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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Our paper on automatic differentiation received the best paper award (1st place) at the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2022 |
July 6, 2022 |
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We have a paper on fast and exact mesh Booleans at SIGGRAPH 2022. |
June 13, 2022 |
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In collaboration with CNIC Madrid we have a paper on the geometry of heart development in Nature Cardiovascular Research. |
May 18, 2022 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |