Welcome to the Visual Computing Institute

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

aixCAVE of RWTH Aachen University

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

MOTS: Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

From our Medicine Project: Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 Ceremony

3D-MPA: Multi Proposal Aggregation for 3D Semantic Instance Segmentation

DualConvMesh-Net: Joint Geodesic and Euclidean Convolutions on 3D Meshes

Track to Reconstruct and Reconstruct to Track

fluid dynamics

Siam R-CNN: Visual Tracking by Re-Detection

From our student project: Super Smash Panda

From our Simulation Project: Virtual Air Traffic System Simulation

position based dynamics

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

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

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

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

From our SeedFund Project: Avatars as Peers at Work

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

fracture simulation

Art Meets Virtual Reality: Start of the Future Lab 2016

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

Computer Animation
Prof. Dr. Jan Bender

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

News

•	IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2021 Sebastian Pape and Sevinc Eroglu just presented their research at IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2021, which will end tomorrow. Sebastian's poster deals with a Virtual Optical Bench as a VR learning tool for optical design, while Sevinc's paper on design and evaluation of a free-hand VR-based authoring environment for automated vehicle testing was even nominated for the Best Paper Award.	April 1, 2021
•	Andrea Schnorr receives doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University Today, our colleague Andrea Schnorr successfully passed her Ph.D. defense and received a doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University for her thesis on "Feature Tracking for Space-Filling Structures". Congratulations!	Feb. 19, 2021
•	We have a paper on Quad Layouts at Eurographics 2021.	Feb. 17, 2021
•	We have a paper on Layout Embedding at Eurographics 2021.	Feb. 17, 2021
•	Article on Social Virtual Reality research published in RWTH THEMEN (2/2020) The current issue of the Science Magazine RWTH THEMEN (2/2020) presents various research conducted in the RWTH's profile area „Information & Communication Technology“. Together with Prof. Michael Vorländer and Prof. Janina Fels, both experts in the area of Virtual Acoustics, we provide insight into our research in the realm of Social Virtual Reality: To convincingly represent conversational interaction partners, VAs need to plausibly mimic visual and acoustic human behavior. In the article we focus on the realism of the acoustic reproduction which can be achieved by applying dynamic directivity as well as by taking the phoneme-dependent characteristics of the spoken word into account. Read the complete article here, page 12-17.	Feb. 3, 2021
•	20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents Jonathan Ehret and Andrea Bönsch present four papers at the current 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Additionally, Andrea is co-author on a collaborative work with colleagues from, i.a., Dutch and Australia, which is nominated for the Best Paper Award.	Oct. 21, 2020