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Bernhard "Beinhart" Kerbl

Co-Principal Investigator
TU Wien
kerbl@cg.tuwien.ac.at


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Research Projects

  1. IVA3D
    Instant Visualization and Editing of Arbitrarily Large 3D Data Sets
    Bernhard Kerbl (PI), Markus Schütz
    $920k funded
    Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), 2026–2029.

  2. DSRARC
    Data-driven Simulation and Rendering for Autonomous Robotic Colonoscopy
    Hang Yin, Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen, Bernhard Kerbl (Collaborator)
    $60k equivalent hardware donation
    NVIDIA, 2025–2026.

  3. IVILPC
    Instant Visualization and Interaction for Large Point Clouds
    Eduard Gröller, Bernhard Kerbl (Co-PI), Markus Schütz, Michael Wimmer
    $700k funded
    Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), 2023–2026.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

* indicates equal contribution

  1. ACM TOG
    On-the-fly Reconstruction for Large-Scale Novel View Synthesis from Unposed Images
    Andreas Meuleman, Ishaan Shah, Alexandre Lanvin, Bernhard Kerbl, George Drettakis
    SIGGRAPH, 2025.

  2. ACM TOG
    Echoes of the Coliseum: Towards 3D Live Streaming of Sports Events
    Junkai Huang*, Saswat Subhajyoti Mallick*, Alejandro Amat, Marc Ruiz Olle, Albert Mosella-Montoro, Bernhard Kerbl, Francisco Vicente Carrasco, Fernando de la Torre
    SIGGRAPH, 2025.

  3. SNCS
    Automated Prioritization for Context-Aware Re-rendering in Editing
    Annalena Ulschmid, Katharina Krösl, Michael Wimmer, Bernhard Kerbl
    Springer Nature Computer Science, 2025.

  4. I3D
    VRSplat: Fast and Robust Gaussian Splatting for Virtual Reality
    Xuechang Tu, Lukas Radl, Michael Steiner, Markus Steinberger, Bernhard Kerbl, Fernando de la Torre
    ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2025.

  5. CGF
    Does 3D Gaussian Splatting Need Accurate Volumetric Rendering?
    Adam Celarek, Georgios Kopanas, George Drettakis, Michael Wimmer, Bernhard Kerbl
    Eurographics, 2025.

  6. ICLR
    OMG: Opacity Matters in Material Modeling with Gaussian Splatting
    Silong Yong, Venkata Nagarjun Pudureddiyur Manivannan, Bernhard Kerbl, Zifu Wan, Simon Stepputtis, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025.

  7. SIGGRAPH Asia Poster
    Fast and Robust 3D Gaussian Splatting for Virtual Reality
    Xuechang Tu, Bernhard Kerbl, Fernando de la Torre
    SIGGRAPH Asia (Posters), 2024.

  8. SIGGRAPH Asia
    Taming 3DGS: High-Quality Radiance Fields with Limited Resources
    Saswat S. Mallick*, Rahul Goel*, Bernhard Kerbl, Francisco V. Carrasco, Markus Steinberger, Fernando de la Torre
    SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024.

  9. CGF
    Cinematic Gaussians: Real-Time HDR Radiance Fields with Depth of Field
    Chao Wang, Krzysztof Wolski, Bernhard Kerbl, Ana Serrano, Mojtaba Bemama, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Thomas Leimkühler
    Pacific Graphics, 2024.

  10. CGF
    FastFlow: GPU Acceleration of Flow and Depression Routing for Landscape Simulation
    Aryamaan Jain, Bernhard Kerbl, James Gain, Brandon Finley, Guillaume Cordonnier
    Pacific Graphics, 2024.
    🏆 Best Paper Award

  11. PACMCGIT
    Real-Time Decompression and Rasterization of Massive Point Clouds
    Rahul Goel, Markus Schütz, PJ Narayanan, Bernhard Kerbl
    High-Performance Graphics, 2024.

  12. CGF
    MatUp: Repurposing Image Upsamplers for SVBRDFs
    Alban Gauthier, Bernhard Kerbl, Jérémy Levallois, Robin Faury, Jean-Marc Thiery, Tamy Boubekeur
    Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2024.

  13. ACM TOG
    StopThePop: Sorted Gaussian Splatting for View-Consistent Real-time Rendering
    Lukas Radl*, Michael Steiner*, Mathias Parger, Alexander Weinrauch, Bernhard Kerbl, Markus Steinberger
    SIGGRAPH, 2024.

  14. ACM TOG
    A Hierarchical 3D Gaussian Representation for Real-Time Rendering of Very Large Datasets
    Bernhard Kerbl*, Andreas Meuleman*, Georgios Kopanas, Alexandre Lanvin, Michael Wimmer, George Drettakis
    SIGGRAPH, 2024.

  15. EGPGV
    Fast Rendering of Parametric Objects on Modern GPUs
    Johannes Unterguggenberger, Lukas Lipp, Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Wimmer, Markus Schütz
    The Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2024.
    🏆 Best Paper Award

  16. PACMCGIT
    Reducing the Memory Footprint of 3D Gaussian Splatting
    Panagiotis Papantonakis, Georgios Kopanas, Bernhard Kerbl, Alexandre Lanvin, George Drettakis
    ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2024.

  17. GRAPP
    Real-Time Editing of Path-Traced Scenes with Prioritized Re-Rendering
    Annalena Ulschmid, Bernhard Kerbl, Katharina Krösl, Michael Wimmer
    International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 2024.
    🏆 Best Student Paper Award

  18. CGF
    GPU-Accelerated LOD Generation for Point Clouds
    Markus Schütz, Bernhard Kerbl, Philip Klaus, Michael Wimmer
    High-Performance Graphics, 2023.

  19. ACM TOG
    3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering
    Bernhard Kerbl*, Georgios Kopanas*, Thomas Leimkühler, George Drettakis
    SIGGRAPH, 2023.
    🏆 Best Paper Award

  20. ACM TOG
    Trim Regions for Online Computation of From-Region Potentially Visible Sets
    Philip Voglreiter, Bernhard Kerbl, Alexander Weinrauch, Joerg H. Mueller, Markus Steinberger, Dieter Schmalstieg
    SIGGRAPH, 2023.

  21. PACMCGIT
    NeRFshop: Interactive Editing of Neural Radiance Fields
    Clément Jambon, Bernhard Kerbl, Georgios Kopanas, Stavros Diolatzis, Thomas Leimkühler, George Drettakis
    ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2023.

  22. C&G
    Vulkan All the Way: Transitioning to a Modern Low-level Graphics API in Academia
    Johannes Unterguggenberger, Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Wimmer
    Computers and Graphics, 2023.

  23. ACM TOG
    QuadStream: A Quad-Based Scene Streaming Architecture for Novel Viewpoint Reconstruction
    Jozef Hladky, Michael Stengel, Nicholas Vining, Bernhard Kerbl, Hans-Peter Seidel, Markus Steinberger
    SIGGRAPH Asia, 2022.

  24. PACMCGIT
    Software Rasterization of 2 Billion Points in Real Time
    Markus Schütz, Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Wimmer
    High-Performance Graphics, 2022.
    🏆 Best Paper Award

  25. PACMCGIT
    Training and Predicting Visual Error for Real-Time Applications
    Joao Liborio Cardoso, Bernhard Kerbl, Lei Yang, Yury Uralsky, Michael Wimmer
    ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2022.

  26. EG Short
    An Improved Triangle Encoding Scheme for Cached Tessellation
    Bernhard Kerbl, Linus Horváth, Daniel Cornel, Michael Wimmer
    Eurographics, Short Papers, 2022.

  27. ICLR
    Gaussian Mixture Convolution Networks
    Adam Celarek, Pedro Hermosilla, Bernhard Kerbl, Timo Ropinski, Michael Wimmer
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022.

  28. EG Tutorial
    CUDA and Applications to Task-based Programming
    Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Kenzel, Martin Winter, Markus Steinberger
    Eurographics, Tutorials, 2022.

  29. WEBIST
    On Provisioning Procedural Geometry Workloads on Edge Architectures
    Ilir Murturi, Chao Jia, Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Wimmer, Schahram Dustdar, Christos Tsigkanos
    International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, 2021.

  30. CGF
    Conservative Meshlet Bounds for Robust Culling of Skinned Meshes
    Johannes Unterguggenberger, Bernhard Kerbl, Jakob Pernsteiner, Michael Wimmer
    Pacific Graphics, 2021.

  31. CGF
    Rendering Point Clouds with Compute Shaders and Vertex Order Optimization
    Markus Schütz, Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Wimmer
    Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2021.

  32. EGPGV
    Fast Multi-View Rendering for Real-Time Applications
    Johannes Unterguggenberger, Bernhard Kerbl, Markus Steinberger, Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Wimmer
    The Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2020.

  33. I3D
    Stochastic Substitute Trees for Real-Time Global Illumination
    Wolfgang Tatzgern, Benedikt Mayr, Bernhard Kerbl, Markus Steinberger
    ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2020.

  34. I3D Poster
    From Ground to Space: Real-time Rendering of Procedural Planets at Arbitrary Altitudes
    Florian Michelic, Michael Kenzel, Karl Haubenwallner, Bernhard Kerbl, Markus Steinberger
    ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (Posters), 2019.
    🏆 Best Poster Award

  35. PACMCGIT
    Revisiting the Vertex Cache: Understanding and Optimizing Vertex Processing on the modern GPU
    Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Kenzel, Elvena Ivanchenko, Dieter Schmalstieg, Markus Steinberger
    High-Performance Graphics, 2018.

  36. PACMCGIT
    On-the-fly Vertex Reuse for Massively-Parallel Software Geometry Processing
    Michael Kenzel, Bernhard Kerbl, Wolfgang Tatzgern, Elena Ivanchenko, Dieter Schmalstieg, Markus Steinberger
    High-Performance Graphics, 2018.

  37. ACM TOG
    A High-Performance Software Graphics Pipeline Architecture for the GPU
    Michael Kenzel, Bernhard Kerbl, Dieter Schmalstieg, Markus Steinberger
    SIGGRAPH, 2018.

  38. ICS
    The Broker Queue: A Fast, Linearizable FIFO Queue for Fine-Granular Work Distribution on the GPU
    Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Kenzel, Joerg H. Mueller, Dieter Schmalstieg, Markus Steinberger
    International Conference on Supercomputing, 2018.

  39. HPG
    Effective Static Bin Patterns for Sort-middle Rendering
    Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Kenzel, Dieter Schmalstieg, Markus Steinberger
    High-Performance Graphics, 2017.

  40. CGF
    Hierarchical Bucket Queuing for Fine-Grained Priority Scheduling on the GPU
    Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Kenzel, Dieter Schmalstieg, Hans-Peter Seidel, Markus Steinberger
    Computer Graphics Forum, 2016.

  41. CGF
    Interactive Disassembly Planning for Complex Objects
    Bernhard Kerbl, Denis Kalkofen, Markus Steinberger, Dieter Schmalstieg
    Eurographics, 2015.

  42. CHI
    Retargeting Technical Documentation to Augmented Reality
    Peter Mohr, Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Donoser, Dieter Schmalstieg, Denis Kalkofen
    Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015.

  43. ACM TOG
    Whippletree: Task-based Scheduling of Dynamic Workloads on the GPU
    Markus Steinberger, Michael Kenzel, Pedro Boechat, Bernhard Kerbl, Mark Dokter, Dieter Schmalstieg
    SIGGRAPH Asia, 2014.

  44. MICCAI CLIP
    Intervention Planning of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Radio-Frequency Ablations
    Bernhard Kerbl, Philip Voglreiter, Rostislav Khlebnikov, Dieter Schmalstieg, Daniel Seider, Michael Moche, Philipp Stiegler, Rupert H. Portugaller Bernhard Kainz
    Clinical Image-Based Procedures From Planning to Intervention, 2012.

  45. ACM TOG
    Softshell: Dynamic Scheduling on GPUs
    Markus Steinberger, Bernhard Kainz, Bernhard Kerbl, Stefan Hauswiesner, Michael Kenzel, Dieter Schmalstieg
    SIGGRAPH Asia, 2012.



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