Amir Semmo

Talks & Teaching

Presentations at conferences, symposia and invited events, and lectures and seminars I taught at the Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam.

Talks & Presentations

2026

  1. Upcoming

    Local Content-Style Control for Diffusion-based Image Stylization

    · SIGGRAPH Asia (Technical Communications), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Paper

2020

  1. Graphite: Interactive Photo-to-Drawing Stylization on Mobile Devices

    · SIGGRAPH (Appy Hour), Virtual Event

2018

  1. MaeSTrO: A Mobile App for Style Transfer Orchestration using Neural Networks

    · Cyberworlds 2018, Singapore

  2. Reducing Affective Responses to Surgical Images through Color Manipulation and Stylization

    · Expressive 2018, Victoria, BC, Canada

  3. MaeSTrO: Mobile-Style Transfer Orchestration Using Adaptive Neural Networks

    · SIGGRAPH (Appy Hour), Vancouver, BC, Canada

2017

  1. Pictory - Neural Style Transfer and Editing with CoreML

    · SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications (Demo Session), Bangkok, Thailand

  2. Pictory: Combining Neural Style Transfer and Image Filtering

    · SIGGRAPH (Appy Hour), Los Angeles, CA, USA

  3. Neural Style Transfer: A Paradigm Shift for Image-based Artistic Rendering?

    · Expressive 2017, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2016

  1. Interactive Image Filtering with Multiple Levels-of-Control on Mobile Devices

    · SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, Macao

  2. BeCasso: Artistic Image Processing and Editing on Mobile Devices

    · SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications (Demo Session), Macao

  3. BeCasso: Image Stylization by Interactive Oil Paint Filtering on Mobile Devices

    · SIGGRAPH (Appy Hour), Anaheim, CA, USA

  4. Interactive Multi-scale Oil Paint Filtering on Mobile Devices

    · SIGGRAPH (Poster Session), Anaheim, CA, USA

  5. Interactive Oil Paint Filtering On Mobile Devices

    · Expressive 2016 (Poster Session), Lisbon, Portugal

2015

  1. Konzepte und Techniken für das kartographische Design von 3D geovirtuellen Umgebungen

    · SGK-Herbsttagung, Muttenz, Switzerland

  2. Cartography-Oriented Design of 3D Geospatial Information Visualization - Overview and Techniques

    · International Cartographic Conference 2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  3. Image Stylization by Oil Paint Filtering using Color Palettes

    · Expressive 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

2014

  1. An Interaction Framework for Level-of-Abstraction Visualization of 3D Geovirtual Environments

    · ACM SIGSPATIAL MapInteract 2014, Dallas, TX, USA

  2. Image Filtering for Interactive Level-of-Abstraction Visualization of 3D Scenes

    · Expressive 2014, Vancouver, Canada

2013

  1. Evaluating the Perceptual Impact of Rendering Techniques on Thematic Color Mappings in 3D Virtual Environments

    · International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV) 2013, Lugano, Switzerland

  2. Real-Time Rendering of Water Surfaces with Cartography-Oriented Design

    · Expressive 2013, Anaheim, CA, USA

2012

  1. Cartography-Oriented Visualization of Virtual 3D City Models based on Level-of-Abstraction Transitions

    · Hasso Plattner Institute / Research School, Potsdam, Germany

  2. Interactive Visualization of Generalized Virtual 3D City Models using Level-of-Abstraction Transitions

    · Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2012, Vienna, Austria

  3. Colonia3D

    · Kultur und Informatik Conference, Berlin, Germany

2011

  1. Ansaetze zur kartographischen Gestaltung von 3D-Stadtmodellen

    · 31. Wissenschaftlich-Technische Jahrestagung der DGPF, Mainz, Germany

2010

  1. Automated Image-Based Abstraction of Aerial Images

    · AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Guimaraes, Portugal

Teaching

Lectures and seminars on image processing, visualization and geovisualization at the Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam.

2015/16 · Winter Term / Summer Term

  • Image and Video Processing with OpenGL ES (Seminar)seminar (BA) · tutor

2014/15 · Winter Term / Summer Term

  • Geovisualizationseminar (MA) · tutor
  • Introduction to Visualizationlecture (MA) · tutor

2013/14 · Winter Term / Summer Term

  • Geovisualizationseminar (MA) · tutor
  • Image & Video Processingseminar (BA) · tutor
  • Video Analysis, Abstraction, and Summarizationproject (BA) · tutor

2012/13 · Winter Term / Summer Term

  • Computergraphics IIlecture (BA) · tutor & co-lecturer
  • Graphics Programming with OpenGL and C++lecture/seminar (BA) · tutor & lecturer

2011/12 · Winter Term / Summer Term

  • Real-Time Rendering Techniquesseminar (MA) · tutor
  • Computergraphics I & Computergraphics IIlecture (BA) · tutor