Welcome to the Visual Computing Institute

aixCAVE of RWTH Aachen University

fracture simulation

fluid dynamics

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 Ceremony

ControlRoom3D: Room Generation using Semantic Proxies

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

Art Meets Virtual Reality: Start of the Future Lab 2016

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

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

position based dynamics

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

From our SeedFund Project: Avatars as Peers at Work

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

UGainS: Uncertainty Guided Anomaly Instance Segmentation

From our student project: Super Smash Panda

From our Simulation Project: Virtual Air Traffic System Simulation

3D Segmentation of Humans in Point Clouds with Synthetic Data

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

OoDIS: Anomaly Instance Segmentation Benchmark

Mask3D for 3D Semantic Instance Segmentation

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

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

From our Medicine Project: Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy

Point-VOS: Pointing Up Video Object Segmentation

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

•	Open Software Developer Position Join our team at the Virtual Reality and Immersive Visualization Group at RWTH Aachen University as a full-time Software Developer! If you are interested in using Unreal Engine 5 to power latest virtual reality and visualization hardware for cutting-edge research, visit the full position description for more information.	Oct. 22, 2024
•	24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'24) Together with Willem-Paul Brinkmann from TU Delft University our colleague Dr. Andrea Bönsch presented her work on German and Dutch Translations of the Artificial-Social-Agent Questionnaire Instrument for Evaluating Human-Agent Interactions" at IVA 2024.	Sept. 16, 2024
•	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
•	Social VR Contributions at IEEE Virtual Reality 2024 Together with Anne-Hélène Olivier, Julien Pettré, and Katja Zibrek from INRIA, Rennes our colleague Andrea Bönsch organized and hosted the 8th Workshop on Virtual Humans and Crowds in Immersive Environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2024, while also presenting some work of our research group, including a gesture authentication approach with interactive virtual agents in collabration with Daniel Rupp and results of our investigation on audiovisual coherence, asking wether embodiment of background noise sources in populated environments is a necessity in collaboration with Jonathan Ehret. Jonathan also presented our work titled StudyFramework: Comfortably Setting up and Conducting Factorial-Design Studies Using the Unreal Engine at the Open Access Tools (OAT) and Libraries for Virtual Reality Workshop.	March 17, 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