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Paper acceptances, preprints, awards and group updates — the complete record.

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Year
114 entries

2026

6
Jun 11, 2026
Paper on semantic transformer for 3D scene understanding accepted at TMLR TMLR 2026
Jun 8, 2026
Paper on explainable federated learning accepted at XAI 2026 XAI 2026
May 18, 2026
Paper on Bar-JEPA: Extracting Values from Bar Chart with Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture accepted at ICDAR 2026 ICDAR 2026
Apr 14, 2026
Paper on PaCoNet: Deep Data Extraction for Parallel Coordinates accepted at ICPR 2026 ICPR 2026
Mar 20, 2026
PhD Candidate Daniel received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the German Conference on Medical Image Computing (BVM) 2026
Jan 12, 2026
Preprint on S2D: Sparse-To-Dense Keymask Distillation for Unsupervised Video Instance Segmentation available on arXiv arXiv

2025

15
Dec 17, 2025
Preprint on UNITE - Unified Semantic Transformer for 3D Scene Understanding available on arXiv arXiv
Oct 16, 2025
Paper on Graphical Perception Capabilities of Vision Transformers accepted at CaG CG 2025
Sep 25, 2025
Paper on OpenHype for Hierarchical 3D Embeddings accepted at NeurIPS 2025 NeurIPS 2025
Aug 1, 2025
Paper on ControlNet-Guided EM Augmentation accepted at ICCVW BIC 2025 ICCVW 2025
Jun 30, 2025
Paper on CutS3D for unsupervised instance segmentation accepted at ICCV 2025
Jun 17, 2025
Survey on quality metrics for text-to-image generation accepted at IEEE TVCG TVCG 2025
Jun 17, 2025
Paper on VLM analysis of medical data accepted at MICCAI 2025 MICCAI 2025
Jun 16, 2025
Paper on DeepEM Toolbox accepted in Journal of Microscopy jmi 2025
Jun 9, 2025
Paper on human behavior prediction with LLMs accepted at RO-MAN 2025 RO-MAN 2025
May 14, 2025
Paper on interpretable medical image classification using prototype learning accepted at PeerJ
Apr 10, 2025
Paper on evaluating foveated frame rate reduction for head-mounted displays accepted at ETVIS 2025 ETVIS 2025
Mar 13, 2025
Preprint on guiding diffusion models available on arXiv arXiv
Mar 1, 2025
Paper on masked scene modeling for pre-training in 3D accepted at CVPR 2025
Feb 27, 2025
Paper on 3D RelationFields accepted at CVPR 2025 CVPR 2025
Jan 8, 2025
Paper on perception-based clustering accepted at CGF

2024

12
Dec 20, 2024
Preprint on RelationField to relate anything in NeRFs available on arXiv
Dec 6, 2024
Preprint on 3D-semantic unsupervised instance segmentation available on arXiv
Dec 6, 2024
PhD Candidate Leon Sick was recognized as a top reviewer at NeurIPS 2024
Dec 6, 2024
Paper on attention-guided MAEs accepted at WACV 2025 as an oral presentation WACV 2025
Oct 18, 2024
Paper on self-supervised medical pre-training accepted at Computers in Biology and Medicine (together with Radiology Department) CIBM 2024
May 7, 2024
Paper on self-supervised ViTs for volume data classification accepted at IEEE TVCG
Mar 18, 2024
Preprint on text-to-image synthesis quality metrics available on arXiv arXiv
Mar 7, 2024
Paper on open-vocabulary 3D scene graphs accepted at CVPR 2024
Mar 7, 2024
Paper on depth-guided unsupervised semantic segmentation accepted at CVPR 2024
Feb 7, 2024
Paper on VR-based visualization accepted at JapanVis 2024 JapanVis 2024
Feb 2, 2024
Paper on differentiable electron microscopy accepted at PacificVis 2024 PacificVis 2024
Jan 18, 2024
Paper on weakly supervised virus detection accepted at ICLR 2024 ICLR 2024

2023

13
Oct 31, 2023
Paper on self-supervised medical pre-training accepted at Nature Scientific Reports (together with Radiology Department) Nature Scientific Reports 2023
Oct 24, 2023
Paper on self-supervised 3D scene graph learning accepted at WACV 2024 WACV 2024
Oct 23, 2023
Preprint on depth-guided unsupervised segmentation available on arXiv CVPR 2024
Oct 15, 2023
Paper on contrastive 3D scene graph learning accepted at 3DV 2024 3DV 2024
Sep 12, 2023
Succesful PhD Defense by Michael Schelling
Sep 4, 2023
Preprint on ViTs for neural transfer functions available on arXiv TVCG 2024
Aug 18, 2023
Paper on medical volume segmentation through overfitting accepted at J. Med. Imaging SPIE JMI 2023
Apr 28, 2023
Preprint on ClusterNet available on arXiv
Apr 26, 2023
Short Paper on image exploration accepted at EuroVis 2023 EuroVis 2023
Apr 3, 2023
Preprint on LLM evaluation available on arXiv arXiv
Mar 22, 2023
Paper on Medical XAI accepted at RöFo RöFo 2023
Feb 15, 2023
Paper on Medical XAI Ethics accepted in Ethics in Medicine EidM 2023
Feb 9, 2023
Paper on Monocular Depth Estimation accepted at IEEE TVCG TVCG 2023

2022

11
Oct 11, 2022
Paper on optical flow for ToF accepted at WACV 2023 WACV 2023
Oct 10, 2022
Paper on glyphs in 2D embeddings accepted at IEEE TVCG TVCG 2022
Jul 5, 2022
Timo Ropinski serves as full papers co-chair of IEEE PacificVis 2023
Jul 3, 2022
Paper on point NN weight initialization accepted at ECCV 2022 ECCV 2022
Jun 21, 2022
Paper on viewpoint learning accepted at CGF CGF 2022
Jun 2, 2022
Paper on ML interfaces accepted at CHI 2022 CHI 2022
May 26, 2022
Paper on Missing Data in Parallel Coordinates accepted at EuroVis 2022 EuroVis 2022
May 16, 2022
Paper on ToF Denoising accepted at CVPR 2022 CVPR 2022
May 16, 2022
Paper on EM Denoising accepted at CVPR 2022 CVPR 2022
Jan 20, 2022
Paper on Gaussian mixture convolutions accepted at ICLR 2022 ICLR 2022
Jan 9, 2022
Timo Ropinski is co-chairing the first IEEE VIS TestVis workshop

2021

9
Dec 5, 2021
Timo Ropinski joins the IEEE TVCG editorial board
Dec 4, 2021
Project Aucity3 targeting AR techniques funded by BMBF
Jul 5, 2021
Timo Ropinski serves as full papers co-chair of IEEE PacificVis 2022
Mar 23, 2021
Succesful PhD Defense by Julian Kreiser
Feb 24, 2021
Paper on Medical Segmentation accepted at SPIE Medical Imaging 2021 MIC 2021
Feb 23, 2021
Succesful PhD Defense by Sebastian Maisch
Feb 9, 2021
Paper on View Point Learning accepted at Eurographics 2021 Eurographics 2021
Feb 9, 2021
Paper on Blue Noise Plots accepted at Eurographics 2021 Eurographics 2021
Jan 15, 2021
Project RACOON targeting COVID Imaging funded by BMBF

2020

5
Jun 23, 2020
Paper on Shape Overlap in Scatterplots accepted in Computers & Graphics C&G 2020
Apr 1, 2020
Paper on Noisy Label Correction accepted in Computer Graphics Forum CGF 2020
Jan 28, 2020
Paper on Visualization Software accepted in Computers & Graphics C&G 2020
Jan 21, 2020
Paper on Neural Weight Space Analysis accepted at ECAI 2020
Jan 19, 2020
Invited talk on Literature Analysis by Pere-Pau Vázquez

2019

16
Dec 29, 2019
Paper on EM Analysis accepted in Journal of Microscopy jmi 2020
Nov 5, 2019
Invited talk on Advances and Challenges of Deep Learning in Health Care by Timo Ropinski at Ulm University
Sep 11, 2019
Project TRANSNAV on Navigation System for Transvascular Interventions funded by BMBF
Sep 11, 2019
Invited talk on recent work in the area of visual computing by Timo Ropinski at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Aug 25, 2019
Panel contribution at annual Eurographics' Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) in Brno
Aug 25, 2019
Invited talk on Recent Advances in Deep Learning Systems by Pedro Hermosilla and Timo Ropinski at symposium to support young accademics
Aug 23, 2019
Project on Attention-based Segmentation and Reconstruction of Macromolecular Structures (ABEM) funded by Wurttemberg Stiftung
Jul 24, 2019
Paper on learning-based noise removal for point cloud data accepted at ICCV 2019 ICCV 2019
Jul 22, 2019
Invited talk on Perception Based Biomedical Visualization by Timo Ropinski at Working Group Visualization in Biology and Medicine Meeting at TU Berlin
Jul 17, 2019
Summer school: Deep Learning for Graphics and Visualization
Jul 6, 2019
Paper on Void Space Surfaces to Convey Depth in Vessel Visualizations accepted at IEEE TVCG IEEE VIS 2020
Jul 3, 2019
New software release of Inviwo visualization system
Jun 27, 2019
Paper on Deep-learning the Latent Space of Light Transport accepted at EGSR 2019 CGF 2019
Jun 16, 2019
Tutorial on Machine Learning by Pedro Hermosilla and Timo Ropinski at EG VCBM
Jun 1, 2019
Paper on multi-level-abstraction within the Inviwo visualization system (Inviwo) accepted at IEEE TVCG
Jan 5, 2019
Projekt on 3D Camera Electro Absorptions Modulato (DREAM) funded by Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung

2018

11
Nov 7, 2018
Project on mixed reality visualizations in the context of higher education teaching (Aucity2) funded by BMBF
Aug 10, 2018
Invited talk on Experiences in immersive spaces for real-time visualization by Erik Sundén, Linköping University
May 16, 2018
Prof. Ropinski elected chairman of the GI Section "Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine"
May 8, 2018
Paper on projection techniques for medical visualization accepted at EuroVis 2018 CGF 2018
May 8, 2018
Paper on improved shading of molecular surfaces accepted at EuroVis 2018 CGF 2018
Feb 26, 2018
NVIDIA grant supporting our Deep Learning Research with a NVIDIA Quadro P6000 GPU
Feb 23, 2018
Project on the visual analysis of protein-ligand interactions funded by DFG
Feb 22, 2018
Invited Talk on Visual Text Analytics by Steffen Koch
Jan 17, 2018
Project on the Inviwo visualization framework is funded by the DFG
Jan 16, 2018
Paper on reconstructing 3D volumes from single X-ray images accepted at Eurographics 2018 CGF 2018
Jan 8, 2018
Paper on qualitative and quantitative evaluation of semi-transparency effects in direct volume rendering accepted in Computer Graphics Forum CGF 2018

2017

8
Nov 6, 2017
Paper on Visually Supporting Multiple Needle Placement in Irreversible Electroporation Interventions accepted in Computer Graphics Forum CGF 2017
Nov 6, 2017
Invited talk on Computing the Best Image Possible by Tobias Ritsche
Aug 7, 2017
Paper on Decision Graph Embedding for High-Resolution Manometry Diagnosis accepted at IEEE VIS 2017 TVCG 2017
Jul 29, 2017
Paper on Evaluating the Influence of Stereoscopy on Cluster Perception in Scatterplots accepted at SIGRAD 2017 SIGRAD 2017
Jul 27, 2017
Paper on Visual Analysis of Stochastic Trajectory Ensembles in Organic Solar Cell Design accepted in the journal 'informatics' I 2017
Jul 25, 2017
Invited talk on Rendering Volumetric Models in Commodity Hardware by Pere-Pau Vázquez
Feb 15, 2017
Paper on a data structure that can be used to render translucency effects in real time accepted at Eurographics 2017 CGF 2017
Jan 1, 2017
Best Paper Award for our paper “Evaluating the Perception of Semi-Transparent Structure in Direct Volume Rendering Techniques” at Siggraph Asia Visualization Symposium 2016 SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016

2016

4
Jul 25, 2016
Paper on a new tool for blood flow visualisation accepted at EG VCBM 2016 SIGRAD 2016
Jul 15, 2016
Invited talk on Visual Analytics in Population Data by Bernhard Preim (Uni Magdeburg)
Jul 12, 2016
Paper on Physics-based Visual Characterization of Molecular Interaction Forces accepted at IEEE SciVis 2016 IEEE VIS 2017
Jun 7, 2016
Student project Midosa winning the Audi App Challenge 2016

2015

4
Sep 18, 2015
Symposium on Molecular Visualization presents solutions to molecular visualization by international experts of the field
Jul 13, 2015
Paper on visualization techniques that have been developed together with NASA researchers accepted at IEEE VIS 2015
Jul 13, 2015
Paper on new algorithms for molecular visualization accepted at IEEE VIS 2015 SciVis 2015
May 21, 2015
Invited talk on modeling volume rendering architectures in the face of large data sets by Jose Díaz (CRS4, Cagliari)