Open House 2022: Visual Computing for a sustainable future

More information about the VRVis Open House

VRVis invites the public to take a look at current research projects on June 30, 2022 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm.

The researchers of the Visual Analytics Group with laptop and VRVis banner.

The Visual Analytics Group researches and develops interactive systems for data analysis and decision support. The focus of the research group is on multi- and high-dimensional data, which in many cases is also time-dependent. The group's goal is to help users gain new insights and improve decision-making by enabling interactive dialogue with big structured data.

[Translate to en:] Die Biomedical Image Informatics-Forschungsgruppe versammelt Expertinnen und Expertin in biomedizinischer Visualisierung, Imaging und Künstlicher Intelligenz, um humanzentrierte Lösungen für Medizin, industrielle Fertigung, Life Sciences sowie weitere datenintensive Forschungsfelder zu entwickeln.

The researchers of the GeoSMAQ Group in front of the VRVis banner.

The Geospatial Visualization, Semantic Modeling and Acquisition Group focuses on methods for creating, visualizing, analyzing, and interacting with 3D geospatial data. Our use cases range from terrestrial surveying to digital planning and simulation to planetary science.

Four researchers and one female researcher in front of a poster on Interactive Simulations as a Decision Support Tool for Water Sensitive Urban Design (Visdom).

The research group Integrated Simulations combines simulation, visualization and analysis and develops tools to support decision making. The most important software developed so far is the flood simulation software Visdom.

The researchers of the Multiple Senses Group at VRVis in colorful clothes and with various VR and AR glasses in hand.

The Multiple Senses Group focuses on methods and technologies that involve more than the classical senses - seeing and hearing - in interaction with computers. With a focus on Extended Reality (XR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (VR).

Three researchers and a female researcher of the Interactive Visualizations Group at VRVis in front of two posters presented at scientific conferences.

The Interactive Visualization Group focuses on the interactive visual analysis of complex scientific data. By integrating simulation, visualization, and analysis into uniform workflows, experts from different fields are supported.

[Translate to en:] Am VRVis arbeiten rund 70 Forscherinnen und Forscher in sieben interdisziplinär vernetzten Forschungsgruppen an den Lösungen von morgen.

Multiple circles of VRVis success statistics: over 840 scientific publications, 70 international awards, and 29 patents.

The cross-sectional technology of visual computing offers an innovation toolbox to open the way into a sustainable future. A qualified translation of big data and complex challenges into interpretable images and low-threshold information that puts people at the center paves the way for a broad alliance of science, business, politics and the public for the "sustainabilization" of future solutions. Visual computing is the necessary bridging technology that connects computers with people and supports them on their way to a sustainable future.

Successful cutting-edge research does not happen behind closed doors, but in a continuous dialogue between science, industry and society - that is why we are opening our doors to the public on June 30, 2022 from 14.00-17.00. In low-threshold demos, the VRVis science team will present Austrian top-level research and domestic Sustainable Solutions directed along the UN's 17 SDGs. From hydrodynamic simulations that help to develop climate change adaptation strategies for extreme weather events or transform cities into resilient Sponge Cities, to data visualization that facilitates predictive maintenance for older hydropower plants, to Artificial Intelligence solutions that support modern radiology to work in a faster, more explainable and at the same time more human-centered way, or even XR solutions that offer collaborative-immersive applications for challenges that so far were strongly limited in space and time.

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