Portrait Christian Lauterbach
Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Email:  cl (at) cs.unc.edu

Office: Sitterson 328

Contact Information:
Sitterson Hall, CB #3175
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
Tel: (919) 360-8962

About me

I am a third-year grad student at UNC and currently working in the GAMMA group with Dinesh Manocha. I graduated in 2005 from the University of Bremen in Germany with a Diploma in Computer Science.  In Summer 2006, I worked at Intel's Applications Research Lab, and in Summer 2007 I worked at NVIDIA Research. You can find my CV here.

My research interests include interactive ray tracing, massive model visualization as well as global illumination and sound propagation algorithms. You may also want to have a look at our overview page of ray tracing research at GAMMA.

Publications:

ReduceM Christian Lauterbach, Sung-Eui Yoon, Min Tang, and Dinesh Manocha, "ReduceM: Interactive and Memory Efficient Ray Tracing of Large Models", Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EGSR 2008), Vol 27 (3), 2008.
Ray-Strips Teaser Christian Lauterbach, Sung-Eui Yoon and Dinesh Manocha, "Ray-Strips: A Compact Mesh Representation for Interactive Ray Tracing", IEEE/EG 2007 Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing
CACM07 Teaser Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Christian Lauterbach, Anish Chandak, Dinesh Manocha and Ming C. Lin, "Real-time Sound Synthesis for Computer Games", Comm. ACM,  Vol. 50, No. 7 (July 2007), pp 66-73
ICA07 Teaser Christian Lauterbach, Anish Chandak, and Dinesh Manocha, "Adaptive Sampling for Frustum-based Sound Propagation in Complex and Dynamic Environments", 19th International Congress on Acoustics, 2007 (invited paper)
VIS07 Teaser Christian Lauterbach, Anish Chandak, and Dinesh Manocha, "Interactive Sound Propagation in Dynamic Scenes Using Frustum Tracing", IEEE TVCG (Proc. IEEE Visualization 2007). Vol 13 (6), 2007, pp 1672-1679
RT-DEFORM Teaser Christian Lauterbach, Sung-Eui Yoon, David Tuft, and Dinesh Manocha, "RT-DEFORM: Interactive Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes Using BVHs", Proc. 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, 2006.
R-LOD Teaser Sung-Eui Yoon, Christian Lauterbach, and Dinesh Manocha, "R-LODs: Fast LOD-based Ray Tracing of Massive Models",Visual Computer (Proc. Pacific Graphics '06), 2006. Also a sketch at SIGGRAPH '06.
Thesis teaser Christian Lauterbach, "Photon Density Estimation Using Wavelet Compression", Diploma/Master's thesis. University of Bremen, 2005.