This year the retreat of the SFB Graduate School had to take place as a video conference because of the pandemic restrictions of the COVID crisis.
PhD Retreat 2020 Goes Virtual

This year the retreat of the SFB Graduate School had to take place as a video conference because of the pandemic restrictions of the COVID crisis.
How to connect the two fields of aesthetics and technical quality? The ATQAM workshop at the ACM Multimedia Conference 2020 brought together researchers of both fields.
Image data`s nature to be relatively large makes a good performance crucial in the field of visual computing. Valentin Bruder on assessing the performance of different algorithms, to predict requirements.
Visualizations enable us to interact with the visual representation of data and to identify complex patterns. Leonel Merino about a new way of interacting with Situated Visualizations and the role of a toolkit called AVAR.
The first Workshop on Eye Tracking for Quality of Experience in Multimedia (ET-MM) took place online via Zoom on June 2nd, 2020.
I am a PhD student in the Life Science Informatics Group of Prof. Dr. Falk Schreiber at the University of Konstanz and visited the Immersive Analytics Lab at Monash University (Melbourne, Vic, Australia).
Xin Zhao from the visual computing group at Cardiff University spent three months as visiting researcher with SFB-TRR 161 project A05 at the University of Konstanz.
Jeffrey Heer visited the SFB-TRR 161 at VISUS. Katrin Angerbauer and Cristina Morariu organized his stay. This is the report on how the visit went.
Malte Eggers, Simon Kloos, Nathanael Schweizer und Barbara Zimmermann berichten über ihre Zeit als BOGY-Praktikanten im SFB-TRR 161.
During my research stay, I joined the Visualization Design Lab (VDL) at the University of Utah, which is led by Prof. Miriah Meyer and Prof. Alexander Lex. It is embedded in the larger Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI).