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SFB-TRR 161

Quantitative Methods for Visual Computing

We are living in a data society in which data is generated at amazing speed; individuals, companies, organizations, and governments are on the brink of being drawn into a massive deluge of data. The great challenge is to extract the relevant information from vast amounts of data and communicate it effectively.

Typical scenarios include decision and policy making for urban and environmental planning or understanding relationships and dependencies in complex networks, e.g., social networks or networks from the field of bioinformatics. These scenarios are not only of interest to specialized experts; in fact, there is a trend toward including the broad public, which requires the information to be presented in a reliable, faithful, and easy-to-understand fashion.

Visual computing can play a key role in extracting and presenting the relevant information.

In visual computing research the aspect of quantification is often neglected. The SFB-TRR 161 seeks to close this gap.

The long-term goal is to strengthen the research field by establishing the paradigm of quantitative science in visual computing.

News

June 2025

June 23, 2025
ERC Advanced Grant for Albrecht Schmidt

Leader of SFB-TRR 161 Project C06 explores and develops AI systems that store and process human experiences.
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June 11, 2025
ETVIS Workshop at ETRA 2025

Successful workshop co-organized by SFB-TRR 161 members examines the intersection of eye tracking research with visualization.
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May

May 23, 2025
Konstanzia Fellowship for Anke Reinschlüssel

Fellowship program offers support on the last steps towards a professorship.
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SFB-TRR 161 Events

Oct 6th - 7th, 2025, full days

HdbL Herrsching

Internal Status Seminar of the SFB-TRR 161

 


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PhD students of the projects at the Universities of Stuttgart and Konstanz learn and do research together on their way to their doctoral degree in visual computing.



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The scientists of the SFB-TRR 161 as well as guest authors blog about their activities in computer graphics, visualization, computer vision, augmented reality, human-computer interaction, and psychology.


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