Gerd Marmitt

[Educational Background] [Short CV] [Current Research Activities] [Publications] [Contact]

Educational Background

1997	Datenverarbeitungskaufmann
2003	Diplom-Informatiker (FH)
2003	Master of Science in Computer Science Clemson University (USA)

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Short CV

1987 - 1993
Secondary School (Realschule), Hermeskeil

1993 - 1995
Higher Trade School (Höhere Berufsfachschule für Wirtschaft), Wadern

1995 - 1997
Trainee at the DSD Dillinger Stahlbau GmbH, Saarlouis combined with Vocational School (Berufsschule), Saarbruecken,
received special honor for statewide best degree as Datenverarbeitungskaufmann

1997 - 1998
Computer Help Desk Manager at the St. Elisabeth hospital in Wadern resp. St. Josef Losheim am See

1998 - 2003
Study of Applied Computer Science (Angewandte Informatik) at the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) Trier

2001 - 2002
Fulbright scholarship (Graduate Student) at the Clemson University, Computer Science Department, South Carolina

2003 - 2006
DFG scholarship (PhD student) at Saarland University, Computer Graphics Lab, Saarland

2006 DFG research project SaarCor (Prototype FPGA Ray-Tracing Board)

2007 - now Fraunhofer ITWM, Competence Center High Performance Computing and Visualization

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Current Research Activities

Scientific Visualization, especially Volume Rendering
Real-Time Ray Tracing

Please visit my project web page for more details on Volume Rendering using ray tracing.

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Publications

Gerd Marmitt, Heiko Friedrich, and Philipp Slusallek, Efficient CPU-based Volume Ray Tracing, Computer Graphics Forum (to appear)
Heiko Friedrich, Johannes Günther, Gerd Marmitt, and Philipp Slusallek, Interactive Iso-Surface Ray Tracing of Massive Volumetric Data, 7th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, Lugano, Switzerland, May 20-21, 2007
Gerd Marmitt, Heiko Friedrich, and Philipp Slusallek, Interactive Volume Rendering with Ray Tracing, State-of-the-Art Report (STAR) at Eurographics 2006, Vienna, Austria, November 04-08, 2006
Sven Woop, Gerd Marmitt, and Philipp Slusallek, B-KD Trees for Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes (Best Paper Award), SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware, Vienna, Austria, November 03-04, 2006
Gerd Marmitt, Heiko Friedrich and Philipp Slusallek, Fast Ray Traversal of Tetrahedral and Hexahedral Meshes for Direct Volume Rendering, Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVIS) 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, May 8-10, 2006
Gerd Marmitt and Philipp Slusallek, Fast Ray Traversal of Tetrahedral and Hexahedral Meshes for Direct Volume Rendering, Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVIS) 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, May 8-10, 2006
Ingo Wald, Heiko Friedrich, Gerd Marmitt, Philipp Slusallek, and Hans-Peter Seidel, Faster Isosurface Ray Tracing using Implicit KD-Trees, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 11 (5), 2005
Gerd Marmitt, Heiko Friedrich, and Philipp Slusallek, Recent Advancements in Ray-Tracing based Volume Rendering Techniques, Vision, Modelling and Visualization (VMV) 2005 Proceedings, Erlangen, Germany, November 16-18, 2005
Gerd Marmitt, Andreas Kleer, Ingo Wald, Heiko Friedirch, and Philipp Slusallek, Fast and Accurate Ray-Voxel Intersection Techniques for Iso-Surface Ray Tracing, Vision, Modelling and Visualization (VMV) 2004 Proceedings, Stanford, USA, November 16-18, 2004
Andreas Pomi, Gerd Marmitt, Ingo Wald and Philipp Slusallek, Streaming Video Textures for Mixed Reality Applications in Interactive Ray Tracing Environments in Vision, Modelling and Visualization (VMV) 2003 Proceedings, Munich, Germany, November 19 - 21, 2003
Andrew T. Duchowski, Gerd Marmitt, Rahul Desai, Anand Gramopadhye, and Joel Greenstein, Algorithm for Comparison of 3D Scanpaths in Virtual Reality, Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL, May 9 - 14, 2003.
Gerd Marmitt and Andrew T. Duchowski, Modeling Visual Attention in VR: Measuring the Accuracy of Predicted Scanpaths, in EuroGraphics 2002 Proceedings, Saarbruecken, Germany, September 2 - 6, 2002

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Contact

Gerd Marmitt
Universität des Saarlandes
Lehrstuhl f. Computergraphik
FR 6.2 - Informatik
Postfach 15 11 50
66041 Saarbrücken
Germany

Gebäude 36.1, Raum E14

Telefon: 0681-302-3837
FAX:     0681-302-3843

Email:    marmitt@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de
WWW:    http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~marmitt

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last changed: 02/03/2005

1987 - 1993	Secondary School (Realschule), Hermeskeil
1993 - 1995	Higher Trade School (Höhere Berufsfachschule für Wirtschaft), Wadern
1995 - 1997	Trainee at the DSD Dillinger Stahlbau GmbH, Saarlouis combined with Vocational School (Berufsschule), Saarbruecken, received special honor for statewide best degree as Datenverarbeitungskaufmann
1997 - 1998	Computer Help Desk Manager at the St. Elisabeth hospital in Wadern resp. St. Josef Losheim am See
1998 - 2003	Study of Applied Computer Science (Angewandte Informatik) at the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) Trier
2001 - 2002	Fulbright scholarship (Graduate Student) at the Clemson University, Computer Science Department, South Carolina
2003 - 2006	DFG scholarship (PhD student) at Saarland University, Computer Graphics Lab, Saarland
2006	DFG research project SaarCor (Prototype FPGA Ray-Tracing Board)
2007 - now	Fraunhofer ITWM, Competence Center High Performance Computing and Visualization