Welcome to the Visual Computing Institute

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

From our student project: Super Smash Panda

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

fracture simulation

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

Siam R-CNN: Visual Tracking by Re-Detection

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

position based dynamics

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

fluid dynamics

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

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

Track to Reconstruct and Reconstruct to Track

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

From Points to Multi-Object 3D Reconstruction

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

From our Medicine Project: Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy

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

Art Meets Virtual Reality: Start of the Future Lab 2016

From our Simulation Project: Virtual Air Traffic System Simulation

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 Ceremony

MOTS: Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

aixCAVE of RWTH Aachen University

From our SeedFund Project: Avatars as Peers at Work

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

•	Our paper on automatic differentiation received the best paper award (1st place) at the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2022	July 6, 2022
•	We have a paper on fast and exact mesh Booleans at SIGGRAPH 2022.	June 13, 2022
•	In collaboration with CNIC Madrid we have a paper on the geometry of heart development in Nature Cardiovascular Research.	May 18, 2022
•	WSCG 2022 Ali Can Demiralp presented his research paper on "Performance Assessment of Diffusive Load Balancing for Distributed Particle Advection" during the 30. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Computer Vision 2022 (WSCG2022).	May 18, 2022
•	VHCIE @ IEEE VR 2022 The Virtual Humans and Crowds in Immersive Environments (VHCIE) is a half-day workshop associated with the IEEE VR conference. In 2022, Andrea Bönsch teamed up with colleagues from France to organize the 7th edition of the workshop. During the workshop, her master student Daniel Rupp presented their work-in-progress on "An Embodied Conversational Agent Supporting Scene Exploration by Switching between Guiding and Accompanying", while her colleague Jonathan Ehret presented insights on "Natural Turn-Taking with Embodied Conversational Agents".	March 12, 2022
•	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