Visual Computing Institute - RWTH Aachen University

Welcome to the Visual Computing Institute

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

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

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

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

From our SeedFund Project: Avatars as Peers at Work

From our Medicine Project: Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy

aixCAVE of RWTH Aachen University

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

quad mesh

Art Meets Virtual Reality: Start of the Future Lab 2016

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 Ceremony

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

quadmesh

position based dynamics

Biternion Nets: Continuous Head Pose Regression from Discrete Training Labels

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

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

fracture simulation

fluid dynamics

From our Simulation Project: Virtual Air Traffic System Simulation

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

From our student project: Super Smash Panda

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

•	We have a paper on Inter-Surface Maps at SIGGRAPH Asia 2019.	Aug. 26, 2019
•	Sebastian Pick receives doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University Today, our colleague Sebastian Pick successfully passed his Ph.D. defense and received a doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University for his thesis on "Interactive Data Annotation for Virtual Reality Applications". Congratulations!	July 15, 2019
•	Successful Presentations at ISC'19 At this year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) exhibition in Frankfurt, scientists of JARA-HPC have presented an application based on Unreal Engine for visualizing a direct numerical simulation of early flame kernel development. In the interactive exhibit, the visitors of the booth were provided with stereo glasses and flysticks to interactively explore the combustion simulation projected through the display wall. The application has gathered interest from a wide range of people, ranging from youth interested in utilization of game engines for scientific visualization, to domain scientists asking the specifics of the direct numerical simulation in display. The responses were overall positive, and included valuable feedback for further development. A particular theme was extension of the immersive visualization environment to arbitrary datasets.	June 20, 2019
•	Astronauts Cassidy and Hansen Visting Virtual AMS-02 The astronauts Christopher J. Cassidy (US) and Jeremy R. Hansen (Canada) are preparing for one of the most demanding missions in space: Replacing the cooling system at the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02 on the International Space Station ISS in at least five intensive space operations. As the new cooling system was developed by RWTH, in close collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, NASA, and other partners, the astronauts visited Aachen to become familiar with the cooling system's technology. During their stay, they also visited our aixCAVE to experience a full-scale, virtual AMS-02, a demo prepared by Prof. Roßmann's Institute for Man-Machine Interaction. News regarding this spectacular visit can, e.g., be found here (University news: visit announcement), here (University news: visit retrospective) and here (video by Aachener Nachrichten, German).	May 21, 2019
•	RWTH Fellowship Prof. Kobbelt has been named RWTH Fellow for his outstanding research performance and his great merits for RWTH Aachen University.	April 5, 2019
•	The Innovation Factory on RWTH Aachen Campus ... ... is ready for take-off and introduces itself to the public with a short video clip on youtube. Of course, VR is involved here as well - as one digital tool used in the development stage to gain initial insights.	Jan. 18, 2019