Welcome to the Visual Computing Institute

From our SeedFund Project: Avatars as Peers at Work

Mix3D: Out-of-Context Data Augmentation for 3D Scenes

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

fracture simulation

From our Simulation Project: Virtual Air Traffic System Simulation

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

MOTS: Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

Art Meets Virtual Reality: Start of the Future Lab 2016

Siam R-CNN: Visual Tracking by Re-Detection

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

From Points to Multi-Object 3D Reconstruction

fluid dynamics

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

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 Ceremony

From our Medicine Project: Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy

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

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

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

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

aixCAVE of RWTH Aachen University

From our student project: Super Smash Panda

Track to Reconstruct and Reconstruct to Track

position based dynamics

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

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

•	21th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA21) Andrea Bönsch presented a paper at the 21th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Additionally, her student David Hashem submitted a GALA video showcasing the respective application of a virtual museum's curator who either guides the user or accompanies the user on his or free exploration. The video won the ACM IVA 2021 GALA Audience Award. Congratulations!	Sept. 17, 2021
•	ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP2021) Jonathan Ehret presented joined work with the RWTH Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics and the Cologne IfL Phonetik on the Influence of Prosody and Embodiment on the Perceived Naturalness of a Conversational Agents’ Speech. During the peer-reviewing process, the paper was invited and accepted to the Journal Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP). Congratulations!	Sept. 16, 2021
•	Best Paper Award Our paper "Fast Corotated Elastic SPH Solids with Implicit Zero-Energy Mode Control" got the best paper award at the ACM SIGGRAPH / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation 2021.	Sept. 10, 2021
•	ICAT-EGVE 2021 Andrea Bönsch presented a poster on Indirect User Guidance by Pedestrians in Virtual Environments during the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (ICAT-EGVE 2021).	Sept. 9, 2021
•	Med&BioVis Workshop 2021 Marcel Krüger gave a talk introducing "Insite - A Pipeline for the Interactive Analysis of Neuronal Network Simulations via NEST, TVB, and ARBOR" on the Med&BioVis Workshop of GI Fachgruppe Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine.	Sept. 3, 2021
•	DAGA 2021 Our group was involved in three presentations at this year's DAGA, 47th Annual Conference on Acoustics. While Jonathan Ehret talked about "Speech Source Directivity for Embodied Conversational Agents", our colleagues from RWTH Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics presented joint work on "Prosodic and Visual Naturalness of Dialogs Presented by Conversational Virtual Agents" and our AUDICTIVE project on listening to, and remembering conversations between two talkers.	Aug. 18, 2021