Note: Cathrin Elich has transitioned from the institute (alumni).
I am a PhD student in the Embodied Vision group and scholar in the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS) under the joint supervision of Dr. Jörg Stückler and Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys.
My research interests lie in the broad field of computer vision and, more specifically, are currently focused on learning structured scene representations. I'm interested to learn about ways in which humans perceive their environment and how to use these ideas in combination with deep learning methods. Moreover, I want to explore options of combining this work with other tasks like segmentation or 3D reconstruction.
Before starting at the MPI-IS, I received my M.Sc. in Computer Science from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. During this time, I worked as a student assistant at the Computer Vision Group on 3D object reconstruction from images and wrote my master thesis about '3D Instance Semantic Segmentation on Point Clouds' under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bastian Leibe. Apart from this, I spent some time abroad during my Erasmus year at the Imperial College London and a research summer school at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.