Welcome to the Visual Computing Institute

























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:
News
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Two New Student Research Opportunities in Social Virtual Reality Research We are looking for motivated RWTH students interested in Unreal Engine, VR development, and virtual human behavior to support two exciting interdisciplinary research projects. Find out more here. |
May 23, 2026 |
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We have a paper on learning fine-to-coarse cuboid shape abstraction at Eurographics 2026. |
Feb. 25, 2026 |
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We have a paper on layout optimization at Eurographics 2026. |
Feb. 24, 2026 |
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Sevinc Eroglu receives doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University Today, our former colleague Sevinc Eroglu successfully passed her Ph.D. defense and received a doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University for her thesis on "Building Immersive Worlds: Authoring Content and Interactivity in VR". Congratulations! |
Jan. 9, 2026 |
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Jonathan Ehret receives doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University Today, our former colleague Jonathan Ehret successfully passed his Ph.D. defense and received a doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University for his thesis on "Enhancing Social Presence in Embodied Conversational Agents: A Multimodal Approach to Natural Communication". Congratulations! |
Dec. 8, 2025 |
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Our papers Quantised Global Autoencoder: A Holistic Approach to Representing Visual Data and Bijective Feature-Aware Contour Matching received best paper award and best presentation award respectively, at the 30th VMV 2025. |
Oct. 7, 2025 |