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Four D-INFK doctoral graduates have received ETH Medals for their outstanding dissertations. Congratulations, Marco Eilers, Timon Gehr, Yifan Wang and Gaspard Zoss!

At the Symposium on Geometry Processing, Professor Olga Sorkine-Hornung received a test-of-time award for a paper she wrote fifteen years ago. Congratulations!

For her excellent teaching, Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung, head of the Interactive Geometry Lab, receives the Golden Owl 2021. Congratulations!

D-INFK Professor Olga Sorkine-Hornung has been named an ACM Fellow for her contributions to digital geometry processing, computer animation, computer graphics and visual computing.

Professor Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Professor Torsten Hoefler have been honoured with an ERC Consolidator Grant for the outstanding work in their respective research field.

Michael Rabinovich and Dimitar K. Dimitrov, two doctoral students from the Department of Computer Science, have won the ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses.

Katja Wolff, a doctoral student at the Interactive Geometry Lab, has developed an algorithm that aligns textile patterns along seams.

Join doctoral student Oliver Glauser from the Interactive Geometry Lab in this video as he introduces a data glove which can capture accurate hand motions in real time.

On March 19, 2019, ETH Zurich presented the Spark Award 2019. The award recognizes the most promising invention that ETH transfer filed for a patent in 2018. Two of the nominated projects came from D-​INFK.

Christian Schüller from the Interactive Geometry Lab has developed a method of designing patterns to assemble 3D objects with only a flat piece of fabric and a zipper.

One of Prof. Sorkine-Hornung's main reseach areas is the interactive modelling of surfaces. She is also working on digital fabrication and 3D printing techniques in computer design.

Associate professor Olga Sorkine-​Hornung leads the Interactive Geometry Lab. Her research areas include shape representation and editing, digital geometry processing, fabrication, image and video manipulation, and computer animation.

Professor Olga Sorkine has won this year’s Rössler Prize for her work in the field of computer graphics. The prize comes with a research award of CHF 200,000.

Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung's research spans a great range from fundamental theoretical issues to very practical methods for computer graphic content creation.

Researchers at ETH Zurich and Disney Research Zurich have developed a new technique called Computational Thermoforming. It enables them to manufacture plastic replicas of digital 3D models, in which the shape and colour are reproduced in detail. This technique extends the range of digital fabrication methods and represents an efficient and cost-​effective alternative to colour 3D printing.

Manipulating 3-​dimensional animated characters on a 2D screen is challenging and requires years of training. ETH researchers now make animation artists’ life a little easier with a new input device they can assemble into a shape similar to the virtual character.

3D shapes are an inherent part of our culture. Almost everyone knows animated movies such as “Shrek”, “Toy Story” or “Despicable Me”. But who has ever created such an animated 3D figure? Only a very limited number of people have ever tried their luck at 3D geometric modeling. In her ERC Starting Grant project “Intelligent Shape Modeling”, Prof. Olga Sorkine intends to simplify the processes of 3D modeling, thus making it accessible to the general public.

The Department of Computer Science welcomes its new Assistant Professors, Prof. Olga Sorkine und Prof. Andreas Krause. They will start teaching at the department in the Spring Semester of 2011. (German)