Ament

Dr. Marco Ament

  • Am Fasanengarten 5, Gebäude 50.34, 1. OG, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

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Personal Background

I am a PostDoc at the Institute of Visualization and Data Analysis (IVD) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. My research interests include scientific visualization, computer graphics, and high performance computing on GPUs. I finished my PhD thesis on Computational Visualization of Scalar Fields, supervised by Daniel Weiskopf. Before moving to Karlsruhe, I was a research assistant at the Visualization Research Center (VISUS), University of Stuttgart, Germany. In 2009, I received a Diplom (MSc) degree in computer science from the University of Tübingen, Germany, focusing on computer graphics at the department of Graphical Interactive Systems (GRIS).

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Research Topics
Committee Activities
Special Achievements
2nd Place of Computer Graphics Forum 2015 Cover Image Contest
Authors: Marco Ament, Filip Sadlo, Carsten Dachsbacher, and Daniel Weiskopf
Vortex
Published: Computer Graphics Forum, 2015
Winner of Computer Graphics Forum 2014 Cover Image Contest
Authors: Marco Ament, Filip Sadlo, and Daniel Weiskopf
Supernova
Published: Computer Graphics Forum, 33(1): 305-306, 2014
IEEE SciVis 2013 Honorable Mention Award
Authors: Marco Ament, Filip Sadlo, and Daniel Weiskopf
HonorableMention2013
Published: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 19(12): 2936-2945, 2013
Informatik Spektrum Cover Image
Authors: Marco Ament, Filip Sadlo, and Daniel Weiskopf
InformatikSpektrum2013
Published: Informatik Spektrum, 36(5): Front Cover, 2013
Evans & Sutherland Cooperation
Authors: Stephan Wenger, Marco Ament, Daniel Weiskopf, and Marcus Magnor
ES
Published: DigiStar 5 Brochure, 2012
EGPGV 2009 Front Cover Image
Authors: Marco Ament and Wolfgang Straßer
EGPGV2009
Published: Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, Front Cover, 2009
Publications
Extinction-Optimized Volume Illumination
Authors: Marco Ament, Tobias Zirr, and Carsten Dachsbacher
Published: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear, 2016
Ambient Volume Illumination
Authors: Marco Ament, Daniel Weiskopf and Carsten Dachsbacher
Paper
Published: IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, 18(2): 90-97, 2016
Anisotropic Ambient Volume Shading
Authors: Marco Ament and Carsten Dachsbacher
Paper Video
Published: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 22(1):1015-1024, 2016

(Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2015)

Visualization of Coherent Structures of Light Transport
Authors: Tobias Zirr, Marco Ament, and Carsten Dachsbacher
Paper Paper
Published: Computer Graphics Forum, 34(3): 491-500, 2015

(Proceedings of EuroVis 2015)

Low-Pass Filtered Volumetric Shadows
Authors: Marco Ament, Filip Sadlo, Carsten Dachsbacher, and Daniel Weiskopf
Paper Video
Published: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12): 2437-2446, 2014

(Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2014)

Computational Visualization of Scalar Fields
Authors: Marco Ament
Paper
Published: Dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 2014
Refractive Radiative Transfer Equation
Authors: Marco Ament, Christoph Bergmann, and Daniel Weiskopf
Paper
Published: ACM Transactions on Graphics, 33(2): 17:1-17:22, 2014

(Presented at SIGGRAPH 2014)

Ambient Volume Scattering [Honorable Mention Award]
Authors: Marco Ament, Filip Sadlo, and Daniel Weiskopf
Preprint
Published: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 19(12): 2936-2945, 2013

(Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2013)

 Book Chapter: GPU-Accelerated Visualization
Authors: Marco Ament, Steffen Frey, Christoph Müller, Sebastian Grottel, Thomas Ertl, and Daniel Weiskopf
 
Published: High Performance Visualization: Enabling Extreme-Scale Scientific Insight, pages 223-260, 2012
Spectral Analysis of Higher-Order and BFECC Texture Advection
Authors: Rudolf Netzel, Marco Ament, Michael Burch, and Daniel Weiskopf
Preprint
Published: Proceedings of the Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV), pages 87-94, 2012
Visualization of Astronomical Nebulae via Distributed Multi-GPU Compressed Sensing Tomography
Authors: Stephan Wenger, Marco Ament, Stephan Guthe, Dirk Lorenz, Andreas Tillmann, Daniel Weiskopf, and Marcus Magnor
Preprint
Published: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(12): 2188-2197, 2012 (Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2012)
Interactive Visualization and Simulation of Astronomical Nebulae
Authors: Stephan Wenger, Marco Ament, Wolfgang Steffen, Nico Koning, Daniel Weiskopf, and Marcus Magnor
Preprint
Published: IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, 14(3): 78-87, 2012
GPU-Based Four-Dimensional General-Relativistic Ray Tracing
Authors: Daniel Kuchelmeister, Thomas Müller, Marco Ament, Günter Wunner, and Daniel Weiskopf
Preprint
Published: Computer Physics Communications, 183(10): 2282–2290, 2012
GPU-Based Two-Dimensional Flow Simulation Steering using Coherent Structures
Authors: Marco Ament, Steffen Frey, Filip Sadlo, Thomas Ertl, and Daniel Weiskopf
Preprint
Published: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, paper 18, 2011
Sort First Parallel Volume Rendering
Authors: Brendan Moloney, Marco Ament, Daniel Weiskopf, and Torsten Möller
Preprint
Published: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17(8): 1164-1177, 2011
Direct Interval Volume Visualization
Authors: Marco Ament, Daniel Weiskopf, and Hamish Carr
Preprint
Published: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16(6): 1505-1514, 2010

(Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2010)

A Parallel Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Solver for the Poisson Problem on a Multi-GPU Platform
Authors: Marco Ament, Günter Knittel, Daniel Weiskopf, and Wolfgang Straßer
Preprint
Published: Proceedings of the 18th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Computing (PDP), pages 583-592, 2010
Dynamic Grid Refinement for Fluid Simulations on Parallel Graphics Architectures
Authors: Marco Ament, and Wolfgang Straßer
Preprint
Published: Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), pages 9-15, 2009
Hardware Accelerated Fluid Dynamics with Adaptive Grid Refinement
Authors: Marco Ament
Preprint
Published: WSI/GRIS, University of Tübingen, Diploma Thesis, 2008
Reviews
Journals:

Computer Graphics Forum (2013, 2014, 2015)
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (2010)
IEEE Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (2011)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2013, 2014, 2015)
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (2010)
Parallel Computing (2011)
The Visual Computer (2009)

Conferences:

ACM SIGGRAPH (2011)
Computer Graphics International (2014)
Eurographics (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)
Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (2010, 2011, 2013)
EuroVis (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)
Grapp (2011)
High Performance Graphics (2010)
IEEE Visualization (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Motion in Games (2011)
PacificVis (2012)
PDP (2014)
Vision, Modeling and Visualization Workshop (2010)