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Kiel University

Visual Computing and
Artificial Intelligence

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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.

News

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Our paper on Memory-Augmented Text-Based World Models was accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 

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Two papers on simulating fires (link) and urban vegetation placement (link) were accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia.

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Our paper on reconstructing fire with Gaussian Splatting was accepted to the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV): link. 

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We are excited that three papers are accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) towards topics on embodied navigation (link), fire-aware navigation (link), and combining complex physical simulations (link). 

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The Centre for Responsible Digitality (ZEVEDI) interviewed Prof. Pirk for a podcast on synthetic data for training AI models: link

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M. Sc. Ruben Hammele joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.

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We are excited to start working on policies for autonomous drones for agriculture, a project founded Landesprogramm Wirtschaft 2021-2027 (link)

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Our paper on modeling fungal wood decay was accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH: link. 

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The results of our Fire-X paper (link) were selected for the front cover of ACM Transactions on Graphics: link.

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Our paper on nested transformer architectures was accepted to IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) : link. ​

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

Research 

Our research is supported by: 

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Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft
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Hochleistungsrechnen
Cooperation for Digital Implant Research (IDIR)
Interreg EU

We are a member of: 

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Digital Science Center

Kiel University
Department of Computer Science   
Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Neufeldtstraße 6 (Ground Floor)
D-24118 Kiel
Germany

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