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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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.
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.
A full list of news, also including older events, can be found here: link.
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