Welcome to the Visual Computing Institute

From our Simulation Project: Virtual Air Traffic System Simulation

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

aixCAVE of RWTH Aachen University

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

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

From our Medicine Project: Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy

Track to Reconstruct and Reconstruct to Track

MOTS: Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

From our SeedFund Project: Avatars as Peers at Work

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

Art Meets Virtual Reality: Start of the Future Lab 2016

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 Ceremony

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

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

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

fluid dynamics

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

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

Siam R-CNN: Visual Tracking by Re-Detection

fracture simulation

From our student project: Super Smash Panda

position based dynamics

From Points to Multi-Object 3D Reconstruction

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

•	Claudia Hänel receives doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University Today, our colleague Claudia Hänel successfully passed her Ph.D. defense and received a doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University for her thesis on "Methods for Immersive Visual Analysis of Structural Brain Data". Congratulations!	July 29, 2021
•	Prof. Kobbelt will be on sabbatical (Forschungssemester) during the winter semester 2021. Please note that the lecture Basic Techniques in Computer Graphics will only be held in Bonn. Our seminars and practical courses take place as usual.	July 16, 2021
•	Our papers Surface Map Homology Inference and Geodesic Distance Computation via Virtual Source Propagation received best paper awards (1st and 2nd place) at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2021.	July 16, 2021
•	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