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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 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

Research 

Our research is supported by: 

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Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft
Schleswig-Holstein
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IDIR
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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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