Meet us at Science Day 2025 in Kiel from  14:00-21:00 to learn more about speech-based robot control: link. 

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M. Sc. Samira Huber joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.

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The radio channel SWR Kultur (Impuls) is broadcasting an interview with Prof. Pirk on robots for combating wildfires: link. 

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Our paper on simulating the extinction of fire was accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH Asia: link. 

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Several news outlets report on our work on fire-aware robot navigation that is supported by the Landesfeuerwehrschule Schleswig-Holstein (link): Zeit.de, Stern.de, Kieler Nachrichten, Berliner Morgenpost, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Salzburger Nachrichten. 

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The Weltspiegel shows an interview with Prof. Pirk on Wildfires (link). 

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​The VCAI group is excited to receive support for high-performance computing from the NHR Alliance (link). 

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Together with our Spot robot we are attending Coding Waterkant (link).

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The VCAI lab is hosting a workshop with international collaborators and friends from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, and Purdue University, USA. 

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Our paper on real super-resolution of the proximal femur was accepted to the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2025).

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The VCAI lab is excited to host students for the software challenge with a project on our Spot robot (link). 

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Our paper on simluating the combustion of generalized wooden structures was accepted to the 24th ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2025: link.

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The VCAI group is excited to receive the funding approval for our Visual AI Server at Kiel University handed over by Minister Schrödter: link, link. 

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​Our short paper on FemoraLyze, a modular framework for proximal femur analysis was accepted at Medical Imaging with Deep Learning 2025: link.

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Our paper on modeling tree dynamics with a strand-based representation was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025: link.

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Our paper on reconstructing forests from point cloud data was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (link). 

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The VCAI lab hosted 12 students for Girls's Day to work on Generative AI and AI for autonomous agents (link). 

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The Marine Data Science (link) and Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence groups receive funding to acquire a Visual AI Server (link). 

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The NDR Schleswig-Holstein Magazin visited us to report on our work on fire-aware robot navigation: link

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Several newspapers report on our work on building wildfire twins: Frankfurter Rundschau, Schleswig-Holsteiner Zeitung, Die Rheinpfalz, Bild.de.

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Our paper on modeling hair with learned parametric representation was accepted to ICLR 2025: link.

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M. Sc. Ashwath Shetty joined the research group Visiting Researcher. View Profile: link.

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The VCAI group received an ERC Consolidator grant (link, link) to work on digital twins for wildfires.

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Prof. Pirk talked about Generative AI and Synthetic Data at the KI.SH Networking event: link. 

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It was a pleasure to join the CAU-Delegation to Poznań: link.

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M. Sc. Yujun Wang joined the research group as a PhD Student and Research Assistant. View Profile: link.

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Our work on advanced Simulations of Wildfire Dynamics was presented at the Wildland Fire Canada Conference (WFCC) in New Brunswick: link.

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It was a pleasure to attend the International Conference on Social Robotics (link) in Odense (Denmark) to present our work on gesutre-aware imitation learning: link.

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Anton Wagner joined the research group as a Technical Assistant. View Profile: link.​