Michael Gervautz

Michael Gervautz is no longer employed here.

New contact: Qualcomm.

Some of this information might be out of date.

Function

I am currently excused from my employment, to set up the spin off company Imagination. This means, I am doing no lectures any more. Nevertheless in special cases I am conducting praktika, diploma thesises or PhDs.

Associate Professor and Dozent at the institute
currently on leave
CEO of Imagination Computer Services GesmbH

Courses

Computer Science Project 1
Computer Science Project 2 and Computer Graphics Project
Supervision of Diploma Theses and Dissertations

Research Work

As I am working currently full time for Imagination, I have reduced my research activities to only a few projects. Here ist the list of activities I have done so far.

Virtual Environments

Motion prediction and time-constant rendering
User interface design for virtual environments
Levels of detail
Simulation and animation in an distributed environment
Design of specialized protocolls for distributed virtual environments
System design of distributed virtual environments
Augmented reality
Studierstube and PIP
Person Tracking

Computer animation

Integrating a scripting language into an interactive animation system
Object-oriented animation design
Dynamics for simulation of motion of kinematic chains
Collision detection
Levels of detail for computer animation

Natural Phenomenons

Cyclic CSG graphs - a geometric representation for iterative structures
Ray tracing of natural phenomenons with cyclic CSG graphs

Realistic image rendering

Speed-Improvements for Ray tracing
Radiosity for CSG
Consistent schemes for adressing surfaces when ray tracing transparent CSG-objects
Octree-Quantization: A simple Method for color quantization
SOL - An object description language for CSG-objects

Multimedia

Multimedia Teachware for a Computer Animation Course

For more information see the research pages of the institute.

Interests

Computer Graphics
Virtual Reality
Computer Animation
Realistic Image Rendering
Multimedia

Hobbies

My family, juggling, squash, playing guitar

Research Keywords

Computeranimation
Computer Graphics
Multimedia
Realistisches Rendering
Virtual Reality

Publications

91 Publications found:

Image	Bib Reference	Publication Type
2004
	Thomas Binder, Georgio De Michelis, Michael Gervautz, Giulio Iacucci, Kresimir Matkovic, Thomas Psik, Ina Wagner Supporting Configurability in a Tangibly Augmented Environment for Design Students Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 8(5):310-325, July 2004. [pdf]	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Georg Zotti, Michael Gervautz, Heimo Kramer, Wolfgang Neubauer Stone-Age Monumental Circular Ditch Systems Poster shown at Spring Conference on Computer Graphics 2004 (22. April 2004-24. April 2004)	Poster
2003
	J Cosmas, T Itegaki, D Green, N Joseph, L Van Gool, A Zalesny, D Vanrintel, F Leberl, K Schindler, Konrad Karner, Michael Gervautz, S. Hynst, M Waelkens, K Pollefeys, T Vereenooghe, R Sablatnig, M Kampel, P Axell Providing Multimedia Tools for Recording, Reconstruction, Visualization and Database Storage/ Access of Archaeological Excavations In 4th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage. 2003.	Conference Paper
2002
	Kresimir Matkovic, Zsolt Szalavári, Christoph Traxler , Michael Gervautz Virtual Gutenberg`s Printing Press OEGAI-Journal, 21(1), 2002.	Journal Paper (without talk)
2001
	Werner Purgathofer , Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Gerd Hesina, Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz, L. Miguel Encarnação Augmented Reality: The Interface is Everywhere SIGGRAPH 2001 Course Notes #27, Los Angeles, USA, ACM Press, August 2001	Miscellaneous Publication
	J.-D. Gascuel, Werner Purgathofer , Christian Faisstnauer, Michael Gervautz Construction of an Open Geometry Server for Client Server Virtual Environments Proceedings of the IEEE VR 2001 conference, pp. 105-112, Yokohama, Japan, 2001	Miscellaneous Publication
2000
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Gerd Hesina, Zsolt Szalavári, L. Miguel Encarnação, Michael Gervautz, Werner Purgathofer The Studierstube Augmented Reality Project TR-186-2-00-22, December 2000 [paper]	Technical Report
1999
	A. Hildebrandt, Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Gervautz Virtual Environments '99 Springer Wien-New York, 1999.	Miscellaneous Publication
	Anton Fuhrmann, Gerd Hesina, Michael Gervautz, Francois Faure Occlusion in collaborative augmented environments Proceedings of the 5th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Virtual Environments (EGVE 1999), Vienna, June 1-2, 1999.	Miscellaneous Publication
	Anton Fuhrmann, Gerd Hesina, Michael Gervautz, Francois Faure Occlusion in collaborative augmented environments (extended version). Computers & Graphics 23 (1999) pp.809-819, Oxford, 1999.	Miscellaneous Publication
	A. Staller, S. Trappl, Thomas Psik, Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz, Stephan Mantler, Paolo Petta Towards Engaging Full-Body Interaction Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International'99), August 22-27, Munich, Germany, 1999	Miscellaneous Publication
1998
	Anton Fuhrmann, Gerd Hesina, Francois Faure, Michael Gervautz Occlusion in Collaborative Augmented Environments TR-186-2-98-29, December 1998 [paper]	Technical Report
	Anton Fuhrmann, Michael Gervautz, Helwig Löffelmann , Dieter Schmalstieg Collaborative Visualization in Augmented Reality TR-186-2-98-01, January 1998 [paper]	Technical Report
	Zsolt Szalavári, Erik Eckstein, Michael Gervautz Collaborative Gaming in Augmented Reality TR-186-2-98-10, January 1998 [paper]	Technical Report
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz Augmented Reality Enabled Collaborative Work in "Studierstube" Abstract, EURO-VR'97 conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Nov. 10-11, 1998.	Miscellaneous Publication
	Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz, Erik Eckstein Collaborative Gaming in Augmented Reality, Proceedings of VRST'98, pp.195-204, November 2-5, 1998	Miscellaneous Publication
	Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz Interaktion mit virtuellen Informationen in realen Umgebungen - das "Personal Interaction Panel" Arbeiten und begreifen: Neue Mensch-Maschine - Schnittstellen, lit-Verlag, pp. 147-158, Germany, 1998.	Miscellaneous Publication
	Peter Wonka , Michael Gervautz Raytracing of nonlinear fractals WSCG Plzen 1998 Proceedings, pp. 424-431, 1998.	Miscellaneous Publication
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz Studierstube - An Environment for Collaboration in Augmented Reality Virtual Reality: Research, Development & Applications, (3): pp. 37-48, 1998.	Miscellaneous Publication
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz Studierstube - An Environment for Collaboration in Augmented Reality Virtual Reality - Systems, Development and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 37-49, 1998.	Miscellaneous Publication
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Michael Gervautz Strolling through Cyberspace with Your Hands in Your Pockets: Head Directed Navigation in Virtual Environments Virtual Environments '98 (Proceedings of the 4th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Virtual Environments), pp. 216-227, Stuttgart, Germany, June 16-18, Springer-Verlag, 1998.	Miscellaneous Publication
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Michael Gervautz, Helwig Löffelmann Collaborative Visualization in Augmented Reality IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 54-59, IEEE Computer Society, 1998.	Miscellaneous Publication
1997
	Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz, Anton Fuhrmann, Dieter Schmalstieg Augmented Reality Enabled Collaborative Work in 'Studierstube' TR-186-2-97-18, September 1997 [paper]	Technical Report
	Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz, Anton Fuhrmann, Dieter Schmalstieg Augmented Reality Enabled Collaborative Work in 'Studierstube' TR-186-2-97-18, September 1997 [paper]	Technical Report
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Gervautz recursIV: Interactive Rendering of Natural Phenomena TR-186-2-97-04, March 1997 [paper]	Technical Report
	Zsolt Szalavári, Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Michael Gervautz 'Studierstube' An Environment for Collaboration in Augmented Reality TR-186-2-97-01, January 1997 [paper]	Technical Report
	Christoph Traxler , Michael Gervautz Efficient Ray Tracing of Complex Natural Scenes In Proceedings of Fractal 97. 1997. [paper]	Conference Paper
1996
	Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz The Personal Interaction Panel - a Two-Handed Interface for Augmented Reality TR-186-2-96-20, September 1996 [paper]	Technical Report
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Zsolt Szalavári, Michael Gervautz 'Studierstube' - An Environment for Collaboration in Augmented Reality TR-186-2-96-17, April 1996 [paper]	Technical Report
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Christoph Traxler , Michael Gervautz Interactive Rendering of Natural Phenomena with Directed Cyclic Graphs TR-186-2-96-16, April 1996 [paper]	Technical Report
	Michael Gervautz, Dieter Schmalstieg, Zsolt Szalavári, Konrad Karner, Franz Madritsch, Axel Pinz Studierstube - A Multi-User Augmented Reality Environment for Visualization and Education TR-186-2-96-10, March 1996 [paper]	Technical Report
	Tomasz Mazuryk, Michael Gervautz Virtual Reality History, Applications, Technology and Future TR-186-2-96-06, February 1996 [paper]	Technical Report
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Gervautz Demand-Driven Geometry Transmission for Distributed Virtual Environments TR-186-2-96-01, January 1996 [paper]	Technical Report
	Christoph Traxler , Michael Gervautz Using Genetic Algorithms to Improve the Visual Quality of Fractal Plants Generated with CSG-PL-Systems TR-186-2-96-04, January 1996 [paper]	Technical Report
	Christoph Traxler , Michael Gervautz Calculation of Tight Bounding Volumes for Cyclic CSG-Graphs TR-186-2-96-03, January 1996 [paper]	Technical Report
1995
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Gervautz, Peter Stieglecker Optimizing Communication in Distributed Virtual Environments by Specialized Protocols TR-186-2-95-14, November 1995 [paper]	Technical Report
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Gervautz Implementing Gibsonian Virtual Environments TR-186-2-95-10, October 1995 [paper]	Technical Report
	Michael Gervautz, Dieter Schmalstieg Computer Animation and Visualization - Current Status and Trends In Proceedings of EUROSIM. September 1995.	Conference Paper
	Tomasz Mazuryk, Michael Gervautz Two-Step Prediction and Image Deflection for Exact Head-Tracking in Virtual Environments In Proceedings of Eurographics, pages 29-41. August 1995.	Conference Paper
	Michael Zeiller, Werner Purgathofer , Michael Gervautz Efficient Collision Detection for General CSG Objects In Computer Animation' 95. August 1995.	Conference Paper
	Tomasz Mazuryk, Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Gervautz Zoom Rendering: Accelerating 3-D Rendering Performance With 2-D Operations TR-186-2-95-09, July 1995 [paper]	Technical Report
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Gervautz Towards a virtual environment for interactive world building TR-186-2-95-08, June 1995 [paper]	Technical Report
	Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Gervautz On System Architectures for Virtual Environments In Proceedings of the 11th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics. May 1995.	Conference Paper
	Christoph Traxler , Michael Gervautz Calculation of tight bounding volumes for cyclic CSG-graphs In Proceedings of 11th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics. May 1995.	Conference Paper
	Michael Gervautz, Christoph Traxler Representation and Realistic Rendering of Natural Phenomena with Cyclic CSG-Graphs Visual Computer, 11, 1995.	Journal Paper (without talk)
1994
	Michael Gervautz, Christoph Traxler Representation and Realistic Rendering of Natural Phenomena with Cyclic CSG-graphs TR-186-2-94-19, December 1994 [paper]	Technical Report
	Michael Gervautz, Werner Petricek Multimedia und Interaktion TR-186-2-94-7, October 1994 [paper]	Technical Report
	Werner Purgathofer , Martin Feda, Michael Gervautz, Robert Devide, Werner Petricek, Eduard Gröller , Helwig Löffelmann , Michael Zeiller, A. Vesel A Collection of Papers of the Institute of Computer Graphics TR-186-2-94-1, August 1994	Technical Report
	Michael Gervautz, Olga Beltcheva An Approach for Object-Oriented Animation Design TR-186-2-94-2, August 1994 [paper]	Technical Report
	Michael Gervautz, Olga Beltcheva An Approach for Object-Oriented Animation Design In Proceedings of Spring School of Computer Graphics. June 1994.	Conference Paper