multimedia Systeme (IMMS), WiSe 2020/2021 -2022/ 2023
- Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen (AD) / Formale Grundlagen der Informatik I (FGI I), WiSe 2021/2022 - 2022/2023
- Einführung in die Theoretische Informatik (ETI I) / Formale Grundlagen der Informatik II (FGI II), SoSe 2020 - 2022
- Softwareentwicklung I (SE I)
- Softwareentwicklung II (SE II), SoSe 2023
- Bildverarbeitung (BV), SoSe 2023
Grants Contributions
- “Forecasting, Evoking and Exploiting Eye Movements and Blinks for Redirection Systems (EYERES)", DFG, 2023
- "InteGreatDrones", 2023