News & Announcements
🏆 We received the teaching award of TU Dortmund (best course with >60 participants) for our course “Mathematics for Computer Science 2”. 🥂
🏆 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!
Our work on smartphone-based blendshape personalization has been accepted for ACM VRST 2022. 🥂
Martin successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Komaritzan! 👍🍾
Our work on modulating embodied avatars for body image intervention in VR has been accepted in Frontiers in Virtual Reality. 🥂
🏆 We received the teaching award Lehrer-Lämpel-Preis for the winter term 2021/2022. 🥂 Thanks to all students who participated in the evaluation!
Our work on variational quadratic shape functions for polygons/polyhedra has been accepted for SIGGRAPH. 🥂
🏆🏆 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!
Our user study on affordable (but not cheap) avatars has been accepted in Frontiers in Virtual Reality.
Our Diamond Laplace for polygonal and polyhedral meshes has been accepted at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP).
Our paper on creating a layered anatomical model from human surface scans has been accepted in Frontiers in Virtual Reality.
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.
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.
🏆 Our paper on Realistic Virtual Humans from Smartphone Videos received the Best Paper Award at ACM VRST 2020 🥂.
🏆 Our paper on a compact patch-based representation for technical mesh models received the Best Paper Award at VMV 2020 🥂.
Prof. Botsch and his group have moved from Bielefeld University to TU Dortmund University.
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!
Astrid presented our paper on Polygon Laplacians at Eurographics. Source code is available here.
We released version 1.2.1 of PMP, our polygon mesh processing library: http://www.pmp-library.org
Our paper on Polygon Laplacians has been accepted at Eurographics 2020. Source code will be available soon.
We now are trained fire fighters!
We attended a guided tour of the Mensa of Bielefeld University. Guten Appetit!
🏆 We received the new teaching award for continuously outstanding teaching quality. 🥂 Thanks a lot to all students who voted for us!
Felix successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Hülsmann! 👍🍾
Jascha defended his PhD and turned into DrAchenbach. 🐉Congratulations! 👍🍾
We released version 1.1 of PMP, our polygon mesh processing library: http://www.pmp-library.org
🏆Project ViTraS won the DIVR Best Impact Award: http://places-festival.de/divr-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.
🏆 Eduard received a Eurographics PhD Award at Eurographics 2019 in Genova. Congratulations!
We released the first official version of PMP, our simple, efficient and flexible library for polygon mesh processing: http://www.pmp-library.org