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 spans from Embodied AI and Robotics to Physical Simulations and Digital Twins.
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Our paper on reconstructing fire with Gaussian Splatting was accepted to the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV): link.
Three paper towards robotics are excepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): link, link, link.
The Centre for Responsible Digitality (ZEVEDI) interviewed Prof. Pirk for a podcast on synthetic data for training AI models: link
M. Sc. Ruben Hammele joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.
Our paper on modeling fungal wood decay was accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH: link.
The results of our Fire-X paper (link) were selected for the front cover of ACM Transactions on Graphics: link.
Our paper on nested transformer architectures was accepted to IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) : link.
Our paper on Multimodal Fracture Risk Prediction was accepted to Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL).
The content of our paper Fire-X (link) was selected for the front cover of ACM Transactions on Graphics: link.
M. Sc. Niklas Koser joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.
A full list of news, also including older events, can be found here: link.
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