2026 Carsten Dachsbacher: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	40	9409	9139	465	453	187	5608

Overview

Carsten Dachsbacher is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research spans across multiple fields within computer science and engineering, with significant contributions to computer vision, computer graphics, and computational mechanics.

The scientist's main research domains include:

Computer Science
Engineering

Within these domains, their subfields of study cover:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computational Mechanics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Environmental Engineering

The primary research topics addressed in their work are:

Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Advanced Vision and Imaging
Data Visualization and Analytics
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Data Management and Algorithms

Frequent publication venues for their research outputs include:

Computer Graphics Forum
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Eurographics
arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their contributions:

Visual Analysis of Large Multivariate Scattered Data using Clustering and Probabilistic Summaries (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Sensor-Realistic Simulations for Evaluation and Planning of Optical Measurement Systems With an Application to Laser Triangulation (2020), published in IEEE Sensors Journal
Procedural Physically based BRDF for Real-Time Rendering of Glints (2020), published in Computer Graphics Forum
Real-Time Geometric Glint Anti-Aliasing with Normal Map Filtering (2021), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Path Guiding with Vertex Triplet Distributions (2022), published in Computer Graphics Forum

Collaborations have involved several frequent co-authors, including:

Johannes Hanika
Vincent Schüßler
Max Piochowiak
Tobias Rapp
Xavier Chermain

Best Publications

Reflective shadow maps

Carsten Dachsbacher;Marc Stamminger

389
Citations
Sequential point trees

Carsten Dachsbacher;Christian Vogelgsang;Marc Stamminger

310
Citations
Imperfect shadow maps for efficient computation of indirect illumination

T. Ritschel;T. Grosch;M. H. Kim;H.-P. Seidel

308
Citations
Cascaded light propagation volumes for real-time indirect illumination

Anton Kaplanyan;Carsten Dachsbacher

239
Citations
The State of the Art in Interactive Global Illumination

Tobias Ritschel;Carsten Dachsbacher;Thorsten Grosch;Jan Kautz

219
Citations
Splatting indirect illumination

Carsten Dachsbacher;Marc Stamminger

191
Citations
Translucent shadow maps

Carsten Dachsbacher;Marc Stamminger

172
Citations
Spatiotemporal variance-guided filtering: real-time reconstruction for path-traced global illumination

Christoph Schied;Anton Kaplanyan;Chris Wyman;Anjul Patney

165
Citations
Perspective accurate splatting

Matthias Zwicker;Jussi Räsänen;Mario Botsch;Carsten Dachsbacher

163
Citations
Scalable Realistic Rendering with Many-Light Methods

Carsten Dachsbacher;Jaroslav Křivánek;Miloš Hašan;Adam Arbree

143
Citations
Micro-rendering for scalable, parallel final gathering

T. Ritschel;T. Engelhardt;T. Grosch;H.-P. Seidel

143
Citations
Implicit visibility and antiradiance for interactive global illumination

Carsten Dachsbacher;Marc Stamminger;George Drettakis;Frédo Durand

141
Citations
Multiple-scattering microfacet BSDFs with the Smith model

Eric Heitz;Johannes Hanika;Eugene d'Eon;Carsten Dachsbacher

129
Citations
Virtual ray lights for rendering scenes with participating media

Jan Novák;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Carsten Dachsbacher;Wojciech Jarosz

97
Citations
The SGGX microflake distribution

Eric Heitz;Jonathan Dupuy;Cyril Crassin;Carsten Dachsbacher

94
Citations
Multiplexed metropolis light transport

Toshiya Hachisuka;Anton S. Kaplanyan;Carsten Dachsbacher

88
Citations
CUDASA: compute unified device and systems architecture

M. Strengert;C. Müller;C. Dachsbacher;T. Ertl

87
Citations
Dual-color mixing for fused deposition modeling printers

Tim Reiner;Tim Reiner;Nathan Carr;Radomír Měch;Ondřej Št'ava

87
Citations
Adaptive progressive photon mapping

Anton S. Kaplanyan;Carsten Dachsbacher

83
Citations
The natural-constraint representation of the path space for efficient light transport simulation

Anton S. Kaplanyan;Johannes Hanika;Carsten Dachsbacher

82
Citations
Scalable Realistic Rendering with Many-Light Methods.

Carsten Dachsbacher;Jaroslav Krivánek;Milos Hasan;Adam Arbree

10
Citations
The gödel engine - an interactive approach to visualization in general relativity

Frank Grave;Thomas Müller;Carsten Dachsbacher;Günter Wunner

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Stamminger University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Tobias Ritschel University College London

Jan Kautz Nvidia (United States)

Wojciech Jarosz Dartmouth College

Sylvain Lefebvre University of Lorraine

Hans-Peter Seidel Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Thomas Ertl University of Stuttgart

Derek Nowrouzezahrai McGill University

Daniel Weiskopf University of Stuttgart

George Drettakis French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

External Links

Personal website of Carsten Dachsbacher

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