Moritz Kappel
Machine Learning EngineerMy research focuses on advancing neural scene reconstruction and photorealistic rendering through innovations in computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning.
Projects
D-NPC: Dynamic Neural Point Clouds for Non-Rigid View Synthesis from Monocular Video
Moritz Kappel,
Florian Hahlbohm,
Timon Scholz,
Susana Castillo,
Christian Theobalt,
Martin Eisemann,
Vladislav Golyanik,
Marcus Magnor
Eurographics Conference (EG) 2025
Fast Non-Rigid Radiance Fields from Monocularized Data
Moritz Kappel,
Vladislav Golyanik,
Susana Castillo,
Christian Theobalt,
Marcus Magnor
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2024
High-Fidelity Neural Human Motion Transfer from Monocular Video
Moritz Kappel,
Vladislav Golyanik,
Mohamed Elgharib,
Jann-Ole Henningson,
Hans-Peter Seidel,
Susana Castillo,
Christian Theobalt,
Marcus Magnor
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021
Curriculum Vitae
Positions
- 2025 - present: Machine Learning Engineer
go AVA GmbH, Essen, Germany - 2019 - 2025: Research Scientist
Computer Graphics Lab, TU Braunschweig, Germany - 2016: Student Research Assistant
Computer Graphics Lab, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Education
- October 2025: PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Computer Science
Under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marcus Magnor
Thesis title: "Neural Reconstruction and Rendering of Dynamic Real-World Content from Monocular Video"
TU Braunschweig, Germany - November 2018: M.Sc. in Computer Science
Master thesis: "Learning Optical Flow from Long-Exposure Images"
TU Braunschweig, Germany - May 2016: B.Sc. in Computer Science
Bachelor thesis: "Dense Image-Correspondences for Reflecting Surfaces"
TU Braunschweig, Germany - July 2012: Abitur
Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium
Bonn, Germany
