Our Open Reassembly project was featured at this year‘s Buch Wien festival as part of the Science Lounge program.

The event took place from November 20th to 24th and featured a wide range of activities, including book presentations, author interviews, panel discussions, and workshops, fostering a vibrant exchange of ideas within the literary community. This year, a focus was on citizen science – a perfect fit for Open Reassembly.

In our Open Reassembly project, we approach the complex task of reassembling archaeological artifacts as a collaborative
process, where many participants work alongside computational methods to achieve successful reassembly. Several school
classes visited us during the exhibition to test their puzzle-solving skills.

For more information about Buch Wien and Open Reassembly,
visit
https://www.buchwien.at/programm/mitforschen-gaming-4-science/

We congratulate the authors Irena Ruprecht, Florian Michelic, Eva Eggeling and Reinhold Preiner for presenting there paper titled "Adaptive Movement Behavior for Real-Time Crowd Simulation" on the CGI'24 on July 01. - 05., 2024.

This paper introduces a new method for modeling adaptice movement in real-time crowd simulations. It efficiently combines global path planning and local collision avoidance to improve performance and agent behavior. The approach uses a direction-aware approach for selecting relevant neigbor agents and blends goal-oriented and avoidance strategies. It integrates seamlessly with existing simulation techniques and enhances both performance and control over agent movement.

We sucessfullly got the opportunity to share our paper titled "InceptCurves: Curve Reconstruction Using an Inception" with an international audience of experts and parctitioners, at the CGI'24 on July 01-.05. 2024. Congratulation to the authors Saeedeh Barzegar Khalilsaraei, Alexander Komar, Jianmin Zheng and Ursula Augsdörfer.

InceptCurves is an inception-layered deep neural network structure, capable of learning simultaneously the number of control points and their positions in order to reconstruct the curve.

It was nice to welcome Stefan Ohrhallinger and Diana Marin from TU Wien, who presented their work on curve and surface reconstruction at our institute on the 28^th of May. Mr. Ohrhallinger is working on curve and surface reconstruction for the last 13 years, while Mrs. Marin has been working on topics related to computer graphics since her Master at Leeds University and focused on curve reconstruction during hr PhD. It was an interesting talk with many insights, which was following up by a lively research discussion with some good food.

We congratulate PhD student Mariia Tytarenko on her first conference presentation at the 15th International EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics on May 27 in Odense, Denmark. The research paper "Hierarchical Topic Maps for Visual Exploration and Comparison of Documents"

constitutes a novel approach for topic-based document exploration, inspired by a tilebar metaphor.

We congratulate Simon Kloiber to the successful defense of his PhD thesis titled "Data in Motion - Immersive Analytics of Spatio-Temporal Data in Virtual Reality" on April 26, 2024. The image (left) shows Prof. Bernhard Aichernig (dean of studies and head of examination committee, TU Graz), Simon Kloiber, and Prof. Tobias Schreck (advisor, TU Graz). Visible in the image top right is TT-Prof. Tiare  Feuchtner (University of Konstanz) who served as external reviewer and examiner. Simon's PhD research was conducted within the FFG project VR4CPPS and follow-up projects.