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MPI Informatics Building Model v1.0 - Acknowledgements for the Help with the Project

We would like to thank all the people who kindly helped us during the work on the project of the MPI Informatics Building Model v1.0 between 2003 and 2009, including all the funding resources which supported us. As there are so many, we can list only the most important persons and institutions in a roughly chronological order:

  • Karol Myszkowski for his kind help and advices before and during the project. We were highly inspired by his and Frederic Drago's Atrium project for predictive rendering. Without his help and support our project would have been hardly realizable.

  • Roxane Wetzel from the MPII administration and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Paul from the University of Saarbruecken, who helped us to acquire some of the original 3D building data (in the DXF format) in order to start the project in 2003. Furthermore, Roxane Wetzel supplied us with the architectural drawings of the real MPII building and kindly helped us during the whole lifetime of this project.

  • Akiko Yoshida, Grzegorz Krawczyk, and Rafal Mantiuk for helping us with the HDR image acquisition, measurement preparation, and postprocessing in June 2004.

  • The European Union within the scope of the RealReflect IST project (IST-2001-34744) for partial funding of the project from June 2003 until November 2004. The project for the MPI Informatics building virtual reconstruction was initially motivated by the needs and objectives of the RealReflect project.

  • Prof. Jiri Habel and Dipl.-Ing. Marek Balsky from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, for their kind help and advices for the measurements of the luminaires.

  • The administration of the MPII building and the Computer Graphics Group, in particular to Sabine Budde, Conny Liegl, Michael Bentz, and Gabi Holzer for really efficient and responsive administrative help on our project. We also thank Michael Laise and Axel Koeppel from the building administration for providing access to several spare parts needed for the data acquistion. Furthermore, we would like to express our thanks to the Computer Services and Technology Department at the MPII for providing us with all the hardware and software support needed for the project.

  • Lukas Novosad and Michal Hapala at the Czech Technical University in Prague for carefully proofreading and correcting webpages for this project.

  • All the colleagues and friends at the MPII in Saarbruecken for sharing their time and interests, providing us with moral support and encouragement, and for having fun during the project.


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