Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Hopf

I am currently Professor for Applied Computer Science at the Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Science at the department of Electrical Engineering, Precision Engineering, Information Technology. My base field is Media Engineering.

Former Affiliations

• I started work on my PhD thesis at the Computer Graphics group of the computer science department at the University of Erlangen.
  I was finanzed by SFB 603, subproject C1, which was later transformed to SFB 382 D6.

• I finished my PhD at the Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS) institute of the computer science department at the University of Stuttgart.
  I was finanzed by SFB 382, subproject D6: Adaptive Methods and Hierarchical Data Structures used for the Integration of Data Analysis and Visualization.

• I worked 7 years for SuSE Linux Products, extending and supporting X11.

Lecture

Topics of Research

• X.org, DRI, future development of 3D graphics hardware and integration into the X windows system.
  • radeonhd, the X.org driver for current ATI cards with R6xx and R7xx chipsets

  • Mesa, building an r6xx driver based on documentation by ATI

• Point-based rendering

• Video playback, compression, and codecs
  • xine, MPlayer, XBox Media Center
  • HDTV german overview, demo files (WMV3 only :( )
  • ffmpeg, XVid

• Visualization on multi resolution grids
  • Volume visualization on sparse grids
    For that topic take also a look at my web pages about my diploma thesis.
  • Hardware accelerated volume visualization in general

• Hardware Accelerated Filter Operations.
  This covers linear filters, wavelets and morphological operations.

You may also want to take a look at my projects page.

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