Computer Graphics Research Group

Current Research and development projects:

IKTA-KÉPI: Photorealistic Image Synthesis for CAD
OKTA T029135: High-speed Global Illumination Rendering Algorithms.
Material Model and Global Illumination Plug-in development for Maya.
General purpose Object Oriented Process Visualization System (OPV5) under OSF/MOTIF.
Global Radiosity and Global Global Illumination (with the University of Girona).
Advanced Rendering Techniques (with the Computer Graphics Group of the Vienna University of Technology).
3D Graphics terminal emulation on IBM PC (Tektronix 4129).
Terrain modeling for civil engineering.
User interface for CASE tools and MIS programs.
Object oriented extension of POV-RAY ray tracer.
Keyframe animation system in OPEN GL and in Windows environment.
PC-based helicopter simulator

Real time global illumination on the GPU.
Global-illumination rendering with Monte-Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods.
Optical material models (BRDF) and importance sampling.
Complexity evaluation of rendering algoritms. Average-case complexity.
High-speed rendering, graphics algorithms and their hardware implementation.
Ray-tracing and its speed-up using coherence methods. Object coherence theorems, application of Voronoi diarams.
Terrain modeling. Voronoi diagrams in the reconstruction of surfaces from scattered points.
User interfaces and man-computer interaction. Development of formal methods to descibe the human interaction. Object oriented and functional modeling in human interaction. Display of non-geometric data (graphs, functions, processes). User interface class libraries.
Process visualization. Object oriented graphics. Medical Imaging.