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At the beginning of December, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD and the INI-GraphicsNet Foundation honored researchers for outstanding achievements for the tenth time at the Computer Graphics Evening. Nearly 200 guests attended the event. In his guest lecture, Prof. Dr. Peter Astheimer of ITI Techmedia in Glasgow described his career after his time at Fraunhofer.
A jury chaired by Prof. Reinhard Klein selected the winners from 40 “Selected Readings.” Four teams of authors received Best Paper awards. In the Research category, first place went to Prof. Stefan Roth and Michael J. Black for “Steerable Random Fields,” which presents new methods for image restoration and reconstruction, and to Prof. Michael Goesele, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, Hugues Hoppe and Steven M. Seitz for “Multi-View Stereo for Community Photo Collections,” on creating 3D models of historic buildings and works of art from amateur photographs found on internet photo portals. In the Systems and Applications category, two second-place awards went to Yvonne Jung, Tobias Franke, Patrick Dähne and Johannes Behr for “Enhancing X3D for Advanced MR Appliances,” and to Robert Leeb, Volker Settgast, Prof. Dieter Fellner and Prof. Gert Pfurtscheller for “Self-paced Exploration of the Austrian National Library through Thought.” The winners received prize money and a one-year Eurographics membership.
To mark the tenth anniversary, two patent applications were also honored. Prof. Dieter Fellner presented the awards to Xuebing Zhou and Claudia Nickel. Zhou and Martin Schmucker were recognized for “Method and Device for Efficient Verification of the Authenticity and Integrity of an Identity Document.” Nickel and Schmucker received an award for “Automatic Detection of Manipulation in Multimedia Data Using Perception-Based Checksums.”
Best Thesis Awards went to Ulrich Krispel for “Optimization Techniques for Generative Model Evaluation,” Markus Cetti for “Efficient Ray Intersection Calculation for Subdivision Surfaces Using View-Dependent Patches,” and Christian Maus for “Markerless Optical Camera Tracking and Geometry Reconstruction in Real Time Using Statistical Methods.” Jurors Prof. Wolfgang Müller-Wittig and Prof. Michael Goesele presented the awards.
Graduation certificates were presented for dissertations by Konrad Klein on automating 3D reconstruction from multiple depth images by optimizing predicted quality gains; Harald Wüst on efficient characterization and management of line and patch features for real-time camera tracking; Patrick Dähne on a framework for mobile augmented-reality applications; Evelyn Firle on automatic multimodal nonrigid registration and visualization of medical datasets; Ilias Sachpazidis on image and medical-data communication protocols for telemedicine and teleradiology; and Wolfgang Funk on digital watermarking of NURBS-based 3D CAD models.
