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Best Paper Award
15.04.2011: VisCG received an Award for the Best Papers at the IEEE International Symposium on Virtual Reality Innovations (ISVRI) Conference 2011 held in Singapore. Dr. Frank Steinicke presented the paper entitled "Interactive Generation of Virtual Environments using MUAVs". The Co-Authors are Sven Strothoff, Dirk Feldmann, Tom Vierjahn and Sina Mostafawy. The work was conducted in the AVIGLE project.PIVE Workshop
15.12.2010: In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Pete Willemsen from the University of Minnesota Duluth (USA), Frank Steinicke co-organizes a workshop on perceptual Illusions in virtual environments (PIVE) at the IEEE VR 2011 conference. Further information about the workshop can be found here.JVRC Tutorial
17.08.2010: In cooperation with Dr. Betty Mohler from the MPI in Tübingen and Gabriel Cirio from INRIA in France, Gerd Bruder will give a tutorial about locomotion techniques for virtual environments at the JVRC 2010 entitled "Walking Experiences in Virtual Worlds". The JVRC 2010 is an international conference and exhibition on virtual reality and will be held in Stuttgart. Subsequent to the tutorial, a guided tour through the Cyberneum in Tübingen with demonstration of the CyberWalk platform will take place.Working Group Meeting "Visual Computing in Medicine"
21.01.2010: The next meeting of the Working Group "Visual Computing in Medicine" of the Gesellschaft für Informatik will take place in Münster on March 17, 2010. From 10:00 to 15:40 several talks about medical visualization and its application will be given in the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Haus. Afterwards there will be an excursion to the European Institute of Molecular Imaging (EIMI). Find more information in the complete schedule (PDF).IEEE VR Tutorial
07.12.2009: In cooperation with Dr. Marc Ernst from the MPI in Tübingen and Dr. Anatole Lecuyer from INRIA in France, Dr. Frank Steinicke will give a tutorial about locomotion techniques for virtual environments at the IEEE VR 2010 entitled "Walking through Virtual Worlds". IEEE VR 2010 is the premier international conference and exhibition on virtual reality and will be held in Boston.2nd IEEE VR Workshop PIVE 2010
27.11.2009: In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Pete Willemsen from the University of Minnesota Duluth (USA), Frank Steinicke co-organizes the 2nd IEEE VR 2010 Workshop on Perceptual Illusions in Virtual Environments (PIVE) at the IEEE VR 2010 conference in Waltham (Massachusetts), USA. Further information about the workshop can be found here.Best Paper Award
20.11.2009: VisCG received the Best Full Paper Award at the 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology VRST 2009 which was held in Kyoto, Japan. Dr. Frank Steinicke presented the paper entitled "Judgment of Natural Perspective Projections in Head-Mounted Display Environments". The work has been co-authored by Gerd Bruder and Klaus Hinrichs from VisCG, Markus Lappe from the psychology department, Scott Kuhl from Michigan Technological University and Pete Willemsen from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. The work is part of the LOCUI project funded by the German Research Foundation. For further in formation see here.Best Paper Award
07.09.2009: VisCG received one of the Best Paper Awards at the 2009 International Conference on CYBERWORLDS which was held in Bradford (UK). Gerd Bruder presented the paper entitled “Enhancing Presence in Head-mounted Display Environments by Visual Body Feedback using Head-mounted Cameras".Best Paper Award
23.03.2009: VisCG received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI) which was held in Lafayette (LA), USA. Gerd Bruder presented the paper entitled “Arch-Explore: A Natural User Interface for Immersive Architectural Walkthroughs". press release upmBest Paper Award
02.03.2009: The Effective Virtual Environments (EVE) Group from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and VisCG received a Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI), which was held in Cancun, Mexico. Jason Jerald presented the paper entitled “Scene-Motion Thresholds Correlate with Angular Head Motions for Immersive Virtual Environments”. The work has been co-authored by Mary Whitton from EVE and Frank Steinicke from VisCG.PIVE Workshop
17.12.2008: In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Pete Willemsen from the University of Minnesota Duluth (USA), Frank Steinicke co-organizes a workshop on perceptual Illusions in virtual environments (PIVE) at the IEEE VR 2009 conference. Further information about the workshop can be found here.Article about perception limits
04.12.2008: Sébastien Kuntz from Virtools / Dassault Systèmes has written an article about the redirected walking projects of VisCG and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetic in Tuebingen. Read article.Best Paper Award
31.10.2008: VisCG received an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) which was held in Bordeaux, France. Frank Steinicke presented the paper entitled “Analyses of Human Sensitivity to Redirected Walking”. The paper has been honoured together with two others articles. Overall, over 150 papers have been submitted to the VRST conference. The work has been done in cooperation with the research group of Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe at the Psychology Department II at the University of Münster, and the Effective Virtual Environments group of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Diplomandenkolloquium
22.04.2008: Jens Kasten working at the Konrad Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) will present his diploma thesis "Integration globaler Illuminationsverfahren in ein interaktives Volume Rendering Framework". The talk will take place 30th of May 2008 at 10:30 in the meeting room of the institute (6th floor).Best Paper Award
14.04.2008: VisCG received the Best Paper Award at the Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC), which was held in Laval, France. Frank Steinicke presented the paper entitled "Moving towards Generally Applicable Redirected Walking". The work has been done in cooperation with the research group of Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe of the Psychology Department II of the University of Münster.Best Poster Award
27.03.2008: VisCG received the Honarable Mention for Best Poster at the IEEE Virtual Reality which was held in Reno, NV, USA. Frank Steinicke presented the poster entitled "A Universal Locomotion Interface: Integrating Generic Redirected Walking and Dynamic Passive Haptics into 3D Legacy Applications". The work has been done in cooperation with the research group of Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe at the Psychology Department II at the University of Münster.Preis für beste Diplomarbeit
07.04.2008: The "PROVISIO software engineering"-Price 2008 for the best diploma thesis was given to Jörg Mensmann, who has written his thesis within the Visualization & Computer Graphics Research Group.Best Paper Award
01.02.2008: VisCG received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), which was held in Funchal, Portugal. Frank Steinicke presented the paper entitled "Augmenting 3D city models with visualization of real-time metereological phenomena". The work has been done in cooperation with the research group of Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger of the Department of Geoinformatics and the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Group headed by Prof. Dr. Xiaoyi Jiang of the University of Münster. Jan de Buhr, Kai Rothaus, Jörg Mensmann and Klaus Hinrichs have co-authored the paper.Further information can be found here.
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