Current Group Member

Dr. Manuel Weiß

Postdoctoral Researcher

Current and Upcoming Projects

Recent Completed Projects

Publications

  • Controlling nematic fields through shape optimization Preprint
    David Li, Santiago Gomez Melo, Manuel Weiß, Stephan Schmidt, Roland Herzog and Ulrich Sebastian Schwarz
    2026
    doi:10.2139/ssrn.7499226
    BibLaTeX 
    @ONLINE{LiGomezMeloWeissSchmidtHerzogSchwarz:2026:1,
  AUTHOR = {Li, David and Gomez Melo, Santiago and Weiß, Manuel and Schmidt, Stephan and Herzog, Roland and Schwarz, Ulrich Sebastian},
  PUBLISHER = {Elsevier BV},
  DATE = {2026-09},
  DOI = {10.2139/ssrn.7499226},
  TITLE = {Controlling nematic fields through shape optimization},
}
  • Shape Segmentation and Denoising Based on Total-Variation Functionals Thesis
    Manuel Weiß
    Ph.D. thesis, Heidelberg University · 2026
    doi:10.11588/heidok.00038720
    BibLaTeX 
    @THESIS{Weiss:2026:1,
  AUTHOR = {Weiß, Manuel},
  INSTITUTION = {Heidelberg University},
  DATE = {2026-06-09},
  DOI = {10.11588/heidok.00038720},
  TITLE = {Shape Segmentation and Denoising Based on Total-Variation Functionals},
  TYPE = {phdthesis},
}
  • Two models for surface segmentation using the total variation of the normal vector Article
    Manuel Weiß, Lukas Baumgärtner, Laura Weigl, Ronny Bergmann, Stephan Schmidt and Roland Herzog
    Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 68(4) · 2026
    arXiv:2412.00445 doi:10.1007/s10851-026-01303-y
    BibLaTeX 
    @ARTICLE{WeissBaumgaertnerWeiglBergmannSchmidtHerzog:2026:1,
  AUTHOR = {Weiß, Manuel and Baumgärtner, Lukas and Weigl, Laura and Bergmann, Ronny and Schmidt, Stephan and Herzog, Roland},
  PUBLISHER = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
  DATE = {2026-06},
  DOI = {10.1007/s10851-026-01303-y},
  EPRINT = {2412.00445},
  EPRINTTYPE = {arXiv},
  JOURNALTITLE = {Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision},
  NUMBER = {4},
  TITLE = {Two models for surface segmentation using the total variation of the normal vector},
  VOLUME = {68},
}
  • Total generalized variation of the normal vector field and applications to mesh denoising Article
    Lukas Baumgärtner, Ronny Bergmann, Roland Herzog, Stephan Schmidt and Manuel Weiß
    SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences 19(1), p.584-611 · 2026
    arXiv:2507.13530 doi:10.1137/25m1779437
    BibLaTeX 
    @ARTICLE{BaumgaertnerBergmannHerzogSchmidtWeiss:2026:1,
  AUTHOR = {Baumgärtner, Lukas and Bergmann, Ronny and Herzog, Roland and Schmidt, Stephan and Weiß, Manuel},
  PUBLISHER = {Society for Industrial \& Applied Mathematics (SIAM)},
  DATE = {2026-03},
  DOI = {10.1137/25m1779437},
  EPRINT = {2507.13530},
  EPRINTTYPE = {arXiv},
  JOURNALTITLE = {SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences},
  NUMBER = {1},
  PAGES = {584--611},
  TITLE = {Total generalized variation of the normal vector field and applications to mesh denoising},
  VOLUME = {19},
}
  • Geometry denoising with preferred normal vectors Preprint
    Manuel Weiß, Lukas Baumgärtner, Roland Herzog and Stephan Schmidt
    2025
    arXiv:2511.04848
    BibLaTeX 
    @ONLINE{WeissBaumgaertnerHerzogSchmidt:2025:1,
  AUTHOR = {Weiß, Manuel and Baumgärtner, Lukas and Herzog, Roland and Schmidt, Stephan},
  DATE = {2025-11},
  EPRINT = {2511.04848},
  EPRINTTYPE = {arXiv},
  TITLE = {Geometry denoising with preferred normal vectors},
}
  • Mesh denoising and inpainting using the total variation of the normal and a shape Newton approach Article
    Lukas Baumgärtner, Ronny Bergmann, Roland Herzog, Stephan Schmidt, José Vidal-Núñez and Manuel Weiß
    SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 47(1), p.A300-A324 · 2025
    arXiv:2012.11748 doi:10.1137/24m1646121
    BibLaTeX 
    @ARTICLE{BaumgaertnerBergmannHerzogSchmidtVidalNunezWeiss:2025:1,
  AUTHOR = {Baumgärtner, Lukas and Bergmann, Ronny and Herzog, Roland and Schmidt, Stephan and Vidal-Núñez, José and Weiß, Manuel},
  PUBLISHER = {Society for Industrial \& Applied Mathematics (SIAM)},
  DATE = {2025-01},
  DOI = {10.1137/24m1646121},
  EPRINT = {2012.11748},
  EPRINTTYPE = {arXiv},
  JOURNALTITLE = {SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing},
  NUMBER = {1},
  PAGES = {A300--A324},
  TITLE = {Mesh denoising and inpainting using the total variation of the normal and a shape Newton approach},
  VOLUME = {47},
}
  • The proximal map of the weighted mean absolute error Article
    Lukas Baumgärtner, Roland Herzog, Stephan Schmidt and Manuel Weiß
    Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics 23(4) · 2023
    arXiv:2209.13545 doi:10.1002/pamm.202300042
    BibLaTeX 
    @ARTICLE{BaumgaertnerHerzogSchmidtWeiss:2023:1,
  AUTHOR = {Baumgärtner, Lukas and Herzog, Roland and Schmidt, Stephan and Weiß, Manuel},
  PUBLISHER = {Wiley},
  DATE = {2023-09},
  DOI = {10.1002/pamm.202300042},
  EPRINT = {2209.13545},
  EPRINTTYPE = {arXiv},
  JOURNALTITLE = {Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics},
  NUMBER = {4},
  TITLE = {The proximal map of the weighted mean absolute error},
  VOLUME = {23},
}

Software

  • The proximal map of the weighted mean absolute error
    Lukas Baumgärtner, Roland Herzog, Stephan Schmidt and Manuel Weiß
    2023
    doi:10.5281/zenodo.7620815
    BibLaTeX 
    @SOFTWARE{BaumgaertnerHerzogSchmidtWeiss:2022:2,
  AUTHOR = {Baumgärtner, Lukas and Herzog, Roland and Schmidt, Stephan and Weiß, Manuel},
  DATE = {2023},
  DOI = {10.5281/zenodo.7620815},
  TITLE = {The proximal map of the weighted mean absolute error},
}

Teaching