News & Announcements
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Since Prof. Botsch has a sabbatical this summer, we will offer the course Geometric Modeling as inverted classroom.
28 Mar 2025
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🎓 Stephan successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Wenninger! 👍🍾
12 Mar 2025
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🏆🏆 Marie’s paper on analyzing self-similarity vs. motor control for body weight perception received an honorable mention at IEEE VR 2025, and Lena’s work on embodying avatars with ideal body weight received the Best Poster Award 🥂.
10 Mar 2025
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🏆 We received the teaching award Lehrer-Lämpel-Preis for the course Geometric Modeling in the summer term 2024. 🥂 Thanks to all students who participated in the evaluation!
26 Feb 2025
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📄 Our neural physics-based model for head-hand interactions has been accepted for Eurographics 2025.
25 Jan 2025
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🏆 Our project group “AvaTalk” won the P5 PG award at today’s DAT. Congratulations to the student team and the supervisors Fabian and Timo!
24 Jan 2025
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📄 Our collaborations with JMU Würzburg and RWTH Aachen led to three papers at IEEE VR 2025.
17 Jan 2025
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🎓 Astrid successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Pontzen! 👍🍾
17 Oct 2024
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📄 Our collaboration with Maria Korosteleva and Olga Sorkine-Hornung on a garment code dataset has been accepted for ECCV 2024.
17 Jul 2024
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🏆 We received the teaching award Lehrer-Lämpel-Preis for the course “Computer Graphics” in the winter term 2023/2024. Thanks to all students who participated in the evaluation!
19 Jun 2024
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🏆 Our joint work with Mark Gillespie, Denise Yang, and Keenan Crane on ray tracing harmonic functions will receive an Honorable Mention at ACM SIGGRAPH 2024.
19 Jun 2024
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📷 We had the chance to scan BVB legend Leonardo Dede for an AR/VR exhibition of FH Dortmund at BORUSSEUM. See the TU news article and the Instagram reel. Thanks to all people involved in this project!
26 Apr 2024
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🏆 Dennis’ super-nice visualization of our polygon mesh smoothing won the CGF Cover Image Contest 🥂
23 Feb 2024
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Our papers on a robust polygon Laplacian and on an anatomically constrained human shape model have been accepted for Eurographics 2024.
14 Feb 2024
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On February 28 we will organize the “Decker Day” at TU Dortmund. Please see this presentation for more information and register here.
13 Feb 2024
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🏆 We received the teaching award Lehrer-Lämpel-Preis for the course “Geometric Modeling” in the summer term 2023. 🥂 Thanks to all students who participated in the evaluation!
13 Dec 2023
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🏆 Our paper on learning physics-based facial animations received an honorable mention at ACM MIG 2023 🥂.
17 Nov 2023
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We released version 3.0 of our polygon mesh processing library PMP, now featuring curvature computation, smoothing, fairing, hole filling, parameterization, and geodesics also for general polygon meshes, based on our polygon Laplacian. See the release notes for details.
24 Aug 2023
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Our papers on immersive visualization of historical data and on the impact of avatar personalization have been accepted for ISMAR 2023.
22 Aug 2023
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We will give a course on discrete Laplacians for polygonal/polyhedral meshes at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023.
04 Aug 2023
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🏆 We received the teaching award Lehrer-Lämpel-Preis for the course “Computer Graphics” in the winter term 2022/2023. 🥂 Thanks to all students who participated in the evaluation!
12 Jul 2023
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Project ViTraS was featured in the TV report ARD Wissen: Mein Körper. Mein (Mehr-)Gewicht.
15 May 2023
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🏆 Our paper analyzing whether embodied avatars are harmful to our self-experience received an honorable mention at ACM CHI 2023 🥂.
26 Apr 2023
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🏆 We received the teaching award of TU Dortmund (best course with >60 participants) for our course “Mathematics for Computer Science 2”. 🥂
16 Dec 2022
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🏆 We received the teaching award Lehrer-Lämpel-Preis for the course “Geometric Modeling” in the summer term 2022. Moreover, our course “Math for Computer Science 2” was the best-evaluated compulsory course. Thanks to all students who participated in the evaluation!
16 Nov 2022
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🎓 Martin successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Komaritzan! 👍🍾
29 Aug 2022
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🏆 We received the teaching award Lehrer-Lämpel-Preis for the winter term 2021/2022. 🥂 Thanks to all students who participated in the evaluation!
06 Jul 2022
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Our work on variational quadratic shape functions for polygons/polyhedra has been accepted for SIGGRAPH. 🥂
05 May 2022
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🏆🏆 We received the teaching award Lehrer-Lämpel-Preis for the winter term 2020/2021 as well as for the summer term 2021. 🥂 Thanks to all students who participated in the evaluation!
26 Jan 2022
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Our project HyLeC: Hybrid Learning Center, a collaboration with EngineeringEducation, University Library, and Rehabilitation Sciences, will be funded by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre with 3.3M Euro. See here for the official press release.
31 May 2021
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Our smartphone-based avatar reconstruction was featured in a TU Dortmund press release, a 120 seconds lecture, a WDR TV spot, a DLF radio interview, a Heise ct article, and an unizet article.
15 Feb 2021
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🏆 Our paper on Realistic Virtual Humans from Smartphone Videos received the Best Paper Award at ACM VRST 2020 🥂.
04 Nov 2020
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🏆 Our paper on a compact patch-based representation for technical mesh models received the Best Paper Award at VMV 2020 🥂.
01 Oct 2020
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Prof. Botsch and his group have moved from Bielefeld University to TU Dortmund University.
01 Sep 2020
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We received our last teaching award in Bielefeld, with a record percentage of 96% of the students in our two courses voting to give us the award 🍾🥂. Thank you very much!
30 Jul 2020
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We released version 1.2.1 of our mesh processing library PMP.
10 May 2020
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Mario will give a keynote a Shape Modeling International 2020 in Strasbourg.
07 Feb 2020
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Our work on craniofacial reconstruction made it to the cover of Informatik Spektrum.
15 Oct 2019
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🏆 We received the new teaching award for continuously outstanding teaching quality. 🥂 Thanks a lot to all students who voted for us!
11 Jul 2019
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🎓 Felix successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Hülsmann! 👍🍾
19 Jun 2019
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🎓 Jascha defended his PhD and turned into DrAchenbach 🐉. Congratulations! 👍🍾
17 Jun 2019
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🏆 Project ViTraS won the DIVR Best Impact Award. ViTraS investigates VR therapy through stimulation of modulated body image. It is a large collaboration of JMU Würzburg (coordinator), Uni Bielefeld, HTW Berlin, FH Gera, TU Munich, TheCaptury & Brainboost.
29 May 2019
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🏆 Eduard received a Eurographics PhD Award at Eurographics 2019 in Genova. Congratulations!
06 May 2019
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We released the first official version of PMP, our simple, efficient and flexible library for polygon mesh processing.
18 Feb 2019
