Markus Steinberger

Function: University Assistant
Email: steinberger(at)icg.tugraz.at
Phone: +43 316 873-5054
Office: Inffeldgasse 16c/II, Room No. ID 02028
Office-Hours: by appointment

Markus Steinberger received a M.Sc. in Computer Science (Telematics: Computer Graphics and Computational Intelligence) from Graz University of Technology in 2010 with highest distinction. He is currently a research assistant in the team of Prof. Schmalstieg at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at the Graz University of Technology.

Publications

2012

	Bernhard Kainz, Stefan Hauswiesner, Gerhard Reitmayr, Markus Steinberger, Raphael Grasset, Lukas Gruber, Eduardo Veas, Denis Kalkofen, Hartmut Seichter, Dieter Schmalstieg: OmniKinect: Real-Time Dense Volumetric Data Acquisition and Applications to appear in Symposium On Virtual Reality Software And Technology (VRST), 2012
	Markus Steinberger, Bernhard Kainz, Bernhard Kerbl, Stefan Hauswiesner, Michael Kenzel and Dieter Schmalstieg: Softshell: Dynamic Scheduling on GPUs conditionally accepted for ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 download source download supplemental material
	Philip Voglreiter, Markus Steinberger, Dieter Schmalstieg, Bernhard Kainz: Volumetric Real-Time Particle-Based Representation of Large Unstructured Tetrahedral Polygon Meshes in Proceedings of MICCAI MeshMed'12, 2012
	Rostislav Khlebnikov, Bernhard Kainz, Markus Steinberger, Marc Streit, Dieter Schmalstieg: Procedural texture synthesis for zoom-independent visualization of multivariate data in Proceedings of EuroVIS'12, 2012
	Markus Steinberger, Manuela Waldner, Dieter Schmalstieg: Interactive Self-Organizing Windows Computer Graphics Forum (EG'12), 2012
	Markus Steinberger, Michael Kenzel, Bernhard Kainz, Dieter Schmalstieg: ScatterAlloc: Massively Parallel Dynamic Memory Allocation for the GPU Proceedings of InPar'12, 2012 download source
	Stefan Hauswiesner, Rostislav Khlebnikov, Markus Steinberger, Matthias Straka, Gerhard Reitmayr: Multi-GPU Image-based Visual Hull Rendering Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2012
	Markus Steinberger, Bernhard Kainz, Stefan Hauswiesner, Rostislav Khlebnikov, Denis Kalkofen, Dieter Schmalstieg: Ray Prioritization Using Stylization and Visual Saliency Computers & Graphics, 2012

2011

	Manuela Waldner, Raphael Grasset, Markus Steinberger, Dieter Schmalstieg: Display-Adaptive Window Management for Irregular Surfaces in Proceedings of Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS'11), 2011.
	Markus Steinberger, Manuela Waldner, Marc Streit, Alexander Lex, Dieter Schmalstieg: Context-Preserving Visual Links InfoVis '11 Best Paper Award IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '11), 17(12), 2011.
	Bernhard Kainz, Markus Steinberger, Stefan Hauswiesner, Rostislav Khlebnikov, and Dieter Schmalstieg: Stylization-based ray prioritization for guaranteed frame rates NPAR '11 Best Paper Award in Rendering in Proceedings of Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR '11), pp. 44-53, 2011.
	Manuela Waldner, Markus Steinberger, Raphael Grasset, Dieter Schmalstieg: Importance-Driven Compositing Window Management CHI '11 Honorable Mention Award in Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11), pp. 959-968, 2011.
	Bernhard Kainz, Markus Steinberger, Stefan Hauswiesner, Rostislav Khlebnikov, Denis Kalkofen, Dieter Schmalstieg: Using Perceptual Features to Prioritize Ray-based Image Generation in Proceedings of Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2011 (I3D), 2011.

2010

Markus Steinberger and Markus Grabner: Wavelet-based Multiresolution Isosurface Rendering in Proceedings of Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Volume Graphics, 2010

2009

Markus Steinberger: Multiresolution Isosurface Rendering CESCG '09 3rd Best Paper Award in Proceedings of Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics (CESCG '09), 2009

Thesis Papers

Master's Thesis
Title: Highly accurate Multiresolution Isosurface Rendering using compactly supported Spline Wavelets
Supervision: Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Markus Grabner
Publication date: April 2010

Bachelor's Thesis
Title: Isosurface Representation and Rendering, an approach for polynomial isosurface functions
Supervision: Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Markus Grabner
Publication date: September 2008

Talks

• 17.5.2012
  Paper presentation at Eurographics 2012, Cagliari, Italy
  Interactive Self-Organizing Windows
  
• 26.10.2011
  Paper presentation at IEEE InfoVis 2011, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
  Context-Preserving Visual Links
  
• 2.5.2010
  Paper presentation at Eurographics/IEEE Volume Graphics 2010, Norrköping, Sweden
  Multiresolution Isosurface Rendering
  
• 21.4.2009
  Paper presentation at CESCG 2009, Budmerice Castle, Slovakia
  Wavelet-based Multiresolution Isosurface Rendering
  

Projects

Project Acquisition

• Co-author of the research proposal: Managed Volume Processing on the GPU
  Funded by FWF Austrian Science Fund, P23329.

Project Member

• Managed Volume Processing on the GPU
  Dynamic GPU Scheduling at micro and macro levels
  
• Deskotheque
  Research on Advanced User Interfaces and Multi-Display Environments
  

Teaching and Student Projects

Courses

Student Projects

• Thomas Geymayer, Visual Linking on the Desktop, Master's Thesis, 2012
• Jörg Müller, Solar System Shadows, Master's Project, 2012, video
• Michael Kenzel, Efficient Compiling for Megakernel Approaches in CUDA, Master's Project, 2012
• Bernhard Kerbel, Queue Sorting for Megakernel Approaches, Master's Project, 2012
• Severin Küberl, Web-based Drawing, Bachelor's Project, 2012