Intel Visual Computing Institute

Intel Visual Computing Institute
Category:	research Institute
Carrier:	University of Saarland
Legal form of the carrier:	Public service institution
Seat of the wearer:	Saarbrücken
Facility location:	Saarland University campus
Type of research:	Basic research
Subjects:	Natural sciences
Areas of expertise:	Computer science
Management:	Thorsten Herfet , Philipp Slusallek , Oliver Grau
Employee:	25th
Homepage:	www.intel-vci.uni-saarland.de

The Intel Visual Computing Institute (VCI) was founded in 2009. It is a cooperation project between Intel , Saarland University , the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science , the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). The institute is located on the campus of Saarland University and is part of the Kaiserslautern-Saarbrücken Computer Science Cluster .

Research task

The institute deals with research in the field of visual computing , that is, acquisition, modeling, processing, transmission, rendering and mapping of visual and related data. Research Aspects:

• High performance and scalability
• Integration of multimodal data
• Analysis and processing of large amounts of data
• Efficient coding and transmission of time-dependent data under real-time conditions

Research fields

• Computer graphics
• Computer vision
• static and moving image processing
• CAD
• interactive simulation
• Geometry processing
• animation
• Human-computer interaction
• parallel programming languages , compilers and tools.

See also

• Kaiserslautern-Saarbrücken Computer Science Cluster

Web links

• Homepage Intel Visual Computing Institute

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Web presence of the Intel Visual Computing Institute , accessed on February 4, 2014