Publications

2025

Avatars for the Masses: Smartphone-Based Reconstruction of Humans for Virtual Reality

Timo Menzel, Erik Wolf, Stephan Wenninger, Niklas Spinczyk, Lena Holderrieth, Carolin Wienrich, Ulrich Schwanecke, Marc Erich Latoschik, Mario Botsch

Frontiers in Virtual Reality 6, 2025

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NePHIM: A Neural Physics-Based Head-Hand Interaction Model

Nicolas Wagner, Ulrich Schwanecke, Mario Botsch

Computer Graphics Forum 44(2), (Proc. Eurographics), 2025

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Virtual Body Image Exercises for People With Obesity – Results on Eating Behavior and Body Perception of the ViTraS Pilot Study

Kathrin Gemesi, Nina Döllinger, Natascha-Alexandra Weinberger, Erik Wolf, David Mal, Sebastian Keppler, Stephan Wenninger, Emily Bader, Carolin Wienrich, Claudia Luck-Sikorski, Marc Erich Latoschik, Johann Habakuk Isral, Mario Botsch, Christina Holzapfel

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 25(176), 2025

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The Buffering of Autonomic Fear Responses Is Moderated by the Characteristics of a Virtual Character

Martin Weiß, Philipp Krop, Lukas Treml, Elias Neuser, Mario Botsch, Martin J. Herrmann, Marc Erich Latoschik, Grit Hein

Computers in Human Behavior 168, 2025

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Minimalism or Creative Chaos? On the Arrangement and Analysis of Numerous Scatterplots in Immersive 3D Knowledge Spaces

Melanie Derksen, Torsten Kuhlen, Mario Botsch, Tim Weissker

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 31(5), (Proc. VR), 2025

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Self-Similarity Beats Motor Control in Augmented Reality Body Weight Perception

Marie Luisa Fiedler, Mario Botsch, Carolin Wienrich, Marc Erich Latoschik

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 31(5), (Proc. VR), 2025

Best Paper Honorable Mention

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Coverage of Facial Expressions and Its Effects on Avatar Embodiment, Self-Identification, and Uncanniness

Peter Kullmann, Theresa Schell, Timo Menzel, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 31(5), (Proc. VR), 2025

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Do You Feel Better? The Impact of Embodying Photorealistic Avatars with Ideal Body Weight on Attractiveness and Self-Esteem in Virtual Reality

Lena Holderrieth, Erik Wolf, Marie Luisa Fiedler, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich

IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2025

Best Poster Award

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2024

From Avatars to Agents: Self-Related Cues through Embodiment and Personalization Affect Body Perception in Virtual Reality

Marie Luisa Fiedler, Erik Wolf, Nina Döllinger, David Mal, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 30(11), (Proc. ISMAR), 2024

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GarmentCodeData: A Dataset of 3D Made-to-Measure Garments With Sewing Patterns

Maria Korosteleva, Timur Levent Kesdogan, Fabian Kemper, Stephan Wenninger, Jasmin Koller, Yuhan Zhang, Mario Botsch, Olga Sorkine-Hornung

European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024

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Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions

Mark Gillespie, Denise Yang, Mario Botsch, Keenan Crane

ACM Transaction on Graphics 4(43), (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2024

Best Paper Honorable Mention

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Am I the Odd One? Exploring (In)Congruencies in the Realism of Avatars and Virtual Others in Virtual Reality

David Mal, Nina Döllinger, Erik Wolf, Stephan Wenninger, Mario Botsch, Carolin Wienrich, Marc Erich Latoschik

Frontiers in Virtual Reality 5, 2024

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AnaConDaR: Anatomically-Constrained Data-Adaptive Facial Retargeting

Nicolas Wagner, Ulrich Schwanecke, Mario Botsch

Computers & Graphics 122, 2024

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Virtual Body Swapping: A VR-Based Approach to Embodied Third-Person Self-Processing in Mind-Body Therapy

Nina Döllinger, David Mal, Sebastian Keppler, Erik Wolf, Mario Botsch, Johann Habakuk Israel, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

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From 2D-Screens to VR: Exploring the Effect of Immersion on the Plausibility of Virtual Humans

David Mal, Erik Wolf, Nina Döllinger, Mario Botsch, Carolin Wienrich, Marc Erich Latoschik

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts), 2024

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Polygon Laplacian Made Robust

Astrid Pontzen (née Bunge), Dennis Bukenberger, Sven Wagner, Marc Alexa, Mario Botsch

Computer Graphics Forum 43(2), (Proc. Eurographics), 2024

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TailorMe: Self-Supervised Learning of an Anatomically Constrained Volumetric Human Shape Model

Stephan Wenninger, Fabian Kemper, Ulrich Schwanecke, Mario Botsch

Computer Graphics Forum 43(2), (Proc. Eurographics), 2024

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SparseSoftDECA: Efficient High-Resolution Physics-Based Facial Animation from Sparse Landmarks

Nicolas Wagner, Ulrich Schwanecke, Mario Botsch

Computers & Graphics 119, 2024

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2023

Discrete Laplacians for General Polygonal and Polyhedral Meshes

Astrid Pontzen (née Bunge), Marc Alexa, Mario Botsch

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Courses, 2023

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A Survey on Discrete Laplacians for General Polygonal Meshes

Astrid Pontzen (née Bunge), Mario Botsch

Computer Graphics Forum 42(2), 2023

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SoftDECA: Computationally Efficient Physics-Based Facial Animations

Nicolas Wagner, Ulrich Schwanecke, Mario Botsch

ACM Motion, Interaction and Games, 2023

Best Paper Honorable Mention

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Who Did What When? Discovering Complex Historical Interrelations in Immersive Virtual Reality

Melanie Derksen, Julia Becker, Mohammad Fazleh Elahi, Angelika Maier, Marius Maile, Ingo Pätzold, Jonas Penningroth, Bettina Reglin, Markus Rothgänger, Philipp Cimiano, Erich Schubert, Silke Schwandt, Torsten Kuhlen, Mario Botsch, Tim Weissker

IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2023

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Virtual Reality based Access to Knowledge Graphs for History Research

Julia Becker, Mario Botsch, Philipp Cimiano, Melanie Derksen, Mohammad Fazleh Elahi, Angelika Maier, Marius Maile, Ingo Oliver Pätzold, Bettina Reglin, Markus Rothgänger, Silke Schwandt

International Conference on Semantic Systems, 2023

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Towards Discovering Meaningful Historical Relationships in Virtual Reality

Melanie Derksen, Tim Weissker, Torsten Kuhlen, Mario Botsch

IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2023

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“If It’s Not Me It Doesn’t Make a Difference” – The Impact of Avatar Personalization on User Experience and Body Awareness in Virtual Reality

Nina Döllinger, Matthias Beck, Erik Wolf, David Mal, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich

IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2023

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Are Embodied Avatars Harmful to our Self-Experience? The Impact of Virtual Embodiment on Body Awareness

Nina Döllinger, Erik Wolf, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

Best Paper Honorable Mention

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An Evaluation of Other-Avatar Facial Animation Methods for Social VR

Peter Kullmann, Timo Menzel, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts), 2023

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Did it move? Humans use spatio-temporal landmark permanency efficiently for navigation

Charlotte Roy, Dennis Wiebusch, Mario Botsch, Marc Ernst

Journal of Experimental Psychology 152(2), 2023

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2022

Variational quadratic shape functions for polygons and polyhedra

Astrid Pontzen (née Bunge), Philipp Herholz, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Mario Botsch, Misha Kazhdan

ACM Transaction on Graphics 41(4), (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2022

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Constructing L_∞Voronoi Diagrams in 2D and 3D

Dennis Bukenberger, Kevin Buchin, Mario Botsch

Computer Graphics Forum 41(5), (Proc. SGP), 2022

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Automated Blendshape Personalization for Faithful Face Animations Using Commodity Smartphones

Timo Menzel, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik

ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2022

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Resize Me! Exploring the user experience of embodied realistic modulatable avatars for body image intervention in virtual reality

Nina Döllinger, Erik Wolf, David Mal, Stephan Wenninger, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich

Frontiers in Virtual Reality 3, 2022

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Does distance matter? Embodiment and perception of personalized avatars in relation to the self-observation distance in virtual reality

Erik Wolf, Nina Döllinger, David Mal, Stephan Wenninger, Andrea Bartl, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich

Frontiers in Virtual Reality 3, 2022

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Virtual Reality for Mind and Body: Does the Sense of Embodiment Towards a Virtual Body Affect Physical Body Awareness?

Nina Döllinger, Erik Wolf, David Mal, Nico Erdmannsdörfer, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts), 2022

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Plausibility and Perception of Personalized Virtual Humans between Virtual and Augmented Reality

Erik Wolf, David Mal, Viktor Frohnapfel, Nina Döllinger, Stephan Wenninger, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich

IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2022

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Motor imagery during action observation in virtual reality: the impact of watching myself performing at a level I have not yet achieved

Cornelia Frank, Felix Hülsmann, Thomas Waltemate, David J. Wright, Daniel L. Eaves, Adam Bruton, Mario Botsch, Thomas Schack

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 21(3), 2022

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Proceedings of Vision, Modeling and Visualization 2022

Jan Bender, Mario Botsch, Daniel Keim (editors)

Eurographics Association, 2022

2021

The Diamond Laplace for Polygonal and Polyhedral Meshes

Astrid Pontzen (née Bunge), Mario Botsch, Marc Alexa

Computer Graphics Forum 40(5), (Proc. SGP), 2021

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Inside Humans: Creating a Simple Layered Anatomical Model from Human Surface Scans

Martin Komaritzan, Stephan Wenninger, Mario Botsch

Frontiers in Virtual Reality 2, 2021

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Affordable But Not Cheap: A Case Study of the Effects of Two 3D-Reconstruction Methods of Virtual Humans

Andrea Bartl, Stephan Wenninger, Erik Wolf, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik

Frontiers in Virtual Reality 2, 2021

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The Embodiment of Photorealistic Avatars Influences Female Body Weight Perception in Virtual Reality

Erik Wolf, Nathalie Merdan, Nina Döllinger, David Mal, Carolin Wienrich, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik

IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, 2021

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Marker-Less Motion Capture of Insect Locomotion With Deep Neural Networks Pre-trained on Synthetic Videos

Ilja Arent, Florian Schmidt, Mario Botsch, Volker Dürr

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 15, 2021

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2020

Polygon Laplacian Made Simple

Astrid Pontzen (née Bunge), Philipp Herholz, Misha Kazhdan, Mario Botsch

Computer Graphics Forum 39(2), (Proc. Eurographics), 2020

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A Compact Patch-Based Representation for Technical Mesh Models

Lars Kammann, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

Vision, Modeling and Visualization, 2020

Best Paper Award

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Realistic Virtual Humans from Smartphone Videos

Stephan Wenninger, Jascha Achenbach, Andrea Bartl, Marc Erich Latoschik, Mario Botsch

ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2020

Best Paper Award

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Body Weight Perception of Females using Photorealistic Avatars in Virtual and Augmented Reality

Erik Wolf, Nina Döllinger, David Mal, Carolin Wienrich, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik

IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2020

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Cognitive training in an everyday-like virtual reality enhances visual-spatial memory capacities in stroke survivors with visual field defects

Lorenz Dehn, Martina Piefke, Max Toepper, Agnes Kohsik, Andreas Rogalewski, Eugen Dyck, Mario Botsch, Wolf-Rüdiger Schäbitz

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation 27(6), 2020

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2019

Poly-Spline Finite-Element Method

Teseo Schneider, Jérémie Dumas, Xifeng Gao, Mario Botsch, Daniele Panozzo, Denis Zorin

ACM Transaction on Graphics 38(3), 2019

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A method for automatic forensic facial reconstruction based on dense statistics of soft tissue thickness

Thomas Gietzen, Robert Brylka, Jascha Achenbach, Katja zum Hebel, Elmar Schömer, Mario Botsch, Ulrich Schwanecke, Ralf Schulze

PLoS ONE 14(1), 2019

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Fast Projective Skinning

Martin Komaritzan, Mario Botsch

ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games, 2019

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Not Alone Here?! Scalability and User Experience of Embodied Ambient Crowds in Distributed Social Virtual Reality

Marc Erich Latoschik, Florian Kern, Jan-Philipp Stauffert, Andrea Bartl, Mario Botsch, Jean-Luc Lugrin

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 25(5), (Proc. VR), 2019

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VIA VR: A Technology Platform for Virtual Adventures for Healthcare and Well-Being

Sebastian von Mammen, Andreas Müller, Marc Erich Latoschik, Mario Botsch, Kirsten Brukamp, Carsten Schröder, Michel Wacker

International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games), 2019

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Superimposed Skilled Performance in a Virtual Mirror Improves Motor Performance and Cognitive Representation of a Full Body Motor Action

Felix Hülsmann, Cornelia Frank, Irene Senna, Marc Ernst, Thomas Schack, Mario Botsch

Frontiers in Robotics and AI 6, 2019

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Neuropsychological assessment of visual selective attention and processing capacity with head-mounted displays

Rebecca Foerster, Christian Poth, Christian Behler, Mario Botsch, Werner Schneider

Neuropsychology 33(3), 2019

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2018

The Impact of Avatar Personalization and Immersion on Virtual Body Ownership, Presence, and Emotional Response

Thomas Waltemate, Dominik Gall, Daniel Roth, Mario Botsch, Marc Erich Latoschik

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 24(4), (Proc. VR), 2018

Best Paper Award

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Projective Skinning

Martin Komaritzan, Mario Botsch

Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 1(1), 2018

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Design and Evaluation of Reduced Marker Layouts for Hand Motion Capture

Matthias Schröder, Thomas Waltemate, Jonathan Maycock, Tobias Röhlig, Helge Ritter, Mario Botsch

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 29(6), 2018

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Classification of motor errors to provide real-time feedback for sports coaching in virtual reality — A case study in squats and Tai Chi pushes

Felix Hülsmann, Jan Philip Göpfert, Barbara Hammer, Stefan Kopp, Mario Botsch

Computers & Graphics 76, 2018

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A Multilinear Model for Bidirectional Craniofacial Reconstruction

Jascha Achenbach, Robert Brylka, Thomas Gietzen, Katja zum Hebel, Elmar Schömer, Ralf Schulze, Mario Botsch, Ulrich Schwanecke

Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, 2018

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Orthogonalization of Linear Representations for Efficient Evolutionary Design Optimization

Andreas Richter, Stefan Dresselhaus, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2018

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Ultra-High Temporal Resolution of Visual Presentation using Gaming Monitors and G-Sync

Christian Poth, Rebecca Foerster, Christian Behler, Ulrich Schwanecke, Werner Schneider, Mario Botsch

Behavior Research Methods 50(1), 2018

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Training in a comprehensive everyday-like virtual reality environment compared to computerized cognitive training for patients with depression

Lorenz Dehn, Leona Kater, Martina Piefke, Mario Botsch, Martin Driessen, Thomas Beblo

Computers in Human Behavior 79, 2018

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2017

Fast generation of realistic virtual humans

Jascha Achenbach, Thomas Waltemate, Marc Erich Latoschik, Mario Botsch

ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2017

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The effect of avatar realism in immersive social virtual realities

Marc Erich Latoschik, Daniel Roth, Dominik Gall, Jascha Achenbach, Thomas Waltemate, Mario Botsch

ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2017

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Facial retargeting with automatic range of motion alignment

Roger Blanco i Ribera, Eduard Zell, J. P. Lewis, Junyong Noh, Mario Botsch

ACM Transaction on Graphics 36(4), (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2017

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Differential effects of face-realism and emotion on event-related brain potentials and their implications for the uncanny valley theory

Sebastian Schindler, Eduard Zell, Mario Botsch, Johanna Kissler

Scientific Reports 7, 2017

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Accurate online alignment of human motor performances

Felix Hülsmann, Stefan Kopp, Andreas Richter, Mario Botsch

ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games, 2017

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The Intelligent Coaching Space: A Demonstration

Iwan de Kok, Felix Hülsmann, Thomas Waltemate, Cornelia Frank, Julian Hough, Thies Pfeiffer, David Schlangen, Thomas Schack, Mario Botsch, Stefan Kopp

Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2017

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Get One or Create One: the Impact of Graded Involvement in a Selection Procedure for a Virtual Agent on Satisfaction and Suitability Ratings

Charlotte Diehl, Birte Schiffhauer, Friederike Eyssel, Jascha Achenbach, Sören Klett, Mario Botsch, Stefan Kopp

Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2017

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Preference-guided adaptation of deformation representations for evolutionary design optimization

Andreas Richter, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2017

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Multi-objective Representation Setups for Deformation-Based Design Optimization

Andreas Richter, Jascha Achenbach, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, 2017

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Effects of Variability in Synthetic Training Data on Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Head Reconstruction

Jan Philip Göpfert, Christina Göpfert, Mario Botsch, Barbara Hammer

IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2017

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Intelligent Coaching Space - Motor Learning and Coaching in Virtual Reality

Cornelia Frank, Felix Hülsmann, Iwan de Kok, Stefan Kopp, Mario Botsch, Thomas Schack

ISSP World Congress of Sport Psychology, 2017
Proceedings of Symposium on Solid & Physical Modeling 2017

Mario Botsch, Stefanie Hahmann, Jessica Zhang (editors)

Computer Aided Design 90, Elsevier, 2017

2016

The Impact of Latency on Perceptual Judgments and Motor Performance in Closed-Loop Interaction in Virtual Reality

Thomas Waltemate, Irene Senna, Felix Hülsmann, Marieke Rohde, Stefan Kopp, Marc Ernst, Mario Botsch

ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2016

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Point Cloud Noise and Outlier Removal for Image-Based 3D Reconstruction

Katja Wolff, Changil Kim, Henning Zimmer, Christopher Schroers, Mario Botsch, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung

International Conference on 3D Vision, 2016

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Constrained Space Deformation Techniques for Design Optimization

Daniel Sieger, Sergius Gaulik, Jascha Achenbach, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

Computer-Aided Design 72, 2016

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Evolvability as a Quality Criterion for Linear Deformation Representations in Evolutionary Optimization

Andreas Richter, Jascha Achenbach, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2016

Best Student Paper Runner-Up

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Non-Negative Kernel Sparse Coding for the Analysis of Motion Data

Babak Hosseini, Felix Hülsmann, Mario Botsch, Barbara Hammer

International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 2016

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Using the Virtual Reality Device Oculus Rift for Neuropsychological Assessment of Visual Processing Capabilities

Rebecca Foerster, Christian Poth, Christian Behler, Mario Botsch, Werner Schneider

Scientific Reports 6, 2016

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Proceedings of Symposium on Solid & Physical Modeling 2016

Mario Botsch, Stefanie Hahmann, Scott Schaefer (editors)

Computer Aided Design 78, Elsevier, 2016

2015

To stylize or not to stylize? the effect of shape and material stylization on the perception of computer-generated faces

Eduard Zell, Carlos Aliaga, Adrian Jarabo, Katja Zibrek, Diego Gutierrez, Rachel McDonnell, Mario Botsch

ACM Transaction on Graphics 34(6), (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2015

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Accurate Face Reconstruction through Anisotropic Fitting and Eye Correction

Jascha Achenbach, Eduard Zell, Mario Botsch

Vision, Modeling, Visualization, 2015

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Robust Articulated-ICP for Real-Time Hand Tracking

Andrea Tagliasacchi, Matthias Schröder, Anastasia Tkach, Sofien Bouaziz, Mario Botsch, Mark Pauly

Computer Graphics Forum 34(5), (Proc. SGP), 2015

Best Paper Award

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Reduced Marker Layouts for Optical Motion Capture of Hands

Matthias Schröder, Jonathan Maycock, Mario Botsch

ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games, 2015

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Fully Automatic Optical Motion Tracking Using an Inverse Kinematics Approach

Jonathan Maycock, Tobias Rohlig, Matthias Schröder, Mario Botsch, Helge Ritter

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2015

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On Shape Deformation Techniques for Simulation-based Design Optimization

Daniel Sieger, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

New Challenges in Grid Generation and Adaptivity for Scientific Computing, SEMA SIMAI Springer Series, 2015

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Evolvability of Representations in Complex System Engineering: A Survey

Andreas Richter, Mario Botsch, Stefan Menzel

IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2015

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Realizing a low-latency virtual reality environment for motor learning

Thomas Waltemate, Felix Hülsmann, Thies Pfeiffer, Stefan Kopp, Mario Botsch

ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2015

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Multi-Level Analysis of Motor Actions as a Basis for Effective Coaching in Virtual Reality

Felix Hülsmann, Cornelia Frank, Thomas Schack, Stefan Kopp, Mario Botsch

International Symposium on Computer Science in Sports, 2015

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A Multimodal System for Real-Time Action Instruction in Motor Skill Learning

Iwan de Kok, Julian Hough, Felix Hülsmann, Mario Botsch, David Schlangen, Stefan Kopp

ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2015

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Proceedings of Geometric Modeling and Processing 2015

Mario Botsch, Falai Chen, Andrew Gilette (editors)

Computer Aided Geometric Design 35-36, Elsevier, 2015

2014

Constrained Space Deformation for Design Optimization

Daniel Sieger, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

Procedia Engineering 82, (Proc. International Meshing Roundtable), 2014

Best Paper Award

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RBF Morphing Techniques for Simulation-based Design Optimization

Daniel Sieger, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

Engineering with Computers 30, 2014

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Online Adaptive PCA for Inverse Kinematics Hand Tracking

Matthias Schröder, Mario Botsch

Vision, Modeling, Visualization, 2014

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Real-time Hand Tracking using Synergistic Inverse Kinematics

Matthias Schröder, Jonathan Maycock, Helge Ritter, Mario Botsch

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

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Membrane Mapping: Combining Mesoscopic and Molecular Cell Visualization

Thomas Waltemate, Björn Sommer, Mario Botsch

Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, 2014

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Deformable Registration using Patch-Wise Shape Matching

Francesco Bonarrigo, Alberto Signoroni, Mario Botsch

Graphical Models 76(5), 2014

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A Natural Movement Database for Management, Documentation, Visualization, Mining and Modeling of Locomotion Experiments

Leslie M. Theunissen, Michael Hertrich, Cord Wiljes, Eduard Zell, Christian Behler, André F. Krause, Holger H. Bekemeier, Philipp Cimiano, Mario Botsch, Volker Dürr

Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines, 2014

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Real-life memory and spatial navigation in patients with focal epilepsy: Ecological validity of a virtual-reality supermarket task

Philip Grewe, Denise Lahr, Agnes Kohsik, Eugen Dyck, Hans Markowitsch, Christian Bien, Mario Botsch, Martina Piefke

Epilepsy & Behavior 31, 2014

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2013

OctaVis: A Virtual Reality System for Clinical Studies and Rehabilitation

Eduard Zell, Eugen Dyck, Agnes Kohsik, Philip Grewe, David Flentge, York Winter, Martina Piefke, Mario Botsch

Eurographics 2013 - Dirk Bartz Prize, 2013

Eurographics Medical Prize, 3rd Place

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Evaluation of surround-view and self-rotation in the OctaVis VR-System

Eugen Dyck, Thies Pfeiffer, Mario Botsch

Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE - EuroVR, 2013

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Adaptive Remeshing for Real-Time Mesh Deformation

Marion Dunyach, David Vanderhaeghe, Loïc Barthe, Mario Botsch

Eurographics Short Papers, 2013

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ElastiFace: matching and blending textured faces

Eduard Zell, Mario Botsch

Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, 2013

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Analysis of Hand Synergies for Inverse Kinematics Hand Tracking

Matthias Schröder, Jonathan Maycock, Helge Ritter, Mario Botsch

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Workshop on Hand Synergies, 2013

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Learning real-life cognitive abilities in a novel 360° virtual reality supermarket: a neuropsychological study of healthy participants and patients with epilepsy

Philip Grewe, Agnes Kohsik, David Flentge, Eugen Dyck, Christian Bien, York Winter, Mario Botsch, Hans J. Markowitsch, Martina Piefke

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 10(42), 2013

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2012

High Quality Mesh Morphing Using Triharmonic Radial Basis Functions

Daniel Sieger, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

International Meshing Roundtable, 2012

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A Comprehensive Comparison of Shape Deformation Methods in Evolutionary Design Optimization

Daniel Sieger, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch

International Conference on Engineering Optimization, 2012

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Real-Time Hand Tracking with a Color Glove for the Actuation of Anthropomorphic Robot Hands

Matthias Schröder, Christof Elbrechter, Jonathan Maycock, Robert Haschke, Mario Botsch, Helge Ritter

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2012

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OctaVis: An Easy-to-Use VR-System for Clinical Studies

Eugen Dyck, Eduard Zell, Agnes Kohsik, Philip Grewe, York Winter, Martina Piefke, Mario Botsch

Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation, 2012

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OctaVis: Optimization Techniques for Multi-GPU Multi-View Rendering

Eugen Dyck, Holger Schmidt, Martina Piefke, Mario Botsch

Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting 9(6), 2012

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Developing design guidelines for characters from analyzing empirical studies on the uncanny valley

Eduard Zell, Mario Botsch

Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation, 2012

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2011

Example‐Driven Deformations Based on Discrete Shells

Stefan Fröhlich, Mario Botsch

Computer Graphics Forum, 2011

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Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of the Surface_mesh Data Structure

Daniel Sieger, Mario Botsch

International Meshing Roundtable, 2011

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Pose Correction by Space-Time Integration

Janick Martinez Esturo, Christian Rössl, Stefan Fröhlich, Mario Botsch, Holger Theisel

Vision, Modeling, Visualization, 2011

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Proceedings of Symposium on Geometry Processing 2011

Mario Botsch, Scott Schaefer (editors)

Computer Graphics Forum 30.5, Eurographics Association, 2011

2010

Unified Simulation of Elastic Rods, Shells, and Solids

Sebastian Martin, Peter Kaufmann, Mario Botsch, Eitan Grinspun, Markus Gross

ACM Transaction on Graphics 29(4), (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2010

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Optimizing Voronoi Diagrams for Polygonal Finite Element Computations

Daniel Sieger, Pierre Alliez, Mario Botsch

International Meshing Roundtable, 2010

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OctaVis: A Simple and Efficient Multi-View Rendering System

Eugen Dyck, Holger Schmidt, Mario Botsch

GI VR/AR Workshop, 2010

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Polygon Mesh Processing

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt, Mark Pauly, Pierre Alliez, Bruno Levy

AK Peters, ISBN 978-1-56881-426-1, 2010

2009

Enrichment Textures for Detailed Cutting of Shells

Peter Kaufmann, Sebastian Martin, Mario Botsch, Eitan Grinspun, Markus Gross

ACM Transaction on Graphics 28(3), (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2009

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Flexible Simulation of Deformable Models Using Discontinuous Galerkin FEM

Peter Kaufmann, Sebastian Martin, Mario Botsch, Markus Gross

Graphical Models 71(4), 2009

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Implementation of Discontinuous Galerkin Kirchhoff-Love Shells

Peter Kaufmann, Sebastian Martin, Mario Botsch, Markus Gross

Technical Report 622, ETH Zurich

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2008

On Linear Variational Surface Deformation Methods

Mario Botsch, Olga Sorkine

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 14(1), 2008

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Polyhedral Finite Elements Using Harmonic Basis Functions

Sebastian Martin, Peter Kaufmann, Mario Botsch, Martin Wicke, Markus Gross

Computer Graphics Forum 27(5), (Proc. SGP), 2008

Best Student Paper Award

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Flexible Simulation of Deformable Models Using Discontinuous Galerkin FEM

Peter Kaufmann, Sebastian Martin, Mario Botsch, Markus Gross

ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2008

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Pose-Space Animation and Transfer of Facial Details

Bernd Bickel, Manuel Lang, Mario Botsch, Miguel Otaduy, Markus Gross

ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2008

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Robust and Efficient Wave Simulations on Deforming Meshes

Roland Angst, Nils Thuerey, Mario Botsch, Markus Gross

Computer Graphics Forum 27(7), (Proc. Pacific Graphics), 2008

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A Hardware Processing Unit for Point Sets

Simon Heinzle, Gael Guennebaud, Mario Botsch, Markus Gross

Graphics Hardware Workshop, 2008

Best Paper Award

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Finite Elemente Methoden auf konvexen Polyedern für physikalisch-basierte Schnittsimulation

Mario Botsch, Martin Wicke, Markus Gross

Jahrestagung Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik, 2008

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Special Issue on Point-Based Graphics

Mario Botsch, Renato Pajarola (editors)

Computers & Graphics 32.2, Elsevier, 2008
Geometric Modeling Based on Polygonal Meshes

Mario Botsch, Mark Pauly, Leif Kobbelt, Pierre Alliez, Bruno Levy

Eurographics 2008 Tutorials, 2008

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2007

Multi-Scale Capture of Facial Geometry and Motion

Bernd Bickel, Mario Botsch, Roland Angst, Wojciech Matusik, Miguel Otaduy, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Gross

ACM Transaction on Graphics 26(3), (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2007

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A Hardware Architecture for Surface Splatting

Tim Weyrich, Simon Heinzle, Timo Aila, Stephan Oetiker, Mario Botsch, Daniel Fasnacht, Cyril Flaig, Simon Mall, Kaspar Rohrer, Norbert Felber, Hubert Kaeslin, Markus Gross

ACM Transaction on Graphics 26(3), (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2007

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Adaptive Space Deformations Based on Rigid Cells

Mario Botsch, Mark Pauly, Martin Wicke, Markus Gross

Computer Graphics Forum 26(3), (Proc. Eurographics), 2007

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A Finite Element Method on Convex Polyhedra

Martin Wicke, Mario Botsch, Markus Gross

Computer Graphics Forum 26(3), (Proc. Eurographics), 2007

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GPU-Based Multiresolution Deformation Using Approximate Normal Field Reconstruction

Martin Marinov, Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt

Journal of Graphics, GPU, and Game Tools 12(1), 2007

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GPU Splatting

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt

In Point Based Graphics, Markus Gross, Hanspeter Pfister (editors), Elsevier / Morgan Kaufmann, 2007
Proceedings of Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 2007

Mario Botsch, Renato Pajarola, Baoquan Chen, Matthias Zwicker (editors)

Eurographics Association, 2007
Special Issue on Point-Based and Volume Graphics

Mario Botsch, Baoquan Chen, Raghu Machiraju, Torsten Möller (editors)

Computers & Graphics 31.6, Elsevier, 2007
Geometric Modeling Based on Polygonal Meshes

Mario Botsch, Mark Pauly, Leif Kobbelt, Pierre Alliez, Bruno Levy, Stephan Bischoff, Christian Rössl

SIGGRAPH 2007 Courses, 2007

Best Course Notes Award

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2006

PriMo: Coupled Prisms for Intuitive Surface Modeling

Mario Botsch, Mark Pauly, Markus Gross, Leif Kobbelt

Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2006

Best Paper Award

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Deformation Transfer for Detail-Preserving Surface Editing

Mario Botsch, Robert Sumner, Mark Pauly, Markus Gross

Vision, Modeling, Visualization, 2006

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GPU-Based Ray-Casting of Quadratic Surfaces

Christian Sigg, Tim Weyrich, Mario Botsch, Markus Gross

Eurographics Symposium on Point-Based Graphics, 2006

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Multiresolution GPU Mesh Painting

Tobias Ritschel, Mario Botsch, Stefan Müller

Eurographics Short Papers, 2006

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High Quality Surface Generation and Efficient Multiresolution Editing Based on Triangle Meshes

Mario Botsch

Lecture Notes in Informatics D(6), 2006

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Proceedings of Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 2006

Mario Botsch, Baoquan Chen, Mark Pauly, Matthias Zwicker (editors)

Eurographics Association, 2006
Geometric Modeling Based on Triangle Meshes

Mario Botsch, Mark Pauly, Christian Rössl, Stephan Bischoff, Leif Kobbelt

Eurographics 2006 Tutorials, 2006

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Geometric Modeling Based on Triangle Meshes

Mario Botsch, Mark Pauly, Christian Rössl, Stephan Bischoff, Leif Kobbelt

ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Courses, 2006

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2005

Real-Time Shape Editing Using Radial Basis Functions

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt

Computer Graphics Forum 24(3), (Proc. Eurographics), 2005

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High-Quality Surface Splatting on Today’s GPUs

Mario Botsch, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung, Matthias Zwicker, Leif Kobbelt

Eurographics Symposium on Point-Based Graphics, 2005

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Efficient Linear System Solvers for Mesh Processing

Mario Botsch, David Bommes, Leif Kobbelt

Mathematics of Surfaces XI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3604, 2005

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2004

An Intuitive Framework for Real-Time Freeform Modeling

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt

ACM Transaction on Graphics 23(3), (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2004

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A Remeshing Approach to Multiresolution Modeling

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt

Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2004

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Phong Splatting

Mario Botsch, Michael Spernat, Leif Kobbelt

Eurographics Symposium on Point-Based Graphics, 2004

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Perspective Accurate Splatting

Matthias Zwicker, J. Räsänen, Mario Botsch, Carsten Dachsbacher, Mark Pauly

Graphics Interface, 2004

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GPU-Based Tolerance Volumes for Mesh Processing

Mario Botsch, David Bommes, Christian Vogel, Leif Kobbelt

Pacific Graphics, 2004

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A Survey of Point-Based Techniques in Computer Graphics

Leif Kobbelt, Mario Botsch

Computers & Graphics 28(6), 2004

Best Paper Award

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2003

Multiresolution Surface Representation Based on Displacement Volumes

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt

Computer Graphics Forum 22(3), (Proc. Eurographics), 2003

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High-Quality Point-Based Rendering on Modern GPUs

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt

Pacific Graphics, 2003

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Feature Sensitive Mesh Processing

Leif Kobbelt, Mario Botsch

Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, 2003

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Freeform Shape Representations for Efficient Geometry Processing

Leif Kobbelt, Mario Botsch

Shape Modeling International, 2003

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2002

Efficient high quality rendering of point sampled geometry

Mario Botsch, Andreas Wiratanaya, Leif Kobbelt

Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 2002

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OpenMesh: A Generic and Efficient Polygon Mesh Data Structure

Mario Botsch, Stefan Steinberg, Stefan Bischoff, Leif Kobbelt

OpenSG Symposium, 2002

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2001

Feature Sensitive Surface Extraction from Volume Data

Leif Kobbelt, Mario Botsch, Ulrich Schwanecke, Hans-Peter Seidel

ACM SIGGRAPH, 2001

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Resampling Feature and Blend Regions in Polygonal Meshes for Surface Anti-Aliasing

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt

Computer Graphics Forum 20(3), (Proc. Eurographics), 2001

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A Robust Procedure to Eliminate Degenerate Faces from Triangle Meshes

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt

Vision, Modeling, Visualization, 2001

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2000

Feature Sensitive Sampling for Interactive Remeshing

Mario Botsch, Christian Rössl, Leif Kobbelt

Vision, Modeling, Visualization, 2000

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An Interactive Approach to Point Cloud Triangulation

Leif Kobbelt, Mario Botsch

Computer Graphics Forum 19(3), (Proc. Eurographics), 2000

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Geometric Modeling Based on Polygonal Meshes

Leif Kobbelt, Stephan Bischoff, Mario Botsch, Kolja Kähler, Christian Rössl, Robert Schneider, Jens Vorsatz

Eurographics 2000 Tutorials, 2000

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