Michael Wimmer

Details

Title

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.

Function:

Professor

Workgroup

Rendering and Modeling

Room

HD0519

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.

Full publication list
My Google Scholar profile.
ACM Authorizer links page: ACM approved full text downloads for my papers published with ACM.

Function

Full Professor
Head of the Curriculum Commission Informatics at TU Wien
Head of the Rendering and Modeling Group at the institute.
Head of the Center for Geometry and Computational Design
Coordinator of the Special Research Programme Advanced Computational Design
Key researcher at the VRVis Research Center
Responsible for the projects listed here.

Technical Writing Resources

How to read a realistic rendering paper, by Morgan McGuire
Common mistakes in technical writing, by Wojciech Jarosz. Has most of the previous great pages on this topics linked at the end.
Three-phase paper writing, by Daniel Ritchie. Good for the actual paper-writing work.
Grammar Slammer, briefly summarizes the most common English rules. In particular, look at punctuation!

Theses

Diploma thesis on "Interactive Techniques in Three-dimensional Computer Graphics" at Institute of Computer Graphics of the Vienna University of Technology under the friendly supervision of Robert F. Tobler.
PhD thesis "Representing and Rendering Distant object for Real-Time Visualization" (as part of the Urban Visualization project), in cooperation with Dieter Schmalstieg and Francois Sillion, supervised by Michael Gervautz..
Habilitation thesis on "Real-Time Rendering" in October 2007.

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 160 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.

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
Interactive Visualization of Flood and Heavy Rain Simulations
2019 / Eurographics / Portugal
Career
2018 / Eurographics / Switzerland
Eurographics Fellow
2018 / Eurographics / Netherlands / Website
Associate Editor
2012 / Elsevier / United States of America
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)
2001 / Eurographics / Great Britain & N.Ireland

Topics for Projects and Theses

€1000: Classify Unseen Objects
BA, PR, DA; 1-3 persons
3D data Representation Conversion
PR; 1 person
€1000: Scene Change Detect App
BA, PR, DA; 1-3 persons
Real-Time Rendering
BA, PR, DA; 1-4 persons
Student project/ Master's Thesis: Energy Efficient Building Design
PR, DA; 1 person
Rendering, Visual Data Science, and Simulation Topics in Visdom
BA, PR, DA; 7-10 persons

Research Projects

Instant Visualization and Interaction for Large Point Clouds
Jul 2023 - Jul 2026
Toward Optimal Path Guiding for Photorealistic Rendering
Feb 2023 - Jan 2027
Ecosystem Modeling Using Rendering Methods
Jul 2022 - Jun 2024
Unstable Bodies
Dec 2021 - Nov 2024
ECOlogical building enveLOPES: a game-changing design approach for regenerative urban ecosystems
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Advanced Computational Design
Mar 2020 - Feb 2024
Advanced Computational Design
Mar 2020 - Feb 2024

Courses in the current semester

Ausgewählte Kapitel der Computergraphik
VU: TISS
Computergraphik
UE: Course page | TISS | Hall Of Fame
Computergraphik
VO: TISS
Modeling in Computer Graphics
VU: Course page | TISS
Praktikum aus Visual Computing 1
PR: Course page | TISS
Praktikum aus Visual Computing 2
PR: Course page | TISS
Rendering
VU: Course page | TISS | Hall Of Fame
Seminar für DissertantInnen
SE: TISS
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
SE: Course page | TISS
Wissenschaftliches Publizieren 1
PR: TISS

Publications

238 Publications found:

Image	Bib Reference	Publication Type
2023
	Johannes Unterguggenberger , Bernhard Kerbl , Michael Wimmer 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)
	Markus Schütz, Bernhard Kerbl , Philip Klaus, Michael Wimmer GPU-Accelerated LOD Generation for Point Clouds	Miscellaneous Publication
	Christian Freude, Hiroyuki Sakai, Karoly Zsolnai-Fehér , Michael Wimmer 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 Rasoulzadeh, Michael Wimmer , Iva Kovacic Strokes2Surface: Recovering Curve Networks from 4D Architectural Design Sketches for Shape Inference, 12. October 2022,	Invited Talk
	Ildar Gilmutdinov, Ingrid Schlögel, Alois Hinterleitner, Peter Wonka , Michael Wimmer Assessment of Material Layers in Building Walls Using GeoRadar Remote Sensing, 14(19), October 2022. [paper]	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Diana Marin , Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael Wimmer SIGDT: 2D Curve Reconstruction Computer Graphics Forum, 41(7):25-36, October 2022. [Paper] [Paper]	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Michael Wimmer , Iva Kovacic, Peter Ferschin, Florian Rist, Michael Hensel, Kristina Schinegger, Stefan Rutzinger, Hannes Kaufmann , Martin Kilian, Christian Müller, Ivan Izmestiev, Georg Nawratil, Josef Füssl, Milena Stavric, 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 Kerbl , Michael Wimmer 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 Cardoso , Bernhard Kerbl , Lei Yang, Yury Uralsky, Michael Wimmer 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 Marin , Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael Wimmer 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 Hermosilla, Bernhard Kerbl , Timo Ropinski, Michael Wimmer 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 Kerbl , Linus Horvath, Daniel Cornel, Michael Wimmer An Improved Triangle Encoding Scheme for Cached Tessellation In Eurographics 2022 - Short Papers, pages 1-4. April 2022. [paper]	Conference Paper
	Johannes Unterguggenberger , Bernhard Kerbl , Michael Wimmer 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 Kerbl , Michael Wimmer , 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 Kerbl , Michael Wimmer 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 Unterguggenberger , Bernhard Kerbl , Michael Wimmer 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 Unterguggenberger , Bernhard Kerbl , Jakob Pernsteiner, Michael Wimmer 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 Wimmer 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 Wimmer 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 Kerbl , Michael Wimmer 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 Koch, Michael Wimmer 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 Wimmer , Katharina Krösl 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 Cardoso , Nuno Goncalves, Michael Wimmer Cost Volume Refinement for Depth Prediction In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pages 354-361. January 2021. [paper]	Conference Paper
	Meliha Honic, Iva Kovacic, Marijana Sreckovic, Georgios Gourlis, Helmut Rechberger, Philipp Aschenbrenner, Johann Fellner, Ildar Gilmutdinov, Michael Wimmer , 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. Luidolt , Michael Wimmer , Katharina Krösl 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 Wimmer Applications of Smart Graphics, 12. November 2020, online	Invited Talk
	Katharina Krösl, Carmine Elvezio, Laura R. Luidolt , Matthias Hürbe, Sonja Karst, Steven Feiner, Michael Wimmer 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 Wimmer 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
	Philipp Erler , Paul Guerrero, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael Wimmer , 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 Wimmer Test Scene Design for Physically Based Rendering [paper] [arXiv]	Miscellaneous Publication
	Christian Freude, Hiroyuki Sakai, Karoly Zsolnai-Fehér , Michael Wimmer R-Score: A Novel Approach to Compare Monte Carlo Renderings TR-193-02-2020-4, August 2020 [technical-report]	Technical Report
	Meliha Honic, Iva Kovacic, Ildar Gilmutdinov, Michael Wimmer 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 Wimmer 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 Kerbl , Michael Wimmer Improved Triangle Encoding for Cached Adaptive Tessellation Poster shown at HPG 2020 ( 1. May 2020-22. June 2020) [paper] [poster]	Poster
	Karoly Zsolnai-Fehér , Peter Wonka , Michael Wimmer 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 Wimmer 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 Wimmer 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 Unterguggenberger , Bernhard Kerbl , Markus Steinberger, Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Wimmer Fast Multi-View Rendering for Real-Time Applications In Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, pages 13-23. May 2020. [paper]	Conference Paper
	Katharina Krösl, Carmine Elvezio, Matthias Hürbe, Sonja Karst, Steven Feiner, Michael Wimmer 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 Wimmer , Gustavo Patow Shrinking City Layouts Computers & Graphics, 86:15-26, February 2020.	Journal Paper (without talk)
2019
	Markus Schütz, Michael Wimmer Rendering Point Clouds with Compute Shaders Poster shown at SIGGRAPH Asia (November 2019)	Poster
	Alessio Arleo, Christos Tsigkanos, Chao Jia, Roger Leite, Ilir Murturi, Manfred Klaffenböck, Schahram Dustdar, Silvia Miksch, Michael Wimmer , Johannes Sorger Sabrina: Modeling and Visualization of Economy Data with Incremental Domain Knowledge In IEEE VIS 2019. October 2019.	Conference Paper
	Michael Wimmer Computer Graphics for Serious Games, 4. September 2019, Vienna, Austria	Invited Talk
	Adam Celarek, Wenzel Jakob, Michael Wimmer , Jaakko Lehtinen Quantifying the Error of Light Transport Algorithms Computer Graphics Forum, 38(4):111-121, July 2019. [paper_preprint] [Git repository]	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Reinhold Preiner, Tamy Boubekeur, Michael Wimmer Gaussian-Product Subdivision Surfaces ACM Transactions on Graphics, 38(4):35:1-35:11, July 2019. [image] [Paper]	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Daniel Cornel, Andreas Buttinger-Kreuzhuber, Artem Konev, Zsolt Horvath, Michael Wimmer , Raimund Heidrich, Jürgen Waser Interactive Visualization of Flood and Heavy Rain Simulations Computer Graphics Forum, 38(3):25-39, June 2019. [image]	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Christian Luksch, Michael Wimmer , Michael Schwärzler Incrementally Baked Global Illumination In Proceedings of the 33rd Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D 2019), pages 4:1-4:10. May 2019. [draft] [teaser] [video]	Conference Paper
	Harald Steinlechner, Bernhard Rainer, Michael Schwärzler, Georg Haaser, Attila Szabo, Stefan Maierhofer, Michael Wimmer Adaptive Point-cloud Segmentation for Assisted Interactions In Proceedings of the 33rd Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, pages 14:1-14:9. May 2019. [draft]	Conference Paper
	Markus Schütz, Michael Wimmer Live Coding of a VR Render Engine in VR Poster shown at IEEE VR 2019 (March 2019)	Poster
	Jakub Boksansky, Michael Wimmer , Jirí Bittner Ray Traced Shadows: Maintaining Real-Time Frame Rates In Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs, pages 159-182, March 2019	Article in a Book