PostDisaster
We are working with experts to create tools that can help them in efficiently analyze and plan after disastrous events (floods, earthquakes). I am developing an image-based large scale fast reconstruction method.
Hello
I’m currently working as postdoctoral researcher in the Virtual and Augmented Reality Group at TU Wien led by Prof. Hannes Kaufmann. I defended my PhD on Proximity-Based Point Cloud Reconstruction, in February 2025 as part of the Rendering and Modeling Group at TU Wien, under Prof. Michael Wimmer’s and Dr. Stefan Ohrhallinger’s supervision. I am currently investigating how we reconstruct, interpret, and interact with unstructured data by combining geometry, topology and human perception, with application to various fields such as clustering, segmentation and procedural generation.
Projects
RE:STOCK INDUSTRY
We are developing tools that enable the analysis of industrial buildings for possible vertical reuse. I am working on the extraction of structural elements from 3D scans to enable finite element analysis.
Modeling the World at Scale
I developed methods to improve point cloud reconstruction through improved proximity definitions applied to various settings.
Publications
Pole-Arina: A Privacy-Preserving Dataset and Benchmark for Static Pole Tricks
Diana Marin, Katharina Scheucher, Peter Kán
Projection-Based Structural Element Extraction from Point Clouds
Diana Marin, Julia Reisinger, Peter Kán, Hannes Kaufmann
Scan2Beams: Moving Towards Automated Modelling and Analysis of Structural Industrial Building Stock
Julia Reisinger, Diana Marin, Philipp Rufinatscha, Peter Kán
SING: Stability-Incorporated Neighborhood Graph
Diana Marin, Amal Dev Parakkat, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael Wimmer, Steve Oudot, and Pooran Memari
Reconstructing Curves from Sparse Samples on Riemannian Manifolds
Diana Marin, Filippo Maggioli, Simone Melzi, Stefan Ohrhallinger and Michael Wimmer
Distributed Surface Reconstruction
Diana Marin, Patrick Komon, Stefan Ohrhallinger and Michael Wimmer
SIGnificant Outlier Removal
Diana Marin, Filip Ilic, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael Wimmer
Parameter-Free Connectivity for Point Clouds
Diana Marin, Stefan Ohrhallinger and Michael Wimmer
Visualizing Group Structure in Compound Graphs: the Current State, Lessons Learned, and Outstanding Opportunities
Henry Ehlers, Diana Marin, Hsiang-Yun Wu and Renata Raidou
Parameter-Free and Improved Connectivity for Point Clouds
Diana Marin, Stefan Ohrhallinger and Michael Wimmer
SIGDT: 2D Curve Reconstruction
Diana Marin, Stefan Ohrhallinger and Michael Wimmer
SIG-based Curve Reconstruction
Diana Marin, Stefan Ohrhallinger and Michael Wimmer
Organisational Duties
- IPC Member and Organizer of Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics (CESCG) since 2022
- IPC member for 3DV 2026, ICVR 2026
- Reviewer for Eurographics, XR Salento, 3DV, VMV, CAGD, GD, CESCG
- Global Game Jam organizer since 2018 + Game Jam Plus 2023 organizer; Check-out some of the games developed over the years at our hub in 2026, 2025, 2023, 2022.
Work Experience
- Project Assistant @ TU Wien, September 2021 - Present
- Visiting Researcher @ École Polytechnique Paris, February-April 2024
- Research Assistant @ University of Leeds, March-September 2020
- Summer Research Intern @ University of Leeds, June-September 2019
- Co-Founder and Software Engineer @ MD Lab Games, 2015-2021
Teaching
- Programming Techniques for Visual Computing @ TU Wien, 2022-2025.
I guide students to develop a game from scratch in OpenGL or Vulkan, gaining experience in hands-on implementation of visual effects. You can check out some of my students' games here and here.
- Computer Graphics @ University of Leeds, 2020 - Teaching Assistant.
I assisted students with personal tutorials to help them better understand graphics concepts, and I marked part of the coursework.
Awards
- My student, Ole Siemers, was awarded the Best Paper Award at CESCG 2026
- Selected as WiGRAPH Rising Star 2025
- Received the KUWI Study Abroad Grant (1500 EUR) for my star at Ecole Polytechnique
- Got the Doktorandinnen der Informatik ans Rednerpult 2022-2024 (1000 EUR each year) to present accepted work at a conference
- Cook Prize 2021 - awarded to the student from the School of Computing who achieves the best performance in the master’s year.
- Hutchinson Prize 2019 - awarded to the student from the School of Computing achieving the best performance in the second year.
- Faculty of Engineering’s Dean’s List 2018 and 2019 - awarded to top 5% of first and second year students in the Faculty of Engineering.
- Four-time recipient of the Dean of Engineering Scholarship - awarded to students achieving A*AA at A-level or equivalent and maintaining an average above 60% in each year.
- First Place - FinTech Hackathon, University of Leeds Hackathon and Leeds Hackathon (2018, 2019).
- Gold Medal Infomatrix National and International Level, Romania.