Details

Title

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Function:
  • Professor

Room

HD0519

Links

Phone

+43-1-58801-18687

E-Mail

wimmer [at] cg.tuwien.ac.at

Wikidata

News

  • I will be Co-Editor in Chief of Computer Graphics Forum from 2024!
  • I received the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2023!
  • I am Assistant Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH 2023
  • Since 2021, I am a Full Professor at TU Wien!
  • I was co-chair of Eurographics 2021 Short Papers.
  • I was program co-chair of VMV 2019.
  • I was elected a Fellow of the Eurographics Association
  • I was associate editor of ACM Transactions of Graphics, Computers & Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and Computer Graphics Forum.
  • I am an elected member of the Eurographics Executive Committee since 2016
  • I was program co-chair of Eurographics 2015, in Zurich.
  • I co-authored the book "Real-Time Shadows", please visit out book homepage!
  • I was program co-chair of Pacific Graphics 2012, in Hong Kong.
  • I was program co-chair of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2008 (EGSR 2008), held in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, June 23-25, 2008.

Function

Technical Writing Resources

Theses

Interests

  • Real-Time Rendering
  • Computer Games
  • Virtual Reality
  • Point-Based Graphics
  • Procedural Modeling
  • Computer Graphics & Animation

Hobbies

  • Music (I play the flute), volleyball, biking, books, movies, traveling, ...

Short Bio

Michael Wimmer is currently a full professor at the Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology at TU Wien, where he heads the Rendering and Modeling Group. He is also the director of the Center for Geometry and Computational Design (GCD). His academic career started with his M.Sc. in 1997 at TU Wien, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 2001.

His research interests are real-time rendering, computer games, real-time visualization of urban environments, point-based rendering, reconstruction of urban models, procedural modeling, shape modeling and computational design.

He has coauthored over 180 papers in these fields. He also coauthored the book Real-Time Shadows. He regularly serves on program committees of the important conferences in the field, including ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, IEEE VR, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, ACM I3D, SGP, SMI, HPG, etc. He is currently associate editor of Computers & Graphics, and previously for ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and Computer Graphics Forum. He was papers co-chair of EGSR 2008, Pacific Graphics 2012, Eurographics 2015, Eurographics GCH 2018, VMV 2019, EG 2021 short papers, and Assistant Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH 2023. He was elected Fellow of the Eurographics Association in 2018, and won the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award in 2023. He serves as Editor in Chief of Computer Graphics Forum since 2024.

Research Keywords

  • Computer Graphics
  • Procedural Modeling
  • Real-Time Rendering
  • Computer Games

Awards

  • Outstanding Technical Contributions Award
    2023 / Eurographics / Germany / Website
  • Wolfgang Straßer Award (Best Paper)
    2022 / ACM/Eurographics / United States of America / Website
  • Best Paper Award at EuroVis 2019 (Paper: Interactive Visualization of Flood and Heavy Rain Simulations)
    2019 / Eurographics / Portugal
  • Eurographics Fellow
    2018 / Eurographics / Netherlands / Website
  • Outstanding Service Award
    2012 / Elsevier / United States of America
  • Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2010 (Paper: Differential Instant Radiosity for Mixed Reality)
    2010 / IEEE/ACM / Republic of Korea
  • Günther Enderle Award (for the Best Paper at the Eurographics 2001 Conference, 1000 CH, Paper: Instant Visibility)
    2001 / Eurographics / Great Britain & N.Ireland

News

Topics for Projects and Theses

Research Projects

Courses in the current semester

  • ARTR
    Algorithmen für die Echtzeitgraphik
    ARTR
    2024S, planned for 2024S
    VU 186.192: Course page | TISS | TUWEL | Hall Of Fame
  • Default CG Icon
    Ausgewählte Kapitel der Computergraphik
    AKCG
    2024S
    VU 186.167: TISS
  • PTVC
    Programmiertechniken für Visual Computing
    PTVC
    2024S
    PR 193.019: Course page | TISS | TUWEL
  • Project in Visual Computing 1
    Project-in-Visual-Computing-1
    2024S
    PR 193.023: Course page | TISS
  • Project in Visual Computing 2
    Project-in-Visual-Computing-2
    2024S
    PR 193.024: Course page | TISS
  • Rendering
    Rendering
    Rendering
    2024S
    VU 186.101: Course page | TISS | TUWEL | Hall Of Fame
  • Teaser
    Seminar für Diplomand_innen für Visual Computing
    Diplomarbeit
    2024S
    SE 180.774: Course page | TISS
  • Default CG Icon
    Seminar für DissertantInnen
    Seminar für DissertantInnen
    2024S
    SE 186.195: TISS
  • Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
    Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
    WissArbeiten
    2024S
    SE 193.052: Course page | TISS | TUWEL
  • Default CG Icon
    Wissenschaftliches Publizieren 1
    Wissenschaftliches Publizieren 1
    2024S
    PR 186.185: TISS

Publications

248 Publications found:
Image Bib Reference Publication Type
2024
PPSurf teaser with comparison Philipp ErlerORCID iD, Lizeth Fuentes-PerezORCID iD, Pedro HermosillaORCID iD, Paul Guerrero, Renato Pajarola, Michael WimmerORCID iD
PPSurf: Combining Patches and Point Convolutions for Detailed Surface Reconstruction
Computer Graphics Forum, n/a(n/a):tbd-tbd, January 2024. [paper] [teaser] [Live System] [Repo (Github)]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
2023
Johannes UnterguggenbergerORCID iD, Matthias Hürbe, Gerald Kimmersdorfer, Elias Kristmann, Hiroyuki Sakai, Michael WimmerORCID iD
X-Mas Card 2023
[Card]
X-Mas Card
Christian Freude, David Hahn, Florian Rist, Lukas LippORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Precomputed radiative heat transport for efficient thermal simulation
Computer Graphics Forum, 42(7):e14957, November 2023. [paper]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Michael WimmerORCID iD
Advanced Computational Design, 7. October 2023, Stuttgart
Invited Talk
Rendered Point Cloud to the left and points/voxels colored by the containing octree node to the right. Markus Schütz, Lukas HerzbergerORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
SimLOD: Simultaneous LOD Generation and Rendering
Source Code: https://github.com/m-schuetz/SimLOD
Miscellaneous Publication
Julia Reisinger, Shervin RasoulzadehORCID iD, Bálint Istvan Kovács, Peter Ferschin, Khrystyna VasylevskaORCID iD, Michael HenselORCID iD, Iva KovacicORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Integrating AEC Domain-Specific Multidisciplinary Knowledge for Informed and Interactive Feedback in Early Design Stages
In Advances in Information Technology in Civil and Building Engineering: Proceedings of ICCCBE 2022 - Volume 2, pages 153-170. October 2023.
Conference Paper
Shervin RasoulzadehORCID iD, V. Senk, M. Königsberger, Julia Reisinger, Iva KovacicORCID iD, Josef Füssl, Michael WimmerORCID iD
A Novel Integrative Design Framework Combining 4D Sketching, Geometry Reconstruction, Micromechanics Material Modelling, and Structural Analysis
Advanced Engineering Informatics, 57, August 2023.
Journal Paper (without talk)
Bálint Istvan Kovács, Ingrid Erb, Kiumars Sharifmoghaddam, Lukas LippORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD, Peter Ferschin
The theatre metaphor for spatial computing in architectural design
In Proceedings of the Creative Construction Conference 2023, pages 674-683. June 2023.
[paper]
Conference Paper
Mara Pistellato, Tehreem FatimaORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Exploiting Light Polarization for Deep HDR Imaging from a Single Exposure
Sensors, 23(12), June 2023. [paper]
Journal Paper (without talk)
Teaser Figure. Markus Schütz, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Philip Klaus, Michael WimmerORCID iD
GPU‐Accelerated LOD Generation for Point Clouds
Computer Graphics Forum, 42(8):e14877, June 2023.
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Diana MarinORCID iD, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Parameter-Free and Improved Connectivity for Point Clouds
Poster shown at Eurographics 2023 ( 8. May 2023-12. May 2023) In Eurographics 2023 - Posters , pages 5-6.
[paper]
Poster
Johannes UnterguggenbergerORCID iD, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Vulkan all the way: Transitioning to a modern low-level graphics API in academia
Computers and Graphics, 111:155-165, April 2023. [paper] [Vulkan Launchpad] [Auto-Vk] [Auto-Vk-Toolkit]
Journal Paper (without talk)
Christian Freude, Hiroyuki Sakai, Karoly Zsolnai-FehérORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Sampling-Distribution-Based Evaluation for Monte Carlo Rendering
In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, pages 119-130. 2023.
[image] [paper]
Conference Paper
2022
Shervin RasoulzadehORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD, Iva KovacicORCID iD
Strokes2Surface: Recovering Curve Networks from 4D Architectural Design Sketches for Shape Inference, 12. October 2022,
Invited Talk
Ildar Gilmutdinov, Ingrid Schlögel, Alois Hinterleitner, Peter WonkaORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Assessment of Material Layers in Building Walls Using GeoRadar
Remote Sensing, 14(19), October 2022. [paper]
Journal Paper (without talk)
Diana MarinORCID iD, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael WimmerORCID iD
SIGDT: 2D Curve Reconstruction
Computer Graphics Forum, 41(7):25-36, October 2022. [Paper] [Paper]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Michael WimmerORCID iD, Iva KovacicORCID iD, Peter Ferschin, Florian Rist, Michael HenselORCID iD, Kristina Schinegger, Stefan Rutzinger, Hannes KaufmannORCID iD, Martin KilianORCID iD, Christian Müller, Ivan IzmestievORCID iD, Georg Nawratil, Josef Füssl, Milena StavricORCID iD, David Hahn, Georg Suter
Advanced Computational Design – digitale Methoden für die frühe Entwurfsphase
Bautechnik, 99(10):720-730, August 2022.
Journal Paper (without talk)
Markus Schütz, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Software Rasterization of 2 Billion Points in Real Time
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 5(3):1-17, July 2022. [paper]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Joao Afonso CardosoORCID iD, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Lei Yang, Yury Uralsky, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Training and Predicting Visual Error for Real-Time Applications
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 5(1):1-17, May 2022. [paper] [Paper Website]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Diana MarinORCID iD, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael WimmerORCID iD
SIG-based Curve Reconstruction
Poster shown at Eurographics 2022 - 43rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (25. April 2022-29. April 2022) In Eurographics 2022 - Posters .
[paper] [poster] [Paper]
Poster
Adam Celarek, Pedro HermosillaORCID iD, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Timo Ropinski, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Gaussian Mixture Convolution Networks
In The Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2022), pages 1-23. April 2022.
[paper] [Code on github]
Conference Paper
Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Linus Horvath, Daniel Cornel, Michael WimmerORCID iD
An Improved Triangle Encoding Scheme for Cached Tessellation
In Eurographics 2022 - Short Papers, pages 1-4. April 2022.
[paper]
Conference Paper
Johannes UnterguggenbergerORCID iD, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
The Road to Vulkan: Teaching Modern Low-Level APIs in Introductory Graphics Courses
In Eurographics 2022 - Education Papers, pages 31-39. April 2022.
[paper] [Vulkan Launchpad]
Conference Paper
2021
Ilir Murturi, Chao Jia, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD, Schahram Dustdar, Christos Tsigkanos
On Provisioning Procedural Geometry Workloads on Edge Architectures
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST, pages 354-359. October 2021.
[paper]
Conference Paper
Chao Jia, Moritz Roth, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
View-Dependent Impostors for Architectural Shape Grammars
In Pacific Graphics Short Papers, Posters, and Work-in-Progress Papers, pages 63-64. October 2021.
[paper]
Conference Paper
Stefan Stappen, Johannes UnterguggenbergerORCID iD, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Temporally Stable Content-Adaptive and Spatio-Temporal Shading Rate Assignment for Real-Time Applications
In Pacific Graphics Short Papers, Posters, and Work-in-Progress Papers, pages 65-66. October 2021.
[paper]
Conference Paper
Johannes UnterguggenbergerORCID iD, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Jakob Pernsteiner, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Conservative Meshlet Bounds for Robust Culling of Skinned Meshes
Computer Graphics Forum, 40(7):57-69, October 2021. [paper]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Mohamed Radwan, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Fast occlusion-based point cloud exploration
The Visual Computer Journal, 37:2769-2781, September 2021. [paper]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Lukas Eibensteiner, Martin Ilčík, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Temporal-Scope Grammars for Polyphonic Music Generation
In Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling, and Design (FARM ’21), pages 23-34. August 2021.
[preprint] [demo]
Conference Paper
Markus Schütz, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Rendering Point Clouds with Compute Shaders and Vertex Order Optimization
Computer Graphics Forum, 40(4):115-126, July 2021. [paper]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Thomas Bernhard Koch, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Guided Visibility Sampling++
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 4(1):4:1-4:16, April 2021. [author version]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Lara Panfili, Michael WimmerORCID iD, Katharina KröslORCID iD
Myopia in Head-Worn Virtual Reality
In 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pages 629-630. March 2021.
[abstract]
Other Reviewed Publication
Joao Afonso CardosoORCID iD, Nuno Goncalves, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Cost Volume Refinement for Depth Prediction
In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pages 354-361. January 2021.
[amended-paper]
Conference Paper
Meliha Honic, Iva KovacicORCID iD, Marijana Sreckovic, Georgios Gourlis, Helmut Rechberger, Philipp Aschenbrenner, Johann Fellner, Ildar Gilmutdinov, Michael WimmerORCID iD, Ulrich Pont, Ardeshir Mahdavi, Matthias Schuss, Peter Ferschin, Peter Kán
SCI_BIM Scanning and data capturing for Integrated Resources and Energy Assessment using Building Information Modelling
TR-193-02-2021-2, 2021
Technical Report
2020
Laura R. LuidoltORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD, Katharina KröslORCID iD
Gaze-Dependent Simulation of Light Perception in Virtual Reality
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 26, Issue 12:3557-3567, December 2020. [paper]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Michael WimmerORCID iD
Applications of Smart Graphics, 12. November 2020, online
Invited Talk
Katharina KröslORCID iD, Carmine Elvezio, Laura R. LuidoltORCID iD, Matthias Hürbe, Sonja Karst, Steven Feiner, Michael WimmerORCID iD
CatARact: Simulating Cataracts in Augmented Reality
In IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)., pages 1-10. November 2020.
[Paper]
Conference Paper
Markus Schütz, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Fast Out-of-Core Octree Generation for Massive Point Clouds
Computer Graphics Forum, 39(7):1-13, November 2020. [paper]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
We present Points2Surf, a method to reconstruct an accurate implicit surface from a noisy point cloud. Unlike current data-driven surface reconstruction methods like DeepSDF and AtlasNet, it is patch-based, improves detail reconstruction, and unlike Screened Poisson Reconstruction (SPR), a learned prior of low-level patch shapes improves reconstruction accuracy. 
Note the quality of reconstructions, both geometric and topological, against the original surfaces. The ability of Points2Surf to generalize to new shapes makes it the first learning-based approach with significant generalization ability under both geometric and topological variations. Philipp ErlerORCID iD, Paul Guerrero, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael WimmerORCID iD, Niloy Mitra
Points2Surf: Learning Implicit Surfaces from Point Clouds
In Computer Vision -- ECCV 2020, pages 108-124. October 2020.
[points2surf_paper] [short video]
Conference Paper
Elias Brugger, Christian Freude, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Test Scene Design for Physically Based Rendering

[paper] [arXiv]
Miscellaneous Publication
Christian Freude, Hiroyuki Sakai, Karoly Zsolnai-FehérORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
R-Score: A Novel Approach to Compare Monte Carlo Renderings
TR-193-02-2020-4, August 2020 [technical-report]
Technical Report
Meliha Honic, Iva KovacicORCID iD, Ildar Gilmutdinov, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Scan to BIM for the Semi-Automated Generation of a Material Passport for an Existing Building
In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference of CIB W78, pages 338-346. August 2020.
Conference Paper
Johannes Otepka, Gottfried Mandlburger, Markus Schütz, Norbert Pfeifer, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Efficient Loading and Visualization of Massive Feature-Richt Point Clouds Without Hierarchical Acceleration Structures
ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLIII-B2-2020:293-300, August 2020. [paper]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Linus Horvath, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Improved Triangle Encoding for Cached Adaptive Tessellation
Poster shown at HPG 2020 ( 1. May 2020-22. June 2020)
[paper] [poster]
Poster
Karoly Zsolnai-FehérORCID iD, Peter WonkaORCID iD, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Photorealistic Material Editing Through Direct Image Manipulation
Computer Graphics Forum, 39(4):107-120, June 2020. [paper] [Supplementary video]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Christian Luksch, Lukas Prost, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Real-Time Approximation of Photometric Polygonal Lights
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 3(1):4.1-4.18, May 2020. [Paper] [Video]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Markus Schütz, Gottfried Mandlburger, Johannes Otepka, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Progressive Real-Time Rendering of One Billion Points Without Hierarchical Acceleration Structures
Computer Graphics Forum, 39(2):51-64, May 2020. [paper]
Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Johannes UnterguggenbergerORCID iD, Bernhard KerblORCID iD, Markus Steinberger, Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael WimmerORCID iD
Fast Multi-View Rendering for Real-Time Applications
In Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, pages 13-23. May 2020.
[paper]
Conference Paper
live demo in mozilla social hubs room Katharina KröslORCID iD, Carmine Elvezio, Matthias Hürbe, Sonja Karst, Steven Feiner, Michael WimmerORCID iD
XREye: Simulating Visual Impairments in Eye-Tracked XR
In 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). March 2020.
[extended abstract] [image] [poster] [video]
Other Reviewed Publication
Oriol Pueyo, Albert Sabria, Xavier Pueyo, Michael WimmerORCID iD, Gustavo Patow
Shrinking City Layouts
Computers & Graphics, 86:15-26, February 2020.
Journal Paper (without talk)
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