About me

Dieter Schmalstieg is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is also an adjunct professor at the Institute of Visual Computing at Graz University of Technology, Austria. His current research interests are augmented reality, virtual reality, computer graphics, visualization and human-computer interaction. He received Dipl.-Ing. (1993), Dr. techn. (1997) and Habilitation (2001) from Vienna University of Technology. He is author and co-author of over 400 peer-reviewed scientific publications with over 30,000 citations and over twenty best paper awards and nominations. His current and past organizational roles include associate editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, associate editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, member of the steering committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, chair of the EUROGRAPHICS working group on Virtual Environments, and key researcher of the K-Plus Competence Centers VRVis (Vienna) and Know-Center (Graz). In 2002, he received the START career award presented by the Austrian Science Fund. In 2008, he founded the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Handheld Augmented Reality. In 2012, he received the IEEE Virtual Reality technical achievement award, and, in 2020, the IEEE ISMAR Career Impact Award. He was elected as Fellow of IEEE, as a member of the Young Curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy.

Augmented Reality Principles & Practice

Team

VISUS, University of Stuttgart ——– Institute of Visual Computing, Graz

Current research areas

Real-time graphics

Level of detail, potentially visible sets, streaming rendering, frame extrapolation

Disocclusion Buffer	NeuralPVS	Laced Wires
Trim Regions	Temporally Adaptive Shading Atlas	Shading Atlas Streaming

Situated visualizations

AR instructions, context-aware visualization, visualization toolkits

CECILIA	AR assembly guidance with error management	guitARhero
AR Visualization Patterns	RagRug

Photorealistic augmented reality

Camera simulation, differential rendering

Neural Bokeh

Learning lightprobes

Instant relighting

Image-based modeling and rendering

Diminished reality, mediated reality, telepresence, scene capturing, light fields, radiance fields

Sorted Opacity Fields	AAA Gaussians	VR Photo Inpainting
Good Keyframes to Inpaint	Instant	MR Light Fields

3D reconstruction and authoring

Semantic and parameterized reconstruction, interactive capturing guidance, prodedure authoring

Subsurface infrastructure reconstruction	AuthXR	IntelliCap
Model-free AR instructions	Authoring of AR surface instructions	Technical Document Retargeting to AR