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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

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About me

Functions

Technical Writing Resources

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 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 200 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, Technical Papers Assistant Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH 2023, and Technical Papers Chair of SIGGRAPH Asia 2025. 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
  • Neural Rendering
  • Computational Design
  • Real-Time Rendering
  • Computer Games
  • Point-Based Graphics

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
    2011 / 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)
    2009 / IEEE/ACM / Republic of Korea
  • Günther Enderle Award (for the Best Paper at the Eurographics 2001 Conference, 1000 CH, Paper: Instant Visibility)
    2000 / Eurographics / Great Britain & N.Ireland

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