This model is a virtual reconstruction of the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics in Saarbruecken building, done between 2003 and 2009. The resulting geometric, reflectance, and luminaire data can be used for various research activities including computer graphics, computational and algorithmic geometry, computer vision, databases, etc. A significant advantage of this data set is the availability and accessibility of the real building as a reference for other data acquisitions and validations of proposed and tested algorithms. The level of detail of the building model goes down to the furniture installed in the building. The size of the 3D model is in the tens of millions of triangles.

You are welcome to use the data and models for research purposes and redistribute them for free. Please keep the rendered images and other uses of this model or its parts in good taste. You may publish images made using these models, data, or the images on this web site, in a scholarly article or book - as long as credit is given to the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics. The model, images, or other data on this website are not to be used for commercial purposes without our explicit permission.

Please be sure to acknowledge the source of the data if you use it for your research, either in the text or in the acknowledgements of your publication. We appreciate citing the research report ([PDF], [BibTex] or [BibTex short]).

• MPI Informatics building 3D data in different formats
  
• 3D library of individual objects used in the building, mostly furniture
  
• Input data used to create the model
  
• Eight HDR photos taken inside the building
  
• Luminaire measurements and data
  
• Reflectance (BRDF) data used in the building
  
• Comparison of rendered images with real photos for 8 different views inside the building
  
• Gallery of nice views from the finished model
  
• Gallery of miscellaneous preview images from the virtual reconstruction project
  
• FAQs and feedback for this project
  
• Known bugs in the dataset for version 1.0 of this project
  
• Acknowledgement for the help on this project
  

• Research Report: [PDF], [BibTeX], and [BibTex short], December 2009.
• Project presentation slides: [PDF], July 2009.
• EGSR 2010 presentation slides: [PDF] and poster [PDF], June 2010.