Dieter Schmalstieg

Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.

Dieter Schmalstieg is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is also an adjunct professor at Graz University of Technology, Austria, where he previously headed the Institute of Visual Computing. His current research interests are augmented reality, virtual reality, computer graphics, visualization and human-computer interaction.

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Additional Information

Dieter Schmalstieg received Dipl.-Ing. (1993), Dr. techn. (1997) and Habilitation (2001) from Vienna University of Technology. He is author and co-author of over 400 peer-reviewed scientific publications with over 29,000 citations and over twenty best paper awards and nominations. His current and past organizational roles include associate editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, associate editor of Frontiers in Virtual reality, member of the steering committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, chair of the EUROGRAPHICS working group on Virtual Environments, key researcher of the K-Plus Competence Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization in Vienna and key researcher of the Know-Center in Graz. In 2002, he received the START career award presented by the Austrian Science Fund. In 2008, he founded the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Handheld Augmented Reality. In 2012, he received the IEEE Virtual Reality technical achievement award, and, in 2020, the IEEE ISMAR Career Impact Award. He was elected as Fellow of IEEE, as a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Young Curia), the Academia Europaea, and the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy.

Publications

A LoD of Gaussians: Out-of-Core Training and Rendering for Seamless Ultra-Large Scene Reconstruction

Windisch, F., Köhler, T., Radl, L., D'Urso, M., Steiner, M., Schmalstieg, D., Steinberger, M.

Proceedings - SIGGRAPH 2026 Conference Papers, 2026

Hybrid User Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future of Complementary Cross-Device Interaction in Mixed Reality

Hubenschmid, S., Satkowski, M., Zagermann, J., Méndez, J., Elmqvist, N., Feiner, S., Feuchtner, T., Grønbæk, J., Lee, B., Schmalstieg, D., Dachselt, R., Reiterer, H.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 32(7), 2026, 7380-7399

Semantic Scene Graphs for Creating a Localization-Ready Internet of Things

Kolberg, J., Pabst, M., Biener, V., Mori, S., Schmalstieg, D.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 32(8), 2026, 7517-7531

Ambient Analytics: Calm Technology for Immersive Visualization and Sensemaking

Hubenschmid, S., Srinivasan, A., Elmqvist, N., Schmalstieg, D., Sedlmair, M., Rhyne, T.

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 46(3), 2026, 110-117

HandLight: Light Estimation from Hand Interaction in Mixed Reality

Mandl, D., Kalkofen, D., Mohr, P., Schmalstieg, D., Plopski, A.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 32(5), 2026, 3841-3850

Revisiting Hybrid Input Devices for Immersive Analytics

Hubenschmid, S., Zagermann, J., Elmqvist, N., Feuchtner, T., Grubert, J., Tatzgern, M., Schmalstieg, D., Reiterer, H.

Proceedings - 2025 IEEE Conference on Human Factors in Immersive Analytics, HFIA 2025, 2026, 29-33

Potentially Visible Set Generation with the Disocclusion Buffer.

Künzel, S., Geringer, S., Ngo, Q., Voglreiter, P., Weiskopf, D., Schmalstieg, D.

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers, 2025

SOF: Sorted Opacity Fields for Fast Unbounded Surface Reconstruction

Radl, L., Windisch, F., Deixelberger, T., Hladky, J., Steiner, M., Schmalstieg, D., Steinberger, M.

SA Conference Papers '25: Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers, 2025

SpatialMouse: A Hybrid Pointing Device for Seamless Interaction Across 2D and 3D Spaces

Hubenschmid, S., Zagermann, J., Erb, R., Feuchtner, T., Grubert, J., Tatzgern, M., Schmalstieg, D., Reiterer, H.

Proceedings VRST 2025 - 31st ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2025, (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST; Vol. Part of 215351)