Ron Fedkiw will receive the Technical Academy Award
Ron Fedkiw along with two collaborators at ILM will be receiving a Technical Academy
Award for their work on fluid simulation on February 9.
This well deserved reward recognizes Ron's leadership in developing the methods used to
simulate fluids and smoke in many feature films.
For the complete story see the
Stanford news release.
Dr. Markus Flierl received the Young Investigator Award
Dr. Markus Flierl
has been selected as the winner of the Young Investigator Award of the international
conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP2007) for his paper "A double motion-compensated
orthogonal transform with energy concentration constraint" coauthored by
Professor Bernd Girod. The paper is also
a co-winner of the overall Best Paper Award. The paper emerged from a rigorous review of all candidate submissions
based on the novelty of the approach, quality of the research, and application potential. It seems appropriate that
a "double motion-compensated transform" should receive two awards.
Information about the Annual Workshop and Advisory Board Meeting of the Max Planck Center
November 14 and 15, 2006 at Stanford University, Packard Building
Please visit
this website for a schedule of the meeting.
Best Student Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
Max Planck Center doctoral candidate
David Varodayan
won a Best Student Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing for his paper "Distributed
Coding of Random Dot Stereograms with Unsupervised Learning of Disparity," coauthored by MPC doctoral candidate
Aditya Mavlankar, MPC fellow
Markus Flierl, and
Bernd Girod.
New International Master Course of Studies: Visual Computing at Saarland University
Visual impressions constitute the most important sensory information for humans. Therefore, also more and more
informations are represented by digital images and visual simulations. This can be seen in numerous application
fields including industrial quality control, medical imaging, driver assistance systems, robot navigation, multimedia
systems, and computer games.
The entire field of acquiring, analysing and synthesising visual data by means of computers is called visual
computing. It requires a profound and interdisciplinary scientific knowledge, in particular in computer science,
mathematics, physics, and engineering, but also biology and cognitive sciences play a role. However, hardly any
university offers such a broad spectrum within a single course of studies.
As of winter term 2006/2007, Saarland University is offering a novel interdisciplinary master course of
studies that is entirely devoted to visual computing. It includes classes and seminars on
- image acquisition and geometric foundations
- image analysis (image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition)
- image synthesis (computer graphics, scientific visualisation, geometric modelling)
- related fields such as telecommunications, machine learning, artificial intelligence, signal processing,
computational linguistics, medical engineering, cognitive sciences
- necessary foundations in mathematics, computer science, physics, and mechatronics.
For detailed information, please visit the
website of the master course.
Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication at the CeBIT 2006
Dr. Holger Theisel was presenting his
results at the future talk during the CeBIT 2006: "Klare
Strukturen aus riesigen Datenmengen: Topologische Visualisierung komplexer Strömungsdaten"
("Clear Structures Created from Huge Amounts of Data: Topological Visualization of Complex Flow Data")
on Friday, March 10, 2006.
The future talk forum is hosting a daily program of
lectures and platform discussions on topics, as well as showcasing new developments and exhibits that give a
fascinating insight in the technological standards of the future.
On Sunday, March 12, 2006 there was a talk about the Max Planck Center:"Saarbrücken und Stanford:
Transatlantischer Brückenschlag im Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication"
("Saarbrücken and Stanford: A Transatlantic Briding in the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and
Communication"), by Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter
Seidel and Christel Weins from the
Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication.
Please feel free to download the program of the communication forum "future talk" here (PDF, available in German only).
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Information about the Review Meeting of the Max Planck Center
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005 in the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken
