Nico Schertler

Dr. Nico Schertler

Senior Software Engineer, KLA

Welcome

I am a software engineer with a research background in computer graphics, 3D scanning, and geometry processing.

CV

since 10/2024 Senior Software Engineer, KLA, Dresden, Germany
03/2020 - 09/2024 Team Manager and Development Engineer, IAV GmbH, Ingolstadt, Germany
02/2019 - 01/2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UBC, Digital Geometry Processing (Alla Sheffer)
10/2014 - 01/2019 Research Associate at TU Dresden, Computer Graphics and Visualization
10/2018 Conferment of doctorate (Dr.-Ing.)
07/2016 - 01/2017 Research visit at New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Daniele Panozzo), Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service
2009 - 2014 Studies of Media Computer Science at TU Dresden

Teaching at TU Dresden

I lectured the following courses:
  • Computer Graphics I (real-time rendering, geometry processing, optimization problems): Winter term 2017
I supervised the practical parts of the following courses:
  • Computer Graphics I: Winter term 2018
  • Computer Graphics II (Implicit surfaces, articulated objects, rigging, skinning, subdivision surfaces, structured light scanning): Summer terms 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Computer Graphics III (physically based rendering): Winter term 2015
  • Research Directions (structured light scanning): Summer term 2015
  • Highly parallel computation of simulations with CUDA and OpenCL (introduction to OpenGL and CUDA interop): Winter terms 2014, 2015
  • Practical courses with focus on mobile AR (summer term 2018), distributed VR games (winter term 2017), AR in fabrication (summer term 2017), cross-scale visualization (winter term 2015)
I TAed the following courses:
  • Introduction to computer graphics: Summer terms 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Scientific Visualization: Winter terms 2011, 2012, 2013
I supervised:
  • 9 undergrad students
  • 2 Master's students
  • 2 PhD students (informally)

Publications

  • Toolökosysteme - Effiziente Entwicklungsprozesse trotz Werkzeugvielfalt

    Nico Schertler, Kai Braunias
    ATZextra 01/2023
    [Springer Professional]

  • PolyFit: Perception-aligned Vectorization of Raster Clip-art via Intermediate Polygonal Fitting

    Edoardo A. Dominici, Nico Schertler, Jonathan Griffin, Shayan Hoshyari, Leonid Sigal, Alla Sheffer
    SIGGRAPH 2020
    Project Page

  • Front2Back: Single View 3D Shape Reconstruction via Front to Back Prediction

    Yuan Yao, Nico Schertler, Enrique Rosales, Helge Rhodin, Leonid Sigal, Alla Sheffer
    CVPR 2020
    [PDF]

  • High-Quality Mesh Generation from 3D Scans for Surface Analysis, Ph.D. Thesis, 2018

    [PDF]

  • Generalized Motorcycle Graphs for Imperfect Quad-Dominant Meshes

    Nico Schertler, Daniele Panozzo, Stefan Gumhold, Marco Tarini
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2018)
    [PDF], [Supplemental], [Code], [Slides]

  • Field-Aligned Online Surface Reconstruction

    Nico Schertler, Marco Tarini, Wenzel Jakob, Misha Kazhdan, Stefan Gumhold, Daniele Panozzo
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2017)
    [PDF], [Supplemental], [Video], [Code], [Slides]

  • Deterministically Defining Chambers in 3D-Scans of Caves

    Nico Schertler, Manfred Buchroithner, Donald McFarlane, Guy van Rentergem, Joyce Lundberg, Stefan Gumhold
    International Congress of Speleology, 2017
    [Paper], [Poster], [Code]

  • Chamber Recognition in Cave Data Sets

    Nico Schertler, Manfred Buchroithner, Stefan Gumhold
    Eurographics 2017
    [PDF], [Video], [Code], [Slides]

  • Visualization of Scanned Cave Data with Global Illumination

    Nico Schertler, Mirko Salm, Joachim Staib, Stefan Gumhold
    Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, 2016
    [PDF] (the definitive version is available at EG DigLib and Wiley Online Library), [Slides]

  • Towards Globally Optimal Normal Orientations for Large Point Clouds

    Nico Schertler, Bogdan Savchynskyy, Stefan Gumhold
    Computer Graphics Forum, 2016
    [Paper], [Supplementary], [Video], [Code], [Slides]

  • Global Optimality for Streaming Orientation of Point Cloud Normals

    Nico Schertler, Bogdan Savchynskyy, Stefan Gumhold
    Poster on Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2015
    [PDF]

  • Improving JPEG Compression with Regression Tree Fields, Master's Thesis, 2014

    [Website]

  • Emulation eines Mauszeigers zur Präsentationssteuerung an der Powerwall, Bachelor's Thesis, 2012

    [Website]