Werner Purgathofer

Function

retired Professor of Practical Informatics at TU Wien
President of the VRVis Research Center Association

Teaching

no more teaching due to retirement :-)

Research Work

Interests

Rendering, Virtual Reality, Color, Visualization, Visual Analytics

Hobbies

orienteering, jogging, skiing, playing piano, reading, trying to learn Spanish, ballroom dancing

Other Information

My brother Peter also works for TU Wien.
The VIDEA story (spam conference)

Short Bio

Rendering, Virtual Reality, Color, Visualization, Visual Analytics, Graphics Utilities

Research Keywords

Colors for Computer Graphics
Computer Graphics
Rendering
Visualization
Computer Games

Awards

Guest Professor
2017 / Hebei University of Technology / China
Eurographics Gold Medal
2017 / Eurographics Association / Switzerland
Dr. honoris causa
2010 / Technische Universität Iasi / Romania
Distinguished Career Award
2006 / Eurographics Association / Switzerland
Member of the European Academy of Sciences
2003 / Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaft und Künste
Fellow der Europäischen Computergraphik-Vereinigung Eurographics
1997 / Eurographics Association / Switzerland

Attachments

News

Werner Purgathofer erhält Honorary Fellowship der Eurographics
posted on 11. Mar 2022
Werner Purgathofer retired
posted on 5. Oct 2021

Publications

277 Publications found:

Image	Bib Reference	Publication Type
2020
	Werner Purgathofer VR and Visualization in Industry, 19. October 2020, Nanchang, China	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer The Role of Visual Computing in the Digitization Process, 23. June 2020, Nanjing, China	Invited Talk
2018
	Werner Purgathofer Best Practice in Technology Transfer, 19. April 2018, Eurographics Industrial Presentations, Delft, NL	WorkshopTalk
	Werner Purgathofer Wolfgang Straßer Memorial Lecture:His Engagement for Vienna and Austria, 15. March 2018, Riezlern, A	Invited Talk
	Andreas Reichinger, H. G. Carrizosa, J. Wood, S. Schröder, C. Löw, Laura R. Luidolt , Maria Schimkowitsch, Anton Fuhrmann, Stefan Maierhofer, Werner Purgathofer Pictures in Your Mind: Using Interactive Gesture-Controlled Reliefs to Explore Art ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, (2), March 2018.	Journal Paper (without talk)
2017
	Werner Purgathofer From Visualization to Decision Support, 29. September 2017, Hangzhou, China	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer From Visualization to Decision Support, 28. September 2017, Nanjing, China	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Visual Computing als Interface zur Entscheidungsunterstützung, 4. July 2017, Wien	Invited Talk
2016
	Werner Purgathofer Visual Computing — a best practice from Vienna, 8. December 2016, Moskau	Invited Talk
	Andreas Reichinger, Stefan Maierhofer, Anton Fuhrmann, Werner Purgathofer Gesture-Based Interactive Audio Guide on Tactile Reliefs Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, October 2016. [image] [Paper]	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Andreas Reichinger, Werner Purgathofer Spaghetti, Sink and Sarcophagus: Design Explorations of Tactile Artworks for Visually Impaired People In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on CHI 2016. October 2016.	Conference Paper
	Andreas Reichinger, Anton Fuhrmann, Stefan Maierhofer, Werner Purgathofer A Concept for Re-Useable Interactive Tactile Reliefs In A Concept for Re-Useable Interactive Tactile Reliefs. 2016. [image] [paper]	Conference Paper
2015
	Werner Purgathofer , Clemens Arth, Dieter Schmalstieg Industrial Use of Mixed Reality in VRVis Projects In Proceedings of VISIC, pages 19-23. September 2015.	Conference Paper
	Werner Purgathofer Was ist denn Farbe eigentlich?, 2015, Kunst-Volkshochschule Wien	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Visual Computing in Österreich, 2015, Wien	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Computer Graphics in Real-World Applications, 2015, Wien	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Industrial Use of Mixed Reality in VRVis Projects, 2015, Beijing, China	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Überblick Visual Computing: Teilbereiche und Anwendungsfelder, 2015, Wien [Talk slides ]	Invited Talk
2014
	Kresimir Matkovic , Denis Gracanin, Rainer Splechtna, M. Jelovic, Benedikt Stehno, Helwig Hauser , Werner Purgathofer Visual Analytics for Complex Engineering Systems: Hybrid Visual Steering of Simulation Ensembles IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12):1803-1812, December 2014.	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Requirements on the Staff of an Application Oriented Research Organization In Current Issues of Science and Research in the Global World, December 2014	Article in a Book
	Manuela Waldner , Mathieu Le Muzic, Matthias Bernhard, Werner Purgathofer , Ivan Viola Attractive Flicker: Guiding Attention in Dynamic Narrative Visualizations IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12):2456-2465, December 2014. [paper] [Preview video] [Submission video]	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Werner Purgathofer , Hans Jürgen Pfisterer A Live Services Marketplace: Telepresence through Remote Humans TR-186-2-14-1, May 2014	Technical Report
	Werner Purgathofer Application Oriented Research at the VRVis Center, 2014, HS3, Währinger Str. 29, Informatik, Uni Wien	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Aspects of Scientific Research in Cooperation with Companies, 2014, Zürich, Switzerland	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Accurate Fast Simulation of Light, 2014, Ankara, Turkey	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Requirements on the Staff of an Application Oriented Research Organization, 2014, Vienna, Austria	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Computer Graphics in Vienna and at the VRVis Research Center, 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Invited Talk
2013
	Przemyslaw Musialski , Peter Wonka , Daniel G. Aliaga, Michael Wimmer , Luc van Gool, Werner Purgathofer A Survey of Urban Reconstruction Computer Graphics Forum, 32(6):146-177, September 2013. [draft]	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Irene Reisner-Kollmann, Stefan Maierhofer, Werner Purgathofer Reconstruction of Shape Boundaries with Multimodal Constrains Computer & Graphics, 37(3):137-147, May 2013. [Paper]	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Werner Purgathofer Accurate Fast Simulation of Light, 4. February 2013- 6. February 2013, Hernstein, Austria	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Visual Computing Research inspired by Applications, 2013, Graz	Invited Talk
2012
	Gottfried Eibner, Anton Fuhrmann, Werner Purgathofer GPU-based Multi-Resolution Image Analysis for Synthesis of Tileable Textures In Proceedings Intern. Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2012), pages 479-488. July 2012. [Paper]	Conference Paper
	Przemyslaw Musialski , Peter Wonka , Daniel G. Aliaga, Michael Wimmer , Luc van Gool, Werner Purgathofer A Survey of Urban Reconstruction In EUROGRAPHICS 2012 State of the Art Reports, pages 1-28. May 2012. [draft-hires] [draft-lowres]	Other Reviewed Publication
	Kresimir Matkovic , H. Gan, Andreas Ammer, D. Bennett, Werner Purgathofer , Marius Terblanche INTERACTIVE VISUAL ANALYSIS OF INTENSIVE CARE UNIT DATA: Relationship Between Serum Sodium Concentration, its Rate of Change, and Survival Outcome In Proceeding of IVAAP 2012, pages 648-659. February 2012. [Paper]	Conference Paper
	Andreas Reichinger, Florian Rist, M. Neumüller, Stefan Maierhofer, Werner Purgathofer Computer-Aided Design of Tactile Models – Taxonomy and Case-Studies In Computers Helping People with Special Needs, pages 497-504, 2012 [Paper]	Article in a Book
2011
	Martin Knecht, Christoph Traxler , Werner Purgathofer , Michael Wimmer Adaptive Camera-Based Color Mapping For Mixed-Reality Applications In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2011), pages 165-168. October 2011. [Preprint] [Video]	Conference Paper
	H. Gan, Kresimir Matkovic , Andreas Ammer, Werner Purgathofer , W. Bennett, M. Terblanche Interactive Visual Analysis of a large ICU database - a novel approach to data analysis Poster shown at 31st International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (22. March 2011-25. March 2011) [Paper]	Poster
	Daniel Scherzer, Michael Wimmer , Werner Purgathofer A Survey of Real-Time Hard Shadow Mapping Methods Computer Graphics Forum, 30(1):169-186, February 2011. [pdf]	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Stephan Mantler, Gerd Hesina, Michael Greiner, Werner Purgathofer GEARViewer: A State of the Art Real-Time Geospatial Visualization Framework In Proceedings of CORP 2011, pages 345-354. 2011.	Conference Paper
	Andreas Reichinger, Stefan Maierhofer, Werner Purgathofer High-Quality Tactile Paintings In Eurographics 2011 - Areas Papers, pages 1-8. 2011.	Conference Paper
2010
	Przemyslaw Musialski , Christian Luksch, Michael Schwärzler, Matthias Buchetics, Stefan Maierhofer, Werner Purgathofer Interactive Multi-View Façade Image Editing In Vision, Modeling and Visualization Workshop 2010. November 2010. [draft]	Conference Paper
	Martin Knecht, Christoph Traxler , Oliver Mattausch, Werner Purgathofer , Michael Wimmer Differential Instant Radiosity for Mixed Reality In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2010), pages 99-107. October 2010. [paper]	Conference Paper
	Kresimir Matkovic , Andreas Ammer, Denis Gracanin, Werner Purgathofer , Alan Lez Event Line View: Interactive Visual Analysis of Irregular Time-dependent Data In Smart Graphics 2010. June 2010. [Paper]	Conference Paper
	Martin Ilčík, Stefan Fiedler, Werner Purgathofer , Michael Wimmer Procedural Skeletons: Kinematic Extensions to CGA-Shape Grammars In Proceedings of the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics 2010, pages 177-184. May 2010. [draft] [presentation-odp] [presentation-pdf]	Conference Paper
	Przemyslaw Musialski , Meinrad Recheis, Stefan Maierhofer, Peter Wonka , Werner Purgathofer Tiling of Ortho-Rectified Façade Images In Proceedings of 26th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG 2010). May 2010. [draft]	Conference Paper
	Irene Reisner-Kollmann, Anton Fuhrmann, Werner Purgathofer Interactive reconstruction of industrial sites using parametric models In Proceedings of 26th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG 2010), pages 119-126. May 2010.	Conference Paper
	Martin Brunnhuber, H. Schrom-Feiertag, Gerd Hesina, D. Bauer, Werner Purgathofer Simulation and Visualization of the Behavior of Handicapped People in Virtually Reconstructed Public Buildings In CORP 2010. 2010. [Paper]	Conference Paper
	Werner Purgathofer , Robert F. Tobler Current Trends in Computer Graphics Buletinul Institutului Politehnic din Iaşi, (2):9-24, 2010. []	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Werner Purgathofer Some Trends in Computer Graphics, 2010, Sinaia, Romania	Invited Talk
	Werner Purgathofer Visual Computing, 2010, Wien, Austria	Invited Talk