Welcome to the Visual Computing Institute

From our student project: Super Smash Panda

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

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

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

From our SeedFund Project: Avatars as Peers at Work

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

ControlRoom3D: Room Generation using Semantic Proxies

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

fracture simulation

aixCAVE of RWTH Aachen University

position based dynamics

3D Segmentation of Humans in Point Clouds with Synthetic Data

UGainS: Uncertainty Guided Anomaly Instance Segmentation

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

OoDIS: Anomaly Instance Segmentation Benchmark

From our Medicine Project: Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy

Mask3D for 3D Semantic Instance Segmentation

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

From our Simulation Project: Virtual Air Traffic System Simulation

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 Ceremony

Art Meets Virtual Reality: Start of the Future Lab 2016

Point-VOS: Pointing Up Video Object Segmentation

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

fluid dynamics

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

•	Martin Bellgardt receives doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University Today, our former colleague Martin Bellgardt successfully passed his Ph.D. defense and received a doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University for his thesis on "Increasing Immersion in Machine Learning Pipelines for Mechanical Engineering". Congratulations!	April 30, 2025
•	Student researcher opening in the area of Social VR, click here for more information.	Jan. 15, 2025
•	Active Participation at 2024 IEEE VIS Conference (VIS 2024) At this year's IEEE VIS Conference, several contributions of our visualization group were presented. Dr. Tim Gerrits chaired the 2024 SciVis Contest and presented two accepted papers: The short paper "DaVE - A Curated Database of Visualization Examples" by Jens Koenen, Marvin Petersen, Christoph Garth and Dr. Tim Gerrits as well as the contribution to the Workshop on Uncertainty Exploring Uncertainty Visualization for Degenerate Tensors in 3D Symmetric Second-Order Tensor Field Ensembles by Tadea Schmitz and Dr. Tim Gerrits, which was awarded the best paper award. Congratulations!	Oct. 22, 2024
•	Honorable Mention One Best Paper Honorable Mention Award of the VRST 2024 was given to Sevinc Eroglu for her paper entitled “Choose Your Reference Frame Right: An Immersive Authoring Technique for Creating Reactive Behavior”.	Oct. 11, 2024
•	Tim Gerrits as invited Keynote Speaker at the ParaView User Days in Lyon ParaView, developed by Kitware is one of the most-used open-source visualization and analysis tools, widely used in research and industry. For the second edition of the ParaView user days, Dr. Tim Gerrits was invited to share his insights of developing and providing visualization within the academic communities.	Sept. 26, 2024
•	Invited Talk at Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine This year's Eurographics Symposium on Visual Computing for Biologigy and Medicine VCBM in Magdeburg included a VCBM Fachgruppen Meeting with an invited presentation by Dr. Tim Gerrits on "Harnessing High Performance Infrastructure for Scientific Visualization of Medical Data".	Sept. 20, 2024