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Bernhard Kainz Function: Research Scientist
Email: kainz(at)icg.tugraz.at
Phone: +43 316 873-5053
Address: Inffeldgasse 16/II, 8010 Graz, Austria
Office: Room ID02028

Bernhard Kainz received a M.Sc. in Computer Science (Telematics, Computer Graphics and Vision and Biomedical Engineering) from Graz University of Technology in 2007 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. He finished his Ph.D.-Thesis within the field of medical visualization, volume graphics and GPU algorithms in 2011. Currently his research is funded by the 7th Framework Programme by the European Commission in the context of the research project "IMPPACT" (FP7-2008-ICT-223877) which aims for plannable liver tumor radio frequency ablation and soon by the Managed Volume Rendering on the GPU project, which is funded by the FWF under contract 23329.

To be fully updated soon...

Publications | Teaching and Student Supervision | Curriculum Vitae | Projects | Research Interests

Publications



2012

  • Rostislav Khlebnikov, Bernhard Kainz, Markus Steinberger, Marc Streit, Dieter Schmalstieg:
    Procedural texture synthesis for zoom-independent visualization of multivariate data.
    to appear in Proceedings of EuroVIS 2012

  • Markus Steinberger, Michael Kenzel, Bernhard Kainz, Dieter Schmalstieg:
    ScatterAlloc: Massively Parallel Dynamic Memory Allocation for the GPU.
    to appear in Proceedings of inPar 2012

  • Bernhard Kainz, Rupert H. Portugaller, Daniel Seider, Michael Moche, Philipp Stiegler and Dieter Schmalstieg:
    Volume visualization in the clinical practice.
    to appear in Springer LNCS 2012

  • Markus Steinberger, Bernhard Kainz, Stefan Hauswiesner, Rostislav Khlebnikov, Denis Kalkofen and Dieter Schmalstieg:
    Ray Prioritization Using Stylization and Visual Saliency.
    to appear in Computers & Graphics 2012

2011
  • Bernhard Kainz, Rupert H. Portugaller, Daniel Seider, Michael Moche, Philipp Stiegler and Dieter Schmalstieg:
    Volume visualization in the clinical practice.
    Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions (AE-CAI'11), Sept. 2011

  • Rostislav Khlebnikov, Bernhard Kainz, Judith Muehl and Dieter Schmalstieg:
    Crepuscular Rays for Tumor Accessibility Planning.
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 17 Issue 12, pp. 2163--2172, December 2011
                  

  • Bernhard Kainz, Markus Steinberger, Stefan Hauswiesner, Rostislav Khlebnikov, and Dieter Schmalstieg:
    Stylization-based ray prioritization for guaranteed frame rates.
    in Proceedings of Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR'11), pp. 44-53, 2011 (best paper award in rendering)
                  

  • Rostislav Khlebnikov, Bernhard Kainz, Bernhard Roth, Judith Muehl and Dieter Schmalstieg:
    GPU based on-the-fly light emission-absorption approximation for direct multi-volume rendering.
    in Poster-Proceedings of EuroGraphics 2011
                  

  • S. Koestenbauer, P. Stiegler, V. Stadlbauer, U. Mayrhauser, B. Leber, D. Blattl, B. Kainz, O. Reich, R. H. Portugaller, I. Wiederstein and K.H. Tscheliessnigg:
    An easy way to visualize large-scale sections.
    J Surg Radiol. 2011 Apr 1;2(2), 170--173
        

  • 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), Feb. 2011.
        


2010
  • Tuomas Alhonnoro, Mika Pollari, Mikko Lilja, Ronan Flanagan, Bernhard Kainz, Judith Muehl, Ursula Mayrhauser, Horst Portugaller, Philipp Stiegler and Karlheinz Tscheliessnigg:
    Vessel Segmentation for Ablation Treatment Planning and Simulation.
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2010 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2010, Volume 6361/2010, 45-52
        


2009
  • Bernhard Kainz, Markus Grabner, Alexander Bornik, Stefan Hauswiesner, Judith Mühl, Dieter Schmalstieg:
    Efficient Ray Casting of Volumetric Datasets With Polyhedral Boundaries on Manycore GPUs
    ACM Trans. Graph., Volume 28 , Issue 5 (December 2009), Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, Article No. 152.
                



  • Judith K. Muehl, Bernhard K. Kainz, Horst R. Portugaller, Philipp B. Stiegler and Christian Bauer:
    Computer oriented image acquisition of the liver: Toward a better numerical model for radiofrequency ablation.
    Proc. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual Conference., pp. 3755-3758, IEEE, September 2009.
        


  • Judith K. Muehl, Bernhard Kainz, Alexander Bornik, Markus Grabner, Stefan Hauswiesner and Dieter Schmalstieg:
    The Future of Volume Graphics in Medical Virtual Reality.
    World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, IFMBE Proceedings, pp. 1349-1352, 2009.
        


  • Bernhard Kainz, Ursula Reiter, Gert Reiter, and Dieter Schmalstieg:
    In Vivo Interactive Visualization Of Four-Dimensional Blood Flow Patterns
    in: The Visual Computer, Volume 25, Number 9 / September, pp. 853-862 (2009)
        

  • Gert Reiter, Ursula Reiter, Gabor Kovacs, Bernhard Kainz, Karin Schmidt, Robert Maier, Horst Olschewski, Rainer Rienmüller:
    Magnetic resonance-derived three-dimensional blood flow patterns as marker of manifest pulmonary hypertension.
    European Journal of Radiology, Proc. 21st European Congress of Radiology, March 2009.
        
  • Ursula Reiter, Gert Reiter, Gabor Kovacs, Bernhard Kainz, Karin Schmidt, Robert Maier, Horst Olschewski, Rainer Rienmüller:
    Non-invasive measurement of elevated mean pulmonary arterial pressure.
    European Journal of Radiology, Proc. 21st European Congress of Radiology, March 2009.
        


2008
  • Bernhard Kainz, Markus Grabner and Matthias Rüther:
    Fast Marker Based C-Arm Pose Estimation
    LNCS, proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2008), New York, pp. 652-659 (2008).
             


  • Gert Reiter, Ursula Reiter, Gabor Kovacs, Bernhard Kainz, Karin Schmidt, Robert Maier, Horst Olschewski, and Rainer Rienmüller:
    MR Derived Three-Dimensional Blood Flow Patterns In The Main Pulmonary Artery As Marker Of Pulmonary Hypertension And Measure Of Elevated Mean Pulmonary Arterial Pressure.
    in: Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. 2008;1:23-30; doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.108.780247 (2008).
        


  • Daniel Wagner, Bernhard Kainz and Dieter Schmalstieg:
    Realtime 3D Graphics Programming Using the Quake3 Engine
    CGEMS Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source, SIGGRAPH Educational Committee and the Eurographics Education Board (2008), ACM Honorable Mention
            
  • Markus Grabner, Thomas Pock, Tobias Gross and Bernhard Kainz:
    Automatic Differentiation for GPU-Accelerated 2D/3D Registration.
    in: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 64, proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automatic Differentiation, ISBN 978-3-540-68935-5, pp. 259-269 (2008).
        

2007
  • Gert Reiter, Ursula Reiter, Bernhard Kainz, Andreas Greiser, Horst Bischof and Rainer Rienmüller:
    MR vector field measurement and visualization of normal and pathological time-resolved three-dimensional cardiovascular blood flow patterns.
    in: Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance 9 (2007) 2, pp. 237 - 238
        

Posters

  • Bernhard Kainz, Dieter Schmalstieg:
    GPU Visualization of Four-Dimensional Cardiovascular Bood Flow
    at: ECR IMAGINE 2008 for the Austrian Image Processing Group, European Society of Radiology, Vienna (Mar. 2008).
  • Daniela Markov-Vetter, Judith Muehl, Christian Geiger, Michael Riccabona, Bernhard Kainz and Erich Sorantin:
    3D Augmented Reality Simulator for Neonatal Cranial Sonography
    at: ECR IMAGINE 2008 for the Austrian Image Processing Group, European Society of Radiology, Vienna (Mar. 2008).

Thesis Papers


Talks

2010-2012 To be updated
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08.12.2010 EU Imppact project symposium, University Hospital Leipzig
Progress of the RFA VR and AR planning application
01.09.2010 EU Imppact project symposium, Oxford University, GB
Building a training simulator with real RFA data
18.12.2009 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, Session: GPU algorithms & systems
Efficient Ray Casting of Volumetric Datasets With Polyhedral Boundaries on Manycore GPUs
18.10.2009 Invited talk at Aalto University, Helsinki
Parallel data processing on the GPU
25.02.2009 EU Imppact project symposium, Medical University Graz, Austria
CT Data aquisition and data management at MUG and TUG
11.12.2008 Workshop on 3D Physiological Human, Zermatt
In Vivo Interactive Visualization Of Four-Dimensional Blood Flow Patterns
11.10.2008 Image Guided Radiation Therapy Workshop , Vienna, Oct. 2008
GPU Accelerated Visualization Techniques For Four-Dimensional Cardiovascular Blood Flow
11.10.2008 Image Guided Radiation Therapy Workshop, Vienna, Oct. 2008
Pattern Generation For Fast And Absolute C-Arm Pose Estimation

Exhibitions

  • Alexander Bornik, Bernhard Kainz:
    Stereoscopic Volume Rendering. Graz:CSI
    VITAL 2010, Graz, Austria, (Jan. 2010)
  • Bernhard Kainz, Dieter Schmalstieg:
    GPU Visualization of Four-Dimensional Cardiovascular Bood Flow
    ECR IMAGINE 2008 for the Austrian Image Processing Group, European Society of Radiology, Vienna (Mar. 2008)
  • Bernhard Kainz, Dieter Schmalstieg:
    Live Demo of GPU Acceleration for Medical Visualization
    Significant Advances in Computer Science (SACS), Graz Universtiy of Technology, Graz (Nov. 2007)

Teaching and Student Supervision


Courses

Since 2009 Computer Graphics - Selected Topics Lecture parts Winter term
Since 2009 Real-time Graphics 2 Lecture parts Summer term
Since 2008 Computer Graphics 1 Grading part Summer term
2008-2009 Augmented Reality Lab part Winter term
2007-2010 Real-time Graphics Lab & Grading Winter term
2008-2009 Virtual Reality Lab & Grading Summer term

Student Supervision


Open Student Projects

Ongoing Student Projects
02/2011 Master's Thesis Flexible air traffic controller information systems
by Bernhard Roth
02/2011 Bachelor's Thesis Augmented reality tumor accessibility visualization
by Thomas Malcher
Finished Student Projects
04/2011 Bachelor's Thesis A whole RFA simulation pipeline
by Bernhard Kerbel
06/2010 Master's Thesis Automatically generated design galleries for volume transfer functions
by Markus Muchitsch
02/2010 - 01/2011 Seminar project Light emission-absorption approximation for direct volume rendering
by Bernhard Roth
02/2010 - 06/2010 Seminar project Automatic peak detection in volumetric histograms
by Markus Muchitsch
06/2009 - 10/2009 Master's Thesis The Studierstube Builder
by Felix Nairz
04/2009 - 09/2009 Bachelor's Thesis CranUS II - neonatal cranial ultrasound simulator, co-supervision
by Philip Voglreiter
01/2009 - 06/2009 Seminar project Detecting pulmonary hypertension with 3D-4D LIC
by Felix Nairz
04/2008 - 10/2008 Master's Thesis CranUS - neonatal cranial ultrasound simulator, co-supervision
by Daniela Markov

Curriculum Vitae


Date of birth: January 27th, 1982
Place of birth: Graz, Austria
Nationality: Austrian

Education

May 2011 Ph.D. degree (Dr. techn.) from the Graz University of Technology with highest distinction
September-October 2009 Guest Researcher at TKK, Helsinki, Finland
2007 - 2011 Doctoral program (PhD) in computer science at the Graz University of Technology
Supervision: Prof. Dieter Schmalstieg and Prof. Markus Hadwiger
October 2007 Master's degree (Dipl.-Ing., MSc.) from the Graz University of Technology with highest distinction
2005 - 2007 Master's studies in Computer Science at the Graz University of Technology
June 2005 Bachelor's degree (Bakk. techn.) from the Graz University of Technology
2001 - 2005 Bachelor studies in Telematics
2001 Military service, Aufklaerungsbataillon 1, Hackherkaserne Gratkorn. (peeling potatoes)
2000 Graduation (Matura) at BG/BRG Fuerstenfeld with distinction
1992 - 2000 Secondary school (Gymnasium) BG/BRG Fuerstenfeld
1988 - 1992 Primary School (Volksschule) at Schillerplatz Fuerstenfeld

Professional

Since July 2008 Research Assistant at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision (Graz University of Technology)
December 2007 - July 2008 Research Assistant at the Department of Urology (Medical University of Innsbruck)
October 2007 - December 2007 Research assistant at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision (Graz University of Technology)
2004 - 2007 Part-time work for Siemens Healthcare Research, Programming, Project Management, 4D MRI handling
Since 2006 minimally employed at the "Institut für Hochspannungstechnik und Systemmanagement" Research, Programming, Illustrations
2001 - 2004 Magnasteyr Graz (automobile sector) Research, Programming, Webdesign, Quality Management, Project Management
1997 - 2000 Service at Stadtwerke Fürstenfeld Customer Service, Administration
1996 Cooking Internship at Restaurant Hofkeller in Fürstenfeld cooking on a high level (2 Gault Millau points)

Stipends, achievements, granted projects

2011 "Managed Volume Processing on the GPU".
Funded by FWF Austrian Science Fund, P23329.
2010 "FutureLab"
granted by Graz University of Technology
2008 "ACM Honorable Mention".
CGEMS Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source, SIGGRAPH Educational Committee and the Eurographics Education Board (2008). .
2007 Award for excellent performance as a student (Leistungsstipendium)
granted by the Faculty of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology
2007 Research grant for students (Förderstipendium)
awarded by the Faculty of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology

Scientific Activities

Reviewing for

  • EuroGraphics 2012
  • IEEE PacificVis 2012
  • IEEE International conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2011
  • Eurographics (EG) 2010
  • IEEE PacificVis 2010
  • International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 2010
  • International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertaiment Technology 2009
  • IEEE PacificVis 2009
  • International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertaiment Technology 2009
  • IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2008
  • International Journal of Design Engineering 2008
  • Elsevier Computers & Graphics 2008
  • HP-MICCAI 2008

Memberships in professional societies and interest groups

  • IEEE Computer Society
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI)
  • Eurographics Association (EG)

Projects


  • Image-based Multi-scale Physiological Planning for Ablation Cancer Treatment - IMPPACT
    Visit www.imppact.eu

    IMPPACT is a European FP7 ICT-Project (STREP) started on 1.09.2008 with the end on 31.08.2011. It aims to develop an intervention planning system for Radiofrequency Ablation of malignant liver tumours.



  • PASCAL
    In November 2007 I started my work on PASCAL (Position Awareness in Surgery through Computer Aided Localization) together with Prof. Bartsch from the Innsbruck University Clinic.

    We have massively used graphics hardware acceleration to reconstruct the biopsy position of a patient during surgery. The project has been stopped because of funding issues.

    4D-Flow
    Since 2004 I am working with Ursula Reiter and Gert Reiter with SIEMENS Healthcare, the Graz University clinic of Radiology and the Diagnstikzentrum Graz on phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging to measure and visualize cardiovascular blood flow. The image below side shows my own carotid artery with a nice one million particle effect.

  • Cran-US
    In Summer 2008 I supervised an internship at my institute to finalize a neonatal ultrasonic simulator. I exposed the Cran-US ultrasonic simulator, which is the work of Daniela Markov-Vetter, at the ECR conference 2008 in Vienna. The image below shows the setup there in action.


Research Interests


  • Medical Visualization
    • Volumetric medical image processing
    • High-dimensional / multi-variate data
    • Visual analytics / knowledge discovery
    • Automatic real-time methods
    • Volumetric segmentation/registration
    • GPU programming
    • Interaction
  • Biomedical engineering
    • Clinical Augmented Reality
    • MRI and CT sequence development
    • Clinical data management

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