Philipp Erler
Project Assistant at Technische Universität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Erler is a research-focused software engineer and PhD student at TU Wien with 11 years of experience in visual computing, geometry processing, and game-related graphics systems. He specializes in surface reconstruction from point clouds using deep learning, combining academic research with hands-on implementation and teaching support. His background spans C/C++ systems development for desktop applications, gameplay and AI prototyping for indie games, and tooling integration for cross-platform engines. Based in Vienna, he brings a practical blend of research rigor and production-oriented engineering, often bridging gaps between simulation, computer vision, and interactive graphics. An early interest in game tech and level-import workflows informs his pragmatic approach to novel reconstruction problems.
11 years of coding experience
Vienna University of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering and Media Informatics, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering and Media Informatics at Fachhochschule Esslingen - Hochschule für Technik
English, German, French
Github Skills (90)
implicit10
mesh10
3d-models10
implicit-surfaces10
3d-reconstruction10
point-cloud10
physx9
ply9
3d9
mesh-processing9
delaunay9
wsl29
3d-printing9
openscad9
rally9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ErlerPhilipp/Pix2Model
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Photogrammetry for everyone!
Contributions:42 PRs, 71 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 1 month
netideealicevisioncolmapdockermeshroom
ErlerPhilipp/points2surf
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
Learning Implicit Surfaces from Point Clouds (ECCV 2020)
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year 1 month
implicitpoint-cloudsimplicit-surfaceseccvcomputer-vision
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