Person profile

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.

Eduard Gröller

Phone +43 1 58801 18682

E-Maileduard.groeller@tuwien.ac.at

Assigned

E193-02

Business Card

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8569-4149

Research area

Name	Management/Member
Forschungsbereich Computer Graphics	Management

Profile

Research profile (German):

1) Visual Computing 2) Computergraphik 3) Wissenschaftliche Visualisierung 4) Informationsvisualisierung 5) Volumsvisualisierung / Medizinische Visualisierung 6) Visuelle Analyse 7) Visualisierung von Unsicherheiten

Research profile (English):

1) Visual Computing 2) Computer Graphics 3) Scientific Visualization 4) Information Visualization 5) Volume Visualization (Interactive Medical Visualization) 6) Visual Analytics 7) Uncertainty Visualization

Link to CV:

http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/staff/EduardGroeller.html

Publications:

Publications

CV

Name
CV-ShortEG_2015-10-12.pdf

Keywords

Keyword (German)	Keyword (English)
Visualisierung	Visualisation
Visualisierung von Unsicherheiten	Uncertainty visualization
Visualisierung dynamischer Systeme	Visualization of Dynamical Systems
Visual Analytics	Visual Analytics
Informationsvisualisierung	Information Visualization
Computergraphik	Computer Graphics
Medizinische Visualisierung	Medical Visualization
Dynamische Systeme	Dynamic Systems
Rendering	Rendering
Visual Computing	Visual Computing
Wissenschaftliche Visualisierung	Scientific Visualization

Research Focal Areas

Research focus	Research field	Keywords	Percentage
Materials and Matter	Materials Characterization	Analytical methods (trace analysis, nuclear techniques, non-destructive testing), Scattering techniques, Tomography in 2D and 3D, New methods and instruments for analysis, Characterization at atomic resolution	10
Computational Science and Engineering	Computer Science Foundations	Parallel Computing, Analysis of Large Datasets, High Energy Physics, Geoinformatics, Programming Models for CSE, Algorithms, Complexity and Optimization, Advanced Simulation Models for CSE	10
Information and Communication Technology	Media Informatics and Visual Computing	Computergraphik, Computer Vision, Visualisierung/Interaktive Visuelle Analyse, Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality, Content Based Retrieval, Human-Computer-Interaction, Socially Embedded Technologies, Cultural Heritage und Edutainment, Multimedia Networks	80

Faculty focus

Faculty focus	Percentage
Visual Computing andHuman-Centered Technology	100

Area of expertise according to Statistik Austria

Code	Area of expertise (German)	Area of expertise (English)
1108	Informatik	Informatics
1124	Digitale Bildverarbeitung und Graphik	Digital image processing and graphics

Reference Projects

Title	Funding program	Function	From	Until
National, WWTF - Wiener Wissenschafts- und Technologiefonds
SCALE-VS: Research on the Scalability and Confluence of Scientific Visualization andInteractive Segmentation (together with Markus Hadwiger, VRVis (main applicant))	Thematische Calls	Principal Investigator	01.01.2009	31.12.2012
Scenario Pool: Visual Analytics for Action Planning in the Presence of Uncertainty(together with Jürgen Waser, VRVis (principal investigator)), WWTF project, no. ICT12-009	Thematische Calls	Principal Investigator	01.07.2012	31.12.2015

International award

Awarding Organization	Country	Program	Function	Name	From	Website
Eurographics	Schweiz	Eurographics 2015 Outstanding Technical Contributions Award	Eurographics 2015 Outstanding Technical Contributions Award	Eurographics 2015 Outstanding Technical Contributions Award	01.01.2015	https://www.eg.org/wp/eurograp...
Eurographics	Schweiz	Fellow of the Eurographics Association	Fellow of the Eurographics Association	Fellow of the Eurographics Association	01.01.2009	https://www.eg.org/wp/fellows/
IEEE VGTC	Vereinigte St. v. Amerika	IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award	IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award	IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award	22.10.2019	https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/a...

National award

Awarding Organization	Program	Function	Name	From	Until	Website	Project ID
Bundesministerien	andere		Würdigungspreis des Bundesministers für Wissenschaft und Forschung	01.01.1993

Membership in committee

Committee	Description	Location	Function	From-To	Comment
wiss. Beirat/Kuratorium/Institut	Executive Committee of IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics (VGTC)	Vereinigte St. v. Amerika	Member	01/2004 -	Member at large
wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft	Executive Committee of the Eurographics association	Schweiz	Chairman	01/2007 - 12/2012	Mitglied
wiss. Beirat/Kuratorium/Institut	Steering Committee of the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization	Schweiz	Chairman	01/2002 - 12/2016	Mitglied 2002-2010, Vorsitz 2011-2016
	VRVis Scientific Advisory Committee	Österreich		01/2000 - 01/2007
	VRVis Scientific Review Committee	Österreich		01/2008 - 01/2009

Journal participation

Title	Classification	Referenced	Function	From-To	Comment
Computer Graphics Forum	SCI (Science Citation Index)	Yes	Editor	01/2008 - 12/2011
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics	unklassifiziert	Yes	Editorial board	04/2003 - 03/2007	http://www.computer.org/tvcg/
Journal Computer&Graphics	unklassifiziert	Yes	Editorial board	01/1999 - 12/2007	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=JournalURL&_cdi=5618&_auth=y&_acct=C000007978&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=103677&md5=5b1152b738d990fb5c83ae9964b575c9

R&D Accomplishments

Description	From	Until
Andere Kategorien
Co-chair of Application-Papers for IEEE Visualization 2004	04/2004	10/2004
Eurographics 2006 paper co-chair	01/2006	12/2006
IEEE Visualization 2005 paper co-chair	01/2005	12/2005
IEEE Visualization 2006 paper co-chair	01/2006	12/2006
Scientific Visualization: Challenges for the Future, Dagstuhl Seminar 05231, 2005, co-organizer	01/2005	12/2005
Scientific Visualization: Dagstuhl Seminar 09251, 2009, co-organizer	01/2009	12/2009
Technische Universität Iasi: Doctor Honoris Causa - Purgathofer (Kommissionsmitglied)	01/2010	10/2010
VisSym¿99, the Joint EUROGRAPHICS ¿ IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, symposium and program co-chair	01/1999	12/1999
Volume Graphics 2005 program co-chair	01/2005	12/2005

Events / Conferences

Category	Collaboration	Event name	From	Until	Function/Comments
Fachtagung/Veranstaltung	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Abstraction Techniques for Illustrative Visualization	11/2005		Invited Talk at VMV 2005
Fachtagung/Veranstaltung	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Comprehensive Visualization of Cardiac MRI Data	09/2009		Keynote address at AMI-ARCS 2009, 5th Workshop on Augmented Environments for Medical Imaging including augmented Reality in Computer-Aided Surgery
Fachtagung/Veranstaltung	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Comparative and Quantitative Visualization	09/2014		Keynote talk at INFORMATIK 2014 Workshop Big Data Visual Computing - Quantitative Perspectives for Visual Computing
Fachtagung/Veranstaltung	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Focus+Context in Illustrative Visualization	06/2007		Keynote talk at TPCG07
Fachtagung/Veranstaltung	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Understanding Data through Visual Exploration	05/2016		Keynote talk at Visionday 2016, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU Compute)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	Organisator_in	IEEE Visualization 2004			Application papers co-chair (together with K. Müller, USA; K.-L. Ma, USA)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	The Haunted Swamps of Heuristics	06/2011		Capstone talk at EuroVis 2011
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	Organisator_in	Scientific Visualization: Challenges for the Future	01/2005		Co-organizer (together with Th. Ertl, Ge rmany; K. Joy, USA; G. Nielson, USA)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	Organisator_in	Eurographics Conference on Visualization 2012	01/2012		Conference chair
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	Sonstiges		05/2010	06/2012	Conference chair of EuroVis2012 (http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/eurovis2012/)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	Sonstiges		10/2008	11/2011	Conference co-chair of Eurographics 2011 (http://eg2011.bangor.ac.uk/index.html)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Scientific Visualization in Medicine	04/2003		Invited Talk at Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics (CESCG 2003)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Insight into Data Through Visualization	09/2001		Invited talk at Graph Drawing
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Visual Computing and Analysis of Complex Systems	12/2016		Invited talk at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Symposium on Visualization
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Comparative Visualization	03/2014		Keynote talk at IEEE Pacific Visualization 2014
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Visualization with Knowledge and Style	02/2009		Keynote talk at International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Trends in Visual Computing	08/2013		Keynote talk at Sibgrapi 2013
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Visual Data Exploration	10/2016		Keynote talk at the 21st International Symposium on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV 2016)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Visualization for Non-Destructive Testing	03/2014		NII Shonan Meeting Seminar 046 (Computer Visualization - Concepts and Challenges)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	Organisator_in	IEEE Visualization 2006			Paper co-chair (t ogether with C. Silva, USA; A. Pang, USA)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	Organisator_in	IEEE Visualization 2005			Paper co-chair (t ogether with H. Rushmeier, USA; C. Silva, USA)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	Organisator_in	Eurographics 2006	01/2006		Paper co-chair (toget her with L. Szirmay-Kalos, Hungary)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	Organisator_in	Volume Graphics 2005			Program co-chair (together with I. Fujishiro, Japan)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Feature Extraction in Medical Visualization	06/2003		Scientific Visualization: Extracting Information and Knowledge from Scientific Data Sets
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Comparative and Quantitative Visualization in Material Sciences	06/2014		Seminar 14231, Scientific Visualization
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	Organisator_in	VisSym-99	01/1999		Smposium on Visualization, symposium and program co-c hair (together with W. Ribarsky, USA)
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Visualisation using Knowledge Assisted Sparse Interaction,	02/2013		VIGOR++ Workshop 2013 - Advances in VPH Technologies and the VIGOR++ Tools
Wissenschaftliche Konferenz/Symposium	eingeladene_r Sprecher_in	Comprehensive Visualization of Cardiac MRI Data	08/2011		Workshop Geometry for Anatomy

Patents

Number	Title	Inventors	Date of First Patent Application	Publishing Links
US 8643675 B2	Method and a System for Interactive Probing and Annotating Medical Images Using Profile Flags	Mlejnek, M., Gröller, E., Vilanova, A.	10/2006	http://patentscope.wipo.int/se...
US 8471846 B2	Method and apparatus for determining medical image position	Peter Kohlmann, Lukas Mroz, Rainer Wegenkittl, Stefan Bruckner, Eduard Groeller, Armin Kanitsar	11/2009	http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...
US 20120038649 A1	Method and apparatus for multimodal visualization of volume data sets	Kanitsar Armin, Haidacher Martin, Bruckner Stefan, Groeller Eduard	07/2008	http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...
EP 2 048 621	Method and apparatus for volume rendering of medical data sets	Kanitsar, A., Mroz, L., Wegenkittl, R., Kohl mann, P., Bruckner, S., Gröller, E.	10/2007	http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacg...
US 9,390,546 B2	Methods and systems for removing occlusions in 3d ultrasound images	Buckton, D., Schroecker, G., Varchola, A., Bruckner, S., Gröller, E., Novotny, J.	07/2016	https://www.google.com/patents...