Kiel University
Visual Computing and
Artificial Intelligence
The Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) lab, headed by Prof. Dr. Sören Pirk, focuses on research in the cross section of visual computing and artificial intelligence. Our research interests include Generative AI and Synthetic Data, Agent-centric Representations, as well as the modeling of natural and medical phenomena.
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Prof. Pirk was invited to the Landeshaus to talk about 'Katastrophenschutz 4.0 – Wie KI Feuerwehr und Katastrophenschutz verändert': link.
Our paper on contrastive decoding for reducing hallucination was accepted to the annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: link.
Meet us at Science Day 2025 in Kiel from 14:00-21:00 to learn more about speech-based robot control: link.
M. Sc. Samira Huber joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.
The radio channel SWR Kultur (Impuls) is broadcasting an interview with Prof. Pirk on robots for combating wildfires: link.
Our paper on simulating the extinction of fire was accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH Asia: link.
Several news outlets report on our work on fire-aware robot navigation that is supported by the Landesfeuerwehrschule Schleswig-Holstein (link): Zeit.de, Stern.de, Kieler Nachrichten, Berliner Morgenpost, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Salzburger Nachrichten.
The Weltspiegel shows an interview with Prof. Pirk on Wildfires (link).
The VCAI group is excited to receive support for high-performance computing from the NHR Alliance (link).
Together with our Spot robot we are attending Coding Waterkant (link).
The VCAI lab is hosting a workshop with international collaborators and friends from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, and Purdue University, USA.
Our paper on real super-resolution of the proximal femur was accepted to the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2025).
The VCAI lab is excited to host students for the software challenge with a project on our Spot robot (link).
Our paper on simluating the combustion of generalized wooden structures was accepted to the 24th ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2025: link.
The VCAI group is excited to receive the funding approval for our Visual AI Server at Kiel University handed over by Minister Schrödter: link, link.
A full list of news, also including older events, can be found here: link.
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