The Department for Computer Science 9 (Computer Graphics) works on the generation and manipulation of synthetic images, virtual worlds and computer animations with the help of computers. This comprises methods for generating suitable models of a scene (geometric modeling), methods for displaying such scenes (image synthesis, rendering) as well as processing large data sets with the aim of visualizing the information content (scientific visualization).
Focus of researchThe research of the LGDV is divided into three areas: Geometric Modeling
Image Synthesis
image based methods, light fields
point based rendering
image synthesis in virtual reality applications
global illumination and shadow computation
ray tracing
distributed and parallel rendering
Visualization
medical visualization
registration and segmentation of tomographic data
integration of simulation and visualization
interactive visualization of 3D data
flow visualization
virtual reality
These main research areas are not independent of each other, since one thing gives rise to the other.
Research-relevant technical equipment
Cooperation partnersWe are closely cooperating with several companies. Among them are
ATI Technologies Inc., Ontario, Canada
BMW AG, Munich
EADS Germany GmbH, Munich
Fraunhofer Institute (IIS and IZFP), Erlangen, Fürth
NVIDIA Corporation, California, USA
Rupp + Hubrach KG, Bamberg
Siemens AG, UB Medical Solutions, Erlangen
Siemens AG, UB Automatics and Drives, Erlangen
Conferences and workshops
- Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 1999
Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2002 (http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/vmv2002)
Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2003 (http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/bvm/index.html)
| Head Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Stamminger
Professors Prof. Dr. Günther Greiner Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Stamminger
Secretary Maria Baroti Dr. rer. nat. Jutta Schoppmeier
Scientific Staff Dr.-Ing. Frank Bauer Luís Fernandes, M. Sc. Dr. Roberto Grosso M.Sc. Matthias Innmann M.Sc. Benjamin Keinert M.Sc. Franziska Kranz M.Sc. Philipp Kurth M.Sc. Vanessa Lange M.Sc. Alexander Lier Dipl.-Inf. Magdalena Martinek M.Sc. Jana Martschinke M.Sc. Falko Matern M.Sc. Jonas Müller M.Sc. Dominik Penk M.Sc. Darius Rückert M.Sc. Lucas Thies Dipl.-Inf. Franz Uhrmann PD Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wittenberg M.Sc. Daniel Zint
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