Thomas Engelhardt

Thomas Engelhardt is a Researcher and PhD student at the Computer Graphics Group of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. His work focuses on real-time rendering techniques, including global illumination, participating media, and visibility culling.

Research Interests:

• Interactive 3D graphics
• High-quality lighting simulation
• GPU-based rendering algorithms
• Occlusion culling and visibility optimization
• Participating media rendering
• Environment mapping techniques

Publications demonstrate expertise in virtual point lights, epipolar sampling, hierarchical buffers, and scalable final gathering for global illumination.