Institute of Computer Graphics

Our research mission is focused on the investigation and development of new techniques that support future display and imaging technologies. Real-time computer graphics and computer vision driven by laws of visual perception represent the technical foundations. Display and imaging devices, such as projectors, cameras, (auto-)stereoscopic, and holographic displays in combination with the underlying concepts of applied optics represent the technological foundations. We are also adapting rendering, visualization, as well as image processing and analysis techniques to become more efficient when linking them closely to the underlying display and imaging technology, and to models of human visual perception. The applications are interdisciplinary, and currently range from projection displays over digital video composition and defocus compensation, radiological visualization to microscopy. Such a strong coupling of computer graphics and computer vision is today referred to as "visual computing".