General Information
The 18th Visual Computing Winter Workshop Austria will take place from January 12th to 14th 2025 (Sunday to Tuesday) at Kaprun, Austria.
Workshop chairs: Dieter Fellner & Manuela Waldner
List of participants (please enter the password "wintergraph2025").
Call for Participation
This workshop is intended to bring together the research community from the Austrian visual computing research labs, to discuss the future research agenda in these fields, and to trigger cooperation. Due to a limited number of participants, participation is by invitation only, i.e. you need a personal invitation by one of the organizers to be able to register.
Workshop Location
Alpenhaus Kaprun
Schlossstraße 2
5710 Kaprun
Telefon +43 6547 7647
Telefax +43 (0) 6547 7647 503
E-Mail: willkommen@alpenhaus-kaprun.at
Workshop Program
| Sunday January 12th | |
| ~08:30 | departure (see travel information further below) |
| ~14:00 | arrival in Kaprun |
| 17:00 s.t.* | workshop (seminar room) |
| 19:30 | dinner |
| Monday January 13th | |
| 08:00 | breakfast |
| 09:00 - 16:00 | skiing & group discussions in lifts |
| 17:00 s.t.* | workshop (seminar room) |
| 19:30 | dinner |
| Tuesday January 14th | |
| 08:00 | breakfast |
| 09:00 - 15:00 | skiing & group discussions in lifts |
| ~16:30 | departure from Kaprun (see travel information further below) |
Presentation Schedule
| Sunday January 12th | ||
| 17:00 | Welcome & Introduction | Dieter Fellner & Manuela Waldner |
| 17:20 | TU Wien, Computer Vision Lab | Pedro Hermosilla Casajus |
| 17:27 | TU Wien, Computer Graphics Club | Gerald Kimmersdorfer |
| 17:34 | TU Wien, Computer Graphics, Rendering Group | Stefan Orhallinger |
| 17:41 | TU Wien, Computer Graphics, Visualization Group | Angeliki Grammatikaki |
| 17:48 | TU Wien, Virtual and Augmented Reality | Matteo Bosco |
| 17:55 | TU Wien, Visual Analytics | Michaela Tuscher |
| 18:02 | TU Wien, Algorithms and Complexity Group | Sara Di Bartolomeo |
| 18:09 | VRVis | Katja Bühler |
| 18:16 | ISTA, Bickl group | Manas Bhargava |
| 18:23 | break | |
| 18:45 | Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik Saarbrücken | Hans-Peter Seidel |
| 18:52 | Universität Konstanz | Oliver Deussen |
| 18:59 | Universität Bonn | Reinhard Klein |
| 19:06 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Tim Weyrich |
| 19:13 | Universität Bayreuth | Michael Guthe |
| 19:20 | Organizational announcements | Dieter Fellner & Manuela Waldner |
| Monday January 13th | ||
| 17:00 | Organizational announcements | Dieter Fellner & Manuela Waldner |
| 17:10 | Group picture | |
| 17:20 | TU Graz IVC, Team Schreck | Tobias Schreck |
| 17:27 | TU Graz IVC, Team Augsdörfer | Alexander Komar |
| 17:34 | TU Graz IVC, Team Preiner | Reinhold Preiner |
| 17:41 | TU Graz IVC, Team Steinberger | Michael Steiner & Lukas Radl |
| 17:48 | TU Graz IVC, Team Possegger | Johannes Spöcklberger |
| 17:55 | TU Graz IVC, Team Pock | Gianluca Guglielmo |
| 18:02 | Fraunhofer Austria Group | Christoph Schinko |
| 18:09 | break | |
| 18:30 | Fraunhofer Darmstadt | Dieter Fellner |
| 18:37 | Johannes Kepler University Linz | Claire Dorman |
| 18:44 | Universität Innsbruck | Marcel Ritter |
| 18:51 | FH St. Pölten VIS | Wolfgang Aigner |
| 18:58 | FH St. Pölten CV/ML | Djordje Slijepcevic |
| 19:05 | FH Hagenberg | Anna Maschek |
| 19:12 | FH Salzburg | Gerlinde Emsenhuber |
| 19:19 | VIS 2025 | Johanna Schmidt |
| 19:26 | Closing remarks | Dieter Fellner & Manuela Waldner |
Activities
The discussion groups are informally organized by volunteers assigned on site. The extended breaks will give participants the option for recreational activities in the nearby mountains.
Skiing: Kaprun / Maiskogel lifts, which are connected to Kitzsteinhorn (see panorama map)
Skiing tickets are not included in the workshop price.
In addition to skiing, skiing tours and skiing / snowboard courses are often organized by the participants. We will collect participants' special interests and connect people for further organization.
Other winter activities in the region: cross-country skiing, winter hiking, all-year alpine coaster etc. (see tourist board of Kaprun / Zell am See).
Offers by the hotel: pool, sauna, gym
Registration
To register, please contact your group leader or the person who invited you. Group leaders recently received the information about how many shared room (!) spots are reserved for their group. Registrations are processed locally on the basis of single- and shared-room contingents assigned to each group. Unused places are returned and distributed newly by the workshop chairs. All participants have to be members of the invited groups. No spouses etc.
The workshop fee covers the accommodation and is between 250 Euros for shared rooms and 400 Euros for single rooms. Transportation, parking, entry fees etc. are self-organized and not included in the workshop fee.
Travel Information
Traveling to / from Kaprun is self-organized. For people traveling from Vienna or St.Pölten, the TU Wien is suggesting a travel plan for a shared trip (see below). We can assume that the railway is operating again normally in January. Since most people have a Klimaticket now, there will be no group ticket option this year.
Our hotel can be reached by public transport (train to Zell am See + bus ride to Kaprun - see ÖBB Scotty and bus plan).
Parking fee for cars is 12€ per day.
The hotel is within walking distance to the Kaprun lifts.
Please plan your travel so that you arrive at the hotel at 4 p.m. latest. The workshop program starts at 5 p.m.!
Suggested Travel Plan from / to Vienna
Sunday 12.1.2025
RJX 662 / 262 at 08:28 from Wien Hauptbahnhof to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof (arrival: 10:53) or
WB 962 at 08:08 from Wien Westbahnhof to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof (arrival: 10:38)
REX3 at 11:08 from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Zell am See
Bus 660 at 12:53 or 13:23 from Zell am See to Kaprun
Arrival in Kaprun: between 13:00 and 14:00
Tuesday 14.1.2025
Bus 660 at 16:35 from Kaprun to Zell am See
REX3 at 17:15 from Zell am See to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
RJX 661 / 261 at 19:07 from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Wien Hauptbahnhof
Arrival in Vienna: 21:32
We will organize a luggage pick-up between Zell am See and Kaprun for the people arriving in Zell am See at the arrival times in Zell am See indicated above so that we do not have to carry our suitcases and skis in the bus.
