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Master and bachelor thesis

PhD students (former):

• Marek Vinkler, Masaryk's University Brno, the second supervisor together with Assoc. Prof. Jiri Sochor, thesis title "Construction of Acceleration Data Structures for Ray Tracing",defended in March 2015, [PDF].
• Michal Hapala, thesis title "Data Structures and Algorithms for Interactive Ray Tracing", defended in December 2015.

Master students (former):

• Tomas Reinhold, project "Photographic camera device from the camera for computer vision, (graduated 2024).
• Patrik Schiller, project "Rendering for virtual reality in high resolution using measured BTF data", (graduated June 2022).
• Petr Frantal, project "Ray Tracing with Bounding Volume Hierarchies on a CPU", (graduated February 2019).
• Adam Papousek, project "Efficient light simulator for optical systems formulated by NURBS surfaces", (graduated January 2017, Dean's award).
• Jan Langr, project "Data Structures for Ray Tracing for Mobile Devices with Android OS", (graduated June 2016).
• Petr Sefcik, project "Real-time global illumination using Cascaded Light Propagation Volumes", (graduated February 2016, Dean's award).
• Petr Egert, project "Compression Algorithms for BTF Data on a GPU", (graduated June 2014, Dean's award).
• Tomas Barak, project "Global Illumination via Instant Radiosity", (graduated June 2012).
• Tomas Nikodym, project "Global Illumination Computation for Augmented Reality", (graduated June 2012).
• Jiri Nekola, project "BRDFLIB - software library for reflectance functions", (graduated February 2012).
• Michal Lukac, project "Progressive consistent computation of global illumination", (graduated June 2011, Dean's award).
• Ondrej Karlik, project "Data Structures for Interpolation of Illumination with Radiance and Irradiance Caching", (graduated June 2011, Dean's award).
• Ondrej Kozelka, project "HDR Images Acquisition" (graduated 2010).
• Radomir Vavra, project "Fast Rendering Algorithms for Volumetric Data on a GPU" (graduated 2010).
• Ondrej Linda, project "Parametric Model of MPII Building" (graduated 2010, Dean's award).
• Lukas Krivsky, project "Ray tracing on a CELL processor" (graduated 2010).
• Tomas Vanat, project "Ultrasonic Tracking System" (graduated February 2009).
• Martin Zlatuska, project "Fast Ray tracing on a GPU" (graduated 2009, Dean's award).
• Jiri Drahokoupil, project "Predictive rendering of the MPII building", (graduated 2009, Dean's award).
• Jan Novak, project "Global Illumination Methods on a GPU with CUDA", (graduated 2009, Dean's award and winner of ACM CZ/ACM SK Student Research Competition 2009).
• Michal Hapala, project "Data structures for ray tracing on configurable hardware" (graduated 2009, first place at IBM Student Competition).
• Jakub Gabzdil, project "Navigation system for scene investigation" (graduated 2009).
• Lukas Korba, project "Driving Car Simulation" (graduated 2008, Dean's award).
• Robert Herzog, project "Advanced Density Estimation Techniques for Global Illumination" (graduated 2006, supervision in Saarbruecken, Germany).
• Alexander Efremov, project "Efficient Ray Tracing of Trimmed NURBS Surfaces", (graduated 2005, supervision in Saarbruecken, Germany).
• Michal Kracik, project "Realtime algorithms for Terrain Rendering" (graduated 2001).
• Jaroslav Krivanek, project "Modern Algorithms for Global Illumination" (graduated 2001, Dean's award). Passed away December 1st, 2019
• Vladimir Nadvornik, project "Ray-Object Intersection Algorithms for Rendering System GOLEM", (graduated 2000).
• Petr Mladek, project "Texturing and Mapping Algorithms for Image Synthesis" (graduated 1999).
• Michal Masa, project "VRML'97 parser in C++" (graduated 1999).
• Vit Martinek, project "A library of 3D scenes", in Czech, (graduated 1999)
• Libor Dachs, project "Visualization of Spatial Data Structures" (graduated 1999), co-supervision with Jiri Zara.
• Filip Sixta, project "Non-Uniform Grids for Ray Tracing" (graduated 1998).
• Radek Vondracek, project "Fast Rendering Algorithms based on Ray Tracing, in Czech (graduated 1997).

Bachelor students (former):

• Lukas Cezner, project "BRDF surface reflectance using LIGHTEC Minidiff V2 for Game Engines" (graduated 2023).
• Petr Cipra, project "Photogallery with webpages generator" (graduated 2022).
• Tomas Nikodym, project "Ray tracing algorithm for interactive applications" (graduated 2010).
• Petr Kukral, project "Fast Ray-Triangle Intersection Algorithms" (graduated 2010).
• Ondrej Jamriska, project "Interactive Ray Tracing of Distance Fields", (graduated 2009, the paper derived from the thesis got the the best paper award at CESCG 2010 student conference).