Visual Computing Institute - RWTH Aachen University

Welcome to the Visual Computing Institute

quadmesh

From our Medicine Project: Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 Ceremony

From our Architectural Geometry project: Rationalization of Triangle-Based Point-Folding Structures

From our Excellence Cluster: Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries

From our student project: Super Smash Panda

From our Image Representation and Manipulation project: Two-Colored Pixels

From our Simulation project: Wave Propagation using the Photon Path Map

From our SeedFund Project: Avatars as Peers at Work

From a Master Thesis: Reorientation in Virtual Environments Using Interactive Portals

Art Meets Virtual Reality: Start of the Future Lab 2016

Biternion Nets: Continuous Head Pose Regression from Discrete Training Labels

position based dynamics

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From our project: Generalized Use of Non-Terminal Symbols for Procedural Modeling

On Multi-Modal People Tracking from Mobile Platforms in Very Crowded and Dynamic Environments

fluid dynamics

From the Human Brain Project: Interactive Exploration of Simulated Brain Areas

fracture simulation

Joint 2D-3D Temporally Consistent Segmentation of Street Scenes

From our Simulation Project: Virtual Air Traffic System Simulation

aixCAVE of RWTH Aachen University

The Visual Computing Institute is a research institute within the Computer Science Department at RWTH Aachen University. It brings together all research groups that are addressing the diverse scientific aspects of the generation, processing, analysis, and display of visual data. As such, the VCI covers a very broad spectrum of research competences ranging from geometry processing and computer graphics to computer vision, immersive visualization and simulation. Our mission is to develop innovative methods and algorithms in this area and to create impact in fundamental research as well as in industrial applications. Further information about projects, research, and teaching activities can be found on the individual group websites:

Graphics, Geometry & Multimedia
Prof. Dr. Leif Kobbelt

Computer Vision
Prof. Dr. Bastian Leibe

Mesh Generation & Optimization
Prof. Dr. David Bommes

Computer Animation
Prof. Dr. Jan Bender

Virtual Reality & Immersive Visualization
Prof. Dr. Torsten Wolfgang Kuhlen

News

•	Best Paper Award Our paper "A Micropolar Material Model for Turbulent SPH Fluids" got the best paper award at the ACM SIGGRAPH / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation.	Aug. 15, 2017
•	Successful Event „VR in Industry“ Due to the current hype of the discipline of Virtual Reality (VR) evoked by top-quality and affordable VR devices on the markets, some issues arise in Industry: How can VR be optimally integrated into the existing processes? Which hardware and software are required? Which costs are incurred for a company? To answer these questions we teamed up with the TEMA Technologie Marketing AG, and organized as well as partially hosted "The VR in Industry Days in Aachen" on July, 4th to 5th. Read more...	July 14, 2017
•	Successful Presentations at ISC'17 At this year's International Supercomputing Conference from June 18 - 22, 2017 in Frankfurt scientists of the JARA-HPC presented latest research results at the exhibition and organized a workshop on In Situ Visualization. Read more...	June 29, 2017
•	We will be hosting the International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP) in April 2018.	June 19, 2017
•	Honorable Mention The Honorable Mention for the best Short Paper of the 19th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2017) was given to Claudia Hänel and Ali Can Demiralp for their paper entitled "Interactive Level-of-Detail Visualization of 3D Polarized Light Imaging Data Using Spherical Harmonics".	June 16, 2017
•	Torsten Kuhlen gave an invited talk at the ART Days 2017 in Ottobrunn, Munich.	June 2, 2017