Portrait of Stefan Schulz

Open to research internships

Stefan Schulz

PhD Candidate in Computer Graphics & Vision

University of Bonn · advised by Prof. Matthias Hullin & Prof. Reinhard Klein

I'm a second-year PhD candidate at the University of Bonn working on Differentiable Scene Representations for 4D/6D Capture, Reconstruction and Synthesis.

My work aims to create scalable, high-fidelity, real-time algorithms for acquiring and generating real-world 3D content, with applications in robotics and AR/VR. My current focus is compression and streaming of 4D Gaussian Splatting. If you're interested in this direction, feel free to send me a note.

Outside of work you'll find me on hiking trails with a camera (mostly landscape photography), practicing on my Hummingbird Studio guitar, or reading a sci-fi novel.

Computer Graphics

  • Neural rendering
  • Relighting
  • Physically based materials
  • Realistic synthesis

Computer Vision

  • NeRFs
  • 3D/4D Gaussian Splatting
  • Scene compression
  • Volumetric streaming
  • 3D reconstruction
  • Novel view synthesis

Capture Stages

  • Multi-view capture
  • Lighting
  • Generative video editing
  • Digital twins & avatars

Highlighted = me · * = equal contribution

  1. ICLR 2025

    Metamizer: a Versatile Neural Optimizer for Fast and Accurate Physics Simulations

    Nils Wandel, Stefan Schulz, Reinhard Klein

    A neural optimizer that iteratively solves a wide range of physical systems, from cloth animation to fluid dynamics, with high accuracy and without retraining.

  2. MDPI Sensors 2024

    Deep Interpolation of Remote Sensing Land Surface Temperature Data with Partial Convolutions

    Florian Huber*, Stefan Schulz*, Volker Steinhage

    Satellite land-surface-temperature data is often occluded by clouds. We combine it with ground-station weather data and use partial convolutions for temporal interpolation and extrapolation of the missing measurements.

  3. RoboCup 2023 · Springer

    RoboCup 2022 AdultSize Winner NimbRo: Upgraded Perception, Capture Steps Gait and Phase-Based In-Walk Kicks

    Dmytro Pavlichenko, Grzegorz Ficht, Arash Amini, Mojtaba Hosseini, Raphael Memmesheimer, Angel Villar-Corrales, Stefan M. Schulz, Marcell Missura, Maren Bennewitz, Sven Behnke

    The perception, gait and kicking upgrades behind team NimbRo's win of the RoboCup 2022 AdultSize league in Bangkok, Thailand.