Universität Ulm

Dominik Engel joined the Visual Computing Research Group in December 2018. He completed his Ph.D. in May 2024. Prior to that He finished his M.Sc. in 2018 with a focus on Computer Vision, Computer Graphics and Deep Learning. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in 2016, also at the University of Ulm. Find newest updates on https://dominikengel.com.

Research interests

  • Deep Learning Techniques for Computer Graphics
  • Deep Learning in Volume Rendering
  • Differentiable & Neural Rendering
  • Self-Supervised Training and its Emerging Applications

Teaching

Lectures

  • Deep Learning for Graphics and Visualization [Contributed Chapter: Generative Models Chapter]
  • Deep Learning for Graphics and Visualization Summer School 2019
  • Deep Learning for Graphics and Visualization Lecture & Exercise [WT19/20, WT20/21, WT21/22]
  • 3D Deep Learning [Contributed Chapters: Automatic Differentiation, Differentiable Rendering, Neural Radiance Fields]
  • 3D Deep Learning Exercise [WT23/24]
  • Visual Computing Seminar Bachelor [ST19, WT19/20, ST20, WT20/21, ST21, WT21/22, ST22, WT22/23, ST23]
  • Visual Computing Seminar Master [ST19, WT19/20, ST20, WT20/21, ST21, WT21/22, ST22, WT23/24]

Finished Theses

  • Tushar Singhal - “Efficient Fine-Tuning of Stable Diffusion for Novel View Synthesis” (Master Thesis)
  • Michael Nix - “Recognition and Tracking of Real-World Objects in Mixed Reality Environments” (Master Thesis)
  • Luca Dubies - “Neural Audio Fields” (Master Thesis)
  • Jan Haßler - “Differentiable Rendering for Constructive Solid Geometry” (Master Thesis)
  • Niklas Trieu - “Generative Models for Order-Independent Point Clouds” (Bachelor Thesis)
  • Jannes Lehwald - “Development of a Context-Aware Simulation-Based Worker Assistance using Human Simulation Data” (Master Thesis)

Finished Projects

  • Deep Learning Dataset Generation using Mitsuba2
  • Differentiable Depth Raycasting

Open Thesis and Project Topics

As I will finish my journey here at Ulm Univeristy soon, I am no longer available for theses or projects.

Publications

12 papers
S2D: Sparse-To-Dense Keymask Distillation for Unsupervised Video Instance Segmentation
S2D: Sparse-To-Dense Keymask Distillation for Unsupervised Video Instance Segmentation
Leon Sick, Lukas Hoyer, Dominik Engel, Pedro Hermosilla, Timo Ropinski
NeurIPS 2026 ‹›Code
CutS3D: Cutting Semantics in 3D for 2D Unsupervised Instance Segmentation
CutS3D: Cutting Semantics in 3D for 2D Unsupervised Instance Segmentation
Leon Sick, Dominik Engel, Sebastian Hartwig, Pedro Hermosilla, Timo Ropinski
ICCV 2025 ▶Video
Attention-Guided Masked Autoencoders For Learning Image Representations
Attention-Guided Masked Autoencoders For Learning Image Representations
Leon Sick, Dominik Engel, Pedro Hermosilla, Timo Ropinski
WACV 2025
HPSCAN: Human Perception-Based Scattered Data Clustering
HPSCAN: Human Perception-Based Scattered Data Clustering
Sebastian Hartwig, Christian van Onzenoodt, Dominik Engel, Pedro Hermosilla, Timo Ropinski
CGF 2025 ↓PDF
Towards Differentiable Electron Microscopy Simulation: Methods and Applications
Towards Differentiable Electron Microscopy Simulation: Methods and Applications
Ngan Nguyen, Feng Liang, Dominik Engel, Ciril Bohak, Peter Wonka, Timo Ropinski, Ivan Viola
PacificVis 2024
Evaluating Text-to-Image Synthesis: Survey and Taxonomy of Image Quality Metrics
Evaluating Text-to-Image Synthesis: Survey and Taxonomy of Image Quality Metrics
Sebastian Hartwig, Dominik Engel, Leon Sick, Hannah Kniesel, Tristan Payer, Poonam Poonam, Michael Glöckler, Alex Bäuerle, Timo Ropinski
arXiv ↓PDF
Monocular Depth Decomposition of Semi-Transparent Volume Renderings
Monocular Depth Decomposition of Semi-Transparent Volume Renderings
Dominik Engel, Sebastian Hartwig, Timo Ropinski
TVCG 2023 ↓PDF ‹›Code
Finding Nano-Ötzi: Semi-Supervised Volume Visualization for Cryo-Electron Tomography
Finding Nano-Ötzi: Semi-Supervised Volume Visualization for Cryo-Electron Tomography
Ngan Nguyen, Ciril Bohak, Dominik Engel, Peter Mindek, Ondrej Strnad, Peter Wonka, Sai Li, Timo Ropinski, Ivan Viola
TVCG 2022 ↓PDF ‹›Code
Property-Based Testing for Visualization Development
Property-Based Testing for Visualization Development
Michael Stegmaier, Dominik Engel, Jannik Olbrich, Timo Ropinski, Matthias Tichy
EuroVis 2021 ↓PDF ‹›Code ▶Video
Deep Volumetric Ambient Occlusion
Deep Volumetric Ambient Occlusion
Dominik Engel, Timo Ropinski
SciVis 2020 ↓PDF ‹›Code ▶Video
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