Steinbeis Research Center Computer Graphics and Digitalization

• Applied research projects
• Geometry- and reflection property acquisition
• Software prototyping
• Consulting services
• Expert's reports and feasibility studies
• Courses and Training

• Data Acquisition:
  • Capturing, processing, and compression of reflection functions from various materials
  • BRDF, BTF, BSSRDF, SVBRDF, spectral effects
  • Digital capturing, processing, and compression of light source radiation characteristics
  • Holisitic capturing of geometry, texture and reflective behaviours
• Material Design:
  • Texture-, BTF-, SVBRDF-, and geometry synthesis
  • Editing and interpolation of measured materials
• Parametrization of 3D models:
  • Support for non-manifold, self-intersecting models with low connectivity ("polygon soup")
  • Widely automated processing of big data sets
  • Automated shadow baking
• Real Time Graphics (Unity, Unreal):
  • High performance visualization of realistic materials
  • Interactive material editing
  • Video streaming, especially to mobile- and low-cost devices  
• Augmented Reality (AR):
  • Tracking
  • Illumination harmonization
• Content-based Search in 3D-Data Sets:
  • Automatic indexing and classification
  • Query-by-example
  • Browsing
• Image Processing (2D):
  • Automatic and semi-automatic object segmentation
  • Camera pose estimation
• Product Configuration:
• Feasibility analysis
• Automatic generation of configuration propositions

Ongoing projects:

• Since 2012: Consulting and support for automatic variant configuration and image generation in the Volkswagen Car Configurator https://www.volkswagen.de/app/konfigurator/vw-de/de
• Since 2016: Automatic generation of UV-layouts for polygon soups for texture mapping and shadow calculation in real time graphics applications
• Since 2016: High performance visualization and editing of measured materials within the real time graphics engines Unity and Unreal
• Since 2017: Study of illumination harmonization for augmented reality applications

Completed projects:

• (BMWi) 2008-2010, in cooperation with RSS GmbH: Development of efficient methods for the automatic reconstruction and visualization of high resolution 3D city models