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Whether it’s for computer games, motion analysis in sports, or even medical examinations, many applications require that people and their movements are captured digitally in 3D in real-time. Until now, this was possible only with expensive systems of several cameras, or by having people wear special suits. Computer scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science have now developed a system that requires only a single video camera. It can even estimate the 3D pose of a person acting in a pre-recorded video, for instance a YouTube video. Hence, it offers new applications in character control, virtual reality and ubiquitous motion capture with smartphones.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is among the prizewinners, as well as Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who made Google an international software concern. "Innovators under 35", or TR35 for short, is a global competition of the best technology talents, initiated more than ten years ago by the American magazine MIT Technology Review. The winners of the German edition of the competition now also include Christian Rossow, Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University. At the CISPA IT security research center, the 32-year-old computer scientist develops novel methods to unmask cybercriminals and provide early warning of their attacks.

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