Martin Kraus

Education

1991: "Abitur" from the Ehrenbürg Gymnasium Forchheim
1997: physics diploma from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (diploma thesis in theoretical nuclear physics)
1999-2003: PhD student in the visualization and interactive systems group at the University of Stuttgart
July 2003 - June 2004: post-doctoral research associate in the PURPL lab at Purdue
September 2005 - August 2006: researcher in the visualization and interactive systems group at the University of Stuttgart
since September 2006: researcher in the computer graphics & visualization group at the Technische Universität München

Publications and Talks

• Martin Kraus. Interactive Graphics Everywhere. Mathematica in Education and Research, Vol.8, No.2, 1999.
• Stefan Röttger, Martin Kraus, and Thomas Ertl. Hardware-Accelerated Volume and Isosurface Rendering Based on Cell-Projection. In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '00, pages 109-116. (web page)
• Martin Kraus and Thomas Ertl. Simplification of Nonconvex Tetrahedral Meshes. Talk presented at the NSF/DoE Lake Tahoe Workshop on ... Visualization, October 2000.
• Martin Kraus and Thomas Ertl. Interactive Data Exploration with Customized Glyphs. In Proceedings of WSCG '01, pages P20-P23, 2001
• Martin Kraus and Thomas Ertl. Topology-Guided Downsampling. In Proceedings of Volume Graphics '01, 2001. (talk)
• Klaus Engel, Martin Kraus, and Thomas Ertl. High-Quality Pre-Integrated Volume Rendering Using Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Shading. In Eurographics / SIGGRAPH Workshop on Graphics Hardware '01, 2001. (web page)
• Martin Kraus and Thomas Ertl. Cell-Projection of Cyclic Meshes. In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '01, 2001. (talk)
• Martin Kraus. Direct Manipulation of Parametrized Graphics. Talk presented at the Mathematica Developer Conference 2001.
• Martin Kraus. Truly Volumetric Effects. In: Wolfgang Engel, Direct3D ShaderX, Wordware 2002.
• Martin Kraus. Parametrized Graphics in Mathematica. Talk presented at the SCI 2002.
• Martin Kraus and Thomas Ertl. Adaptive Texture Maps. In Eurographics / SIGGRAPH Workshop on Graphics Hardware '02, 2002. (talk)
• Manfred Weiler, Martin Kraus, and Thomas Ertl. Hardware-Based View-Independent Cell Projection. In Proceedings Symposium on Volume Visualization '02, 2002.
• Direkte Volumenvisualisierung geometrisch unangenehmer Gitter. (Talk on my PhD-thesis, in German. Download pdf or ppt, each about 4.6 MB)
• Direct Volume Visualization of Geometrically Unpleasant Meshes. PhD thesis, 2003. (pdf, ps.gz)
• Martin Kraus and Thomas Ertl. Simplification of Nonconvex Tetrahedral Meshes. In G. Farin, H. Hagen, and B. Hamann, Editors, Hierarchical and Geometrical Methods in Scientific Visualization, pages 185-196. Springer Verlag, 2003.
• Jürgen P. Schulze, Martin Kraus, Ulrich Lang, and Thomas Ertl. Integrating Pre-Integration in the Shear-Warp Algorithm. In Proceedings Third International Workshop on Volume Graphics 2003, pages 109-118, 2003.
• Manfred Weiler, Martin Kraus, Markus Merz and Thomas Ertl. Hardware-Based View-Independent Cell Projection. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 9(3):298-312, 2003.
• Manfred Weiler, Martin Kraus, Markus Merz and Thomas Ertl. Hardware-Based Ray Casting for Tetrahedral Meshes. In Proceedings IEEE Visualization '03, pages 333-340, 2003.
• Martin Kraus and Thomas Ertl. Topology-Guided Downsampling and Volume Visualisation. In S. Rana, Editor, Topological Data Structures for Surfaces: An Introduction for Geographical Information Science, pages 131-142, John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
• Martin Kraus and Thomas Ertl. Pre-Integrated Volume Rendering. In C. D. Hansen and C. R. Johnson, Editors, The Visualization Handbook, Academic Press, pp. 211-228, 2004.
• Manfred Weiler, Martin Kraus, Stefan Guthe, Thomas Ertl, and Wolfgang Strasser. Ray Casting with Programmable Graphics Hardware. In Data Visualization 2004, Springer-Verlag, accepted for publication.
• Manfred Weiler, Paula N. Mallón, Martin Kraus, and Thomas Ertl. Texture-Encoded Tetrahedral Strips. In Proceedings Symposium on Volume Visualization '04, pages 71-78, 2004.
• Kirk Riley, David S. Ebert, Martin Kraus, Jerry Tessendorf, Chuck Hansen. Efficient Rendering of Atmospheric Phenomena. In Proceedings Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2004, pp. 375-386, 2004. (preprint)
• Martin Kraus, Wei Qiao, David S. Ebert. Projecting Tetrahedra without Rendering Artifacts. In Proceedings IEEE Visualization 2004, pp. 27-34, 2004. (preprint)
• Martin Kraus. Scale-Invariant Volume Rendering. In Proceedings IEEE Visualization 2005, pp. 295-302, 2005. (preprint)
• Kirk Riley, Yuyan Song, Martin Kraus, David S. Ebert, and Jason J. Levit. Visualization of Structured Nonuniform Grids. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 46-55, 2006. (preprint)
• Magnus Strengert, Martin Kraus, and Thomas Ertl. Pyramid Methods in GPU-Based Image Processing. In Proceedings VMV 2006, pp.169-176, 2006. preprint)
• Martin Kraus, Magnus Strengert, Thomas Klein, and Thomas Ertl. Adaptive Sampling in Three Dimensions for Volume Rendering on GPUs. In Proceedings APVIS 2007, accepted for publication. (preprint)
• Martin Kraus and Magnus Strengert. Pyramid Filters Based on Bilinear Interpolation. In Proceedings GRAPP 2007, accepted for publication. (preprint)

Ongoing Projects

• LiveGraphics3D: a Java applet which can display Mathematica graphics

Closed (more or less) Projects

• visualization of non-convex and/or cyclic tetrahedral meshes
• pre-integrated volume rendering (together with Klaus Engel)
• volume rendering based on cell-projection (together with Stefan Röttger)
• glyphs: a set of IRIS Explorer modules for customized glyphs
• PolygonTriangulation: two Mathematica packages for the triangulation of polygons

Private Projects

• w4w: a simple applet for formatting word-by-word translations
• Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill: my translation project (only in German)
• Gates Wide Shut: my anti-MS page

Other Interests/Links

• favorite news (in German): DIE ZEIT, heute, heise online news
• favorite rental service: Amazon.de DVD rental service (in German)
• favorite encyclopedia: Eric Weissteins's World of Mathematics
• favorite truth: no one said it would be easy (Sheryl Crow)
• favorite prophesy: Thursday's child has far to go (from the poem Monday's Child)
• favorite distant ancestor: Adolf Clarenbach (in German)