Our paper submission “Computer-Assisted Collaborative Fragment Matching of Incomplete Stone Artifacts” to the 22nd Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2024), which took place in Darmstadt (Germany) September 16th - 18th, 2024, was awarded the Best Paper Award.

The award was a 3D print of the fossil of a prehistoric horse found at the Messel Fossil Site. The fossil was digitized by the first autonomous scanning robot that delivers precise, color accurate scans in repeatable, high quality. The robot was developed by Fraunhofer IGD.

We are proud and grateful for this special, limited edition “trophy”!

For more info about the fossil and the digitization process with the 3D scanning robot, please visit:
https://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en/media-center/press-releases/autonomous-high-quality-3d-scans-without-manual-postprocessing.html

We would like to thank our colleagues from the Department of Classics, University of Graz, for the scientific collaboration, the museum Schloss Bruck (Lienz) for providing stone fragments for this project, and the province of Styria for funding our research project (ABT12-603763/2022):
https://www.wissenschaft.steiermark.at/

We are proud to announce that our painted pottery unwrapping method “Direct Elastic Unrollings of Painted Pottery Surfaces from Sparse Image Sets”, published at the 19th Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2021), which took place at Bournemouth University (United Kingdom) from November 4th - 6th, 2021, was used to produce the title image of this year’s Austrian CVA Meeting.

The unrolled, distortion-minimized holistic view of the entire painted vase surface was created from 4 standard photogaphs of the vase.

Our latest research on "Interaction Visualization for Analysing and Improving User Models" was presented by Stefan Lengauer at the 32nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2024), held at the University of Cagliari, from July 1st till July 4th.

The work, which is part of the A+CHIS project, was among the 18 accepted entries of a total of 47 submissions to the Late-Breaking Results and Demos track.

The novel approach, which allows expert users to analyse, validate, and even improve upon user models was well-received and lead to several fruitful discussions.

Three very different and interesting CGV papers were presented at WSCG 2024. Congratulations to all students who presented!

• Gamillscheg, F., Ruprecht, I., Settgast, V., Pietroszek, K., Augsdörfer, U.: Brain Computer Interfacing with a Virtual Environment
• Komar, A., Kammerer, M., Barzegar Khalilsaraei, S., Augsdörfer, U.: LatEd: A Geometric Latent Vector Editor
• Komar, A., Riegler, M., Preiner, R., Augsdörfer, U.: Genetic Subdivision Curve and Surface Reconstruction

Congratulations to all authors !

We had a visit from the vice-rector Stefan Vorbach at the CGV, who brought a little token of appreciation for Ursula Augsdörfer to say thank you for her engagement as dean of study of the faculty CSBME. Although time consuming, Ursula Augsdörfer enjoyed her time working together with colleagues and the vice-rectorate to improve various processes related to the studies at our faculty.

As can be seen on the photo, Ursula Augsdörfer was happy about the food package vice-rector Stefan Vorbach presented her with.