Lab History
July 7, 2025​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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July 1, 2025
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June 26, 2025
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June 6, 2025
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May, 1, 2025
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April 9, 2025
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March 27, 2025
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​February 15, 2025
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February 10, 2025
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​January 22, 2025
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January 15, 2025
Together with our Spot robot we are attending Coding Waterkant (link).
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The VCAI lab is hosting a workshop with international collaborators and friends from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, and Purdue University, USA.
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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).
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The VCAI lab is excited to host students for the software challenge with a project on our Spot robot (link).
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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.
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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.
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​Our short paper on FemoraLyze, a modular framework for proximal femur analysis was accepted at Medical Imaging with Deep Learning 2025: link.
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Our paper on modeling tree dynamics with a strand-based representation was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025: link.
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Our paper on reconstructing forests from point cloud data was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (link).
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The VCAI lab hosted 12 students for Girls's Day to work on Generative AI and AI for autonomous agents (link).
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The Marine Data Science (link) and Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence groups receive funding to acquire a Visual AI Server (link).
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The NDR Schleswig-Holstein Magazin visited us to report on our work on fire-aware robot navigation: link
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Several newspapers report on our work on building wildfire twins: Frankfurter Rundschau, Schleswig-Holsteiner Zeitung, Die Rheinpfalz, Bild.de.
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Our paper on modeling hair with learned parametric representation was accepted to ICLR 2025: link.
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M. Sc. Ashwath Shetty joined the research group Visiting Researcher. View Profile: link.
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December 3, 2024
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November 18, 2024
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November 13, 2024
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November 1, 2024
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​October 31, 2024
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October 25, 2024
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​October 1, 2024
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September 25, 2024
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​September 17, 2024
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April 25, 2024
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April 24, 2024
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​April 15, 2024
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​February 27, 2024
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​January 26, 2024
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January 22, 2024
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January 2, 2024
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The VCAI group received an ERC Consolidator grant (link, link) to work on digital twins for wildfires.
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Prof. Pirk talked about Generative AI and Synthetic Data at the KI.SH Networking event: link.
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It was a pleasure to join the CAU-Delegation to Poznań: link.
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M. Sc. Yujun Wang joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.
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Our work on advanced Simulations of Wildfire Dynamics was presented at the Wildland Fire Canada Conference (WFCC) in New Brunswick: link.
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It was a pleasure to attend the International Conference on Social Robotics (link) in Odense (Denmark) to present our work on gesutre-aware imitation learning: link.
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Anton Wagner joined the research group as a Technical Assistant. View Profile: link.
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Our paper on training large reconstruction models with synthetic data was accepted to NeurIPS: link.
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Digital Salon, our AI and Physics-Driven Tool for 3D Hair Grooming and Simulation was accepted to Real-Time Live! at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. Demo videos available here: link.
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At Girls' Day 2024, we and the Marine Data Science working group gave schoolgirls their first insights into the world of image processing and its diverse applications: link.
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Four papers accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2024.
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Two of our papers on synthetic data generation were accepted to the CVPR Workshops Synthetic Data for Computer Vision and Vision for Agriculture: link, link.
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Our paper on Multi-View Reconstruction with Diffusion Models was accepted to CVPR 2024: link.
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Our paper on modeling trees with neural networks was featured in: SCIENMAG, Earth.com, TechTimes, Purdue University, Eureka Alert!
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Two Minute Papers discussed our work on environmental modeling: link, link.
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M. Sc. Marten Finck joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.
November 15, 2023
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November 1, 2023
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October 16, 2023
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October 5, 2023
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October 1, 2023
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September 29, 2023
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August 19, 2023
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August 1, 2023
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July 14, 2023
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M. Sc. Sarker Miraz Mahfuz joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.
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M. Sc. Helge Wrede joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.
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​Our paper on generating interaction poses was accepted to 3DV: link.
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Our paper on simulating the wilting process of plants was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia: link.
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M. Sc. Nikolas Schwarz joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.
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Together with three other panelists I talked about the impact of AI on education at the science day at Kiel University: link.
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Prof. Dr. Sören Pirk introduced himself as a new Professor for AI at the 4th AI Conference in Schleswig-Holstein: link.
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Tordis Rolf joined the research group as administrative assistant. View profile: link.
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Two papers accepted at ICCV 2023: GAIT and 3DMiner.
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Prof. Dr. Sören Pirk was appointed to join the Faculty of Engineering at Christian-Albrechts-University (CAU), Kiel as Full Professor for Computer Science to lead the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence group.