Andreas Dietrich

dietrich@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de




Contact

Andreas Dietrich
Universität des Saarlandes
Lehrstuhl für Computergraphik
FR 6.2 - Informatik
Postfach 15 11 50
66041 Saarbrücken
Germany

Building E1.1, Room E16


Phone:  +49 681 302 3832
Fax:      +49 681 302 3843

EMail:  dietrich@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de
WWW:  http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~dietrich




Research Interests




Publications

Papers

Massive Model Rendering Techniques
Andreas Dietrich, Enrico Gobbetti, and Sung-Eui Yoon
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, pp. 20-34
Special Issue Nov/Dec 2007
[bib]

Exploring a Boeing 777: Ray Tracing Large-Scale CAD Data
Andreas Dietrich, Abe Stephens, and Ingo Wald
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, pp 36-46
Special Issue Nov/Dec 2007
[bib]

Adaptive Spatial Sample Caching
Andreas Dietrich and Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of the IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2007, pp. 141-147
Ulm, Germany, September 10-12, 2007
[bib] [pdf] [slides]

Terrain Guided Multi-Level Instancing of Highly Complex Plant Populations
Andreas Dietrich, Gerd Marmitt, and Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, pp. 169-176
Salt Lake City, USA, September 18-20, 2006
[bib] [pdf] [divx avi] [slides]

Applying Ray Tracing for Virtual Reality and Industrial Design
Ingo Wald, Andreas Dietrich, Carsten Benthin, Alexander Efremov, Tim Dahmen, Johannes Günther, Vlastimil Havran, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, pp. 177-185
Salt Lake City, USA, September 18-20, 2006
[bib] [pdf] [slides]

Exploring the Use of Ray Tracing for Future Games
Heiko Friedrich, Johannes Günther, Andreas Dietrich, Michael Scherbaum, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Symposium, 2006
Boston, USA, July 29-30, 2006
[bib] [pdf]

Realtime Ray Tracing for Advanced Visualization in the Aerospace Industry
Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, Holger Schmidt, Kristian Sons, and Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of the 5th Paderborner Workshop Augmented & Virtual Reality in der Produktentstehung
Paderborn, Germany, May 31 - June 1, 2006
[bib] [pdf]

Large-Scale CAD Model Visualization on a Scalable Shared-Memory Architecture
Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV) 2005, pp. 303-310
Erlangen, Germany, November 16-18, 2005
[bib] [pdf] [poster (pdf)]

Realistic and Interactive Visualization of High-Density Plant Ecosystems
Andreas Dietrich, Carsten Colditz, Oliver Deussen, and Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena 2005, pp. 73-81
Dublin, Ireland, August 30, 2005
[bib] [pdf] [divx avi] [slides]

An Interactive Out-of-Core Rendering Framework for Visualizing Massively Complex Models
Ingo Wald, Andreas Dietrich, and Philipp Slusallek
Rendering Techniques 2004, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, pp. 81-92
Norrköping, Sweden, June 21-23, 2004
[bib] [pdf] [ppt] [divx avi]

VRML Scene Graphs on an Interactive Ray Tracing Engine
Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, Markus Wagner and Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of IEEE VR 2004, pp. 109-116
Chicago, USA, March 27-31, 2004
[abstract] [bib] [pdf] [ppt]

Interactive Distributed Ray Tracing on Commodity PC Clusters -- State of the Art and Practical Applications
Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, Andreas Dietrich and Philipp Slusallek
Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2790, 2003, pp. 499-508, (Proceedings of EuroPar 2003)
[bib] [pdf] [slides (ppt)]

The OpenRT Application Programming Interface
- Towards A Common API for Interactive Ray Tracing -
Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald and Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of the 2003 OpenSG Symposium, pp. 23-31
Darmstadt, Germany, April 1-2, 2003
[abstract] [bib] [pdf] [ppt]

Sketches

Interactive Visualization of Exceptionally Complex Industrial CAD Datasets
Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, Sketches and Applications
Los Angeles, USA, August 8-12, 2004
[bib] [pdf] [ppt] [video 1 (divx avi)] [video 2 (divx avi)]

Technical Reports

World-Space Sample Caching for Efficient Ray Tracing of Highly Complex Scenes
Andreas Dietrich, Jörg Schmittler, and Philipp Slusallek
Technical Report 2006-01, May
[abstract] [bib] [pdf]

A Ray Tracing based Virtual Reality Framework for Industrial Design
Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, Alexander Efremov, Tim Dahmen, Johannes Günther, Andreas Dietrich, Vlastimil Havran, Hans-Peter Seidel and Philipp Slusallek
Technical Report 2005-02, December
[abstract] [bib] [pdf]

Cover Images

Trillion Triangle Terrain
Andreas Dietrich, Gerd Marmitt, and Philipp Slusallek
Cover Image, Computer Graphics Forum 1(26), 2007, pp. 129-130,
(Winner CGF cover image contest 2007)
[bib] [image (4000x3200 pixel png)]

Interaktive Darstellung hoch detaillierter Landschaftsszenen
Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
Cover Image, GI Informatik Spektrum 5(27), pp. 480
October, 2004
[bib] [pdf] [image (4000x4588 pixel png)]
 
Interaktive Visualisierung eines hoch komplexen Boeing 777 Modells
Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
Cover Image, GI Informatik Spektrum 4(27), pp. 394
August, 2004
[bib] [pdf] [image (4000x4588 pixel png)]

Courses / Tutorials

Massive Model Visualization Techniques
David Kasik, Andreas Dietrich, Enrico Gobbetti, Fabio Marton, Dinesh Manocha, Philipp Slusallek, Abe Stephens, Sung-Eui Yoon
Course presentation, SIGGRAPH 2008
Los Angeles, USA, 2008
[web site] [Dietrich (pdf)] [Slusallek (pdf)]

State of the Art in Massive Model Visualization
David Kasik, Beat Brüderlin, Wagner Corrêa, Andreas Dietrich, Enrico Gobbetti, Dinesh Manocha, Fabio Marton, Iñigo Quilez, Philipp Slusallek, Abe Stephens, Sung-Eui Yoon
Course presentation, SIGGRAPH 2007
San Diego, USA, 2007
[web site] [Dietrich (pdf)] [Slusallek (pdf)]

Real Time Interactive Massive Model Visualization
David Kasik, Dinesh Manocha, Sung-Eui Yoon, Abe Stephens, Beat Brüderlin, Philipp Slusallek, Andreas Dietrich, Enrico Gobbetti, Fabio Marton, Wagner Corrêa, Iñigo Quilez
Tutorial presentation, Eurographics 2006
Vienna, Austria, 2006
[web site] [Dietrich (pdf)] [Slusallek (pdf)]

Afrigraph 2004 Course on "State of the Art in Massive Model Visualization"
Ingo Wald, Andreas Dietrich, and Philipp Slusallek
Course presentation on the "AFRIGRAPH 2004", Third International Conference on Computer Graphics
Cape Town (Stellenbosch), South Africa, 2004
[Introduction (ppt)] [Part I (ppt)] [Part II (ppt)]