Welcome to the Visual Computing Institute

From our SeedFund Project: Avatars as Peers at Work

fluid dynamics

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

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

aixCAVE of RWTH Aachen University

From our Medicine Project: Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy

Mask3D for 3D Semantic Instance Segmentation

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 Ceremony

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

ControlRoom3D: Room Generation using Semantic Proxies

UGainS: Uncertainty Guided Anomaly Instance Segmentation

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

fracture simulation

OoDIS: Anomaly Instance Segmentation Benchmark

position based dynamics

3D Segmentation of Humans in Point Clouds with Synthetic Data

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

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

From our student project: Super Smash Panda

Art Meets Virtual Reality: Start of the Future Lab 2016

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

From our Simulation Project: Virtual Air Traffic System Simulation

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

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

•	Andrea Bönsch receives doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University Today, our colleague Andrea Bönsch successfully passed her Ph.D. defense and received a doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University for her thesis on "Social Wayfinding Strategies to Explore Immersive Virtual Environments". Congratulations!	June 26, 2024
•	29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2023) Together with Dr. Daniel Zielasko from the University of Trier our colleague Dr. Tim Weißker presented his paper entitled "Stay Vigilant: The Threat of a Replication Crisis in VR Locomotion Research" at the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2023). Their work was awarded with the Best Paper Award. Congratulations!	Oct. 12, 2023
•	Best Paper Award Our paper "Consistent SPH Rigid-Fluid Coupling" got the best paper award at the Eurographics Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2023.	Sept. 29, 2023
•	We have a paper on greedily generating artwork using Bézier segments at VMV 2023.	May 23, 2023
•	Our paper on surface maps received the Günter Enderle Best Paper Award at Eurographics 2023.	May 12, 2023
•	Industry Meets aixCAVE On Friday, May 5th, about twenty delegates from renowned companies across Germany visited us to experience the aixCAVE. This event triggered many intriguing thoughts and stimulating discussions between our researchers and guests. Read more	May 5, 2023