Projects

Cardiac surgery simulation

My PhD thesis is from 2006 at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University. The full thesis can be downloaded as pdf The human heart has a very complex morphology, and combined with a congenital heart defect it becomes a challenge to understand the spatial arrangement in full. Pediatric cardiac surgeons must have a very good understanding of […]

Lego Digital Designer

We researched and implemented a range of advanced rendering effects in collaboration with LEGO. On concrete result of the investigation is the Screen Space Directional Occlusion implemented in Lego Digital Designer. Both ambient-occlusion and color bleeding are difficult to achieve in interactive products such as LEGO Digital Designer. They are simply too advanced and therefore […]

Digital Prototypes

The purpose of the project was to develop digital prototypes that can reproduce the appearance of products still on the drawing board using predictive rendering. Predictive rendering is objective – ie. radiometrically and physically correct – and can predict how products will look, based on geometry and material composition. Actual predictive rendering is not available […]

Elementacular

We developed the Elementacular plugin for fast and interactive modelling of photorealistic clouds within Autodesk Maya – available as a plugin from www.elementacular.com. Duration: 2014 Role: Supervising, managing software development, responsible for investment.

Experior DirectX 11 graphics engine

We developed a brand new DirectX11 based visualization engine for Xcelgo, and their virtual commissioning software Experior. More information on our blog post on the topic. Duration: 2014 Role: Supervising and sparring with the lead developer.

Recognition of Birds

In a research contract with the Institute for Bioscience, University of Aarhus we developed image analysis and machine learning to recognize birds in very large scale auto-photos from airplanes. I supervised the overall development and communication with our partners at Bioscience. 2014.

Research for LEGO

Confidential research for LEGO since March 2014. I’m leading three researcher at the Alexandra institute in this project. Hopefully the public can see our results in 2018.

Montana Ambient Occlusion

I developed an ambient occlusion solution in three.js and GLSL, and supervised the development of an iOS port. The rendering was used by Apptitude for their Montana iOS app. Duration: 2014 Role: Software developer, supervisor.

Visual Communication

Following our success in the Elements project, we wanted to innovate the process involved in communicating special effects in the animation and movie industry. We build prototypes in both Adobe After Effects and Autodesk Maya. I lead the research and participated as a supervisor for the software development. Funded by the Shareplay foundation in cooperation […]

Neuroreader

In a commercial contract with the company Brainreader we have accelerate computations in the Neuroreader software, and help mature and extend the functionality. I participated as supervisor for our activities at the Alexandra Institute. 2013-2015

Procedural cell plugin for Maya

I supervised the work on procedural generation of cells in Autodesk Maya for the Danish Animation company Mediafarm. 2013

Elements

I participated as a research lead in our project developing procedural models for natural effects that can be controlled by an artist in Autodesk Maya. The results from this project later initiated the comercial plug-in Elementacular. This project was funded by the Shareplay foundation. 2013

Autodesk research

I participated as a contract researcher for Autodesk on a confidential project. 2013.

Analytical soft shadows for Playdead INSIDE

For the game INSIDE by PlayDead I supervised experienced computer graphics engineers at the Alexandra Institute developing a new analytical soft shadow solution for the main character in the game. 2013

WebGL for Sportstiming

Under my supervision we developed a new kind of WebGL visualization for the company Sportstiming.

Visible Ear Simulator

The Oticon Foundation and Medel have sponsored the project surgical simulation for the hearing aid industry. 2012-2014

Interactive Molecular Visualization

“Interactive Molecular Visualization”, funded by The AnimationHub. Total budget of 1.5 mill DKK (500k DKK funded by application). 2011-2012

Cabra Technology

“Software product for Cabra Technology”, consultancy and software development. 2011-2012

Accelerating Graphics Performance for Quantumwise

“Graphics Performance Acceleration for Quantumwise”, consultancy and software development. 2011-2012

Massive Data

Project Manager, co-applicant and active in R&D, funded by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, total budget of 11.7 mill DKK (8.1 mill DKK funded by application). Massive Data – Processing, visualization, and interpretation. 2010-2012

Acceleration Structures for Luxion

In the Massive Acceleration of Photorealistic Interactive Rendering project I was Project Manager, Applicant and active in R&D, with Luxion, funded by iKraft, total budget of 2 mill DKK ( 1 mill funded by application). 2010-2012

Shaders in Unity

“Shaders in Unity3D”, consultancy and software development for Unity Studios, Denmark (100.000 DKK). 2010

Furniture Rendering

“High quality rendering of soft shadows and materials in furniture”, consultancy and software development for Intertisement, Denmark (100.000 DKK). 2010

Lego Universe

Icon rendering and geometry optimization for Lego Universe. Consultancy and software development for Lego Systems A/S, Denmark. 2010

Mitraclip Simulation

I implemented a custom soft-tissue physics engine for the MitraClip trainer, under contract with Morphologica, MGHI, Hong Kong. Project Period: 2009-2010. Role: Software developer, project lead.  

Visual Interaction in Wind-turbine Repair

Visual Interaction in Wind-turbine Repair. Co-applicant and primary writer, Funded by the ISIS II, total budget of 3.2 mill DKK. (1.6 mill DKK funded by application). 2008

Innogate

“Innogate – Innovation is the game”, on serious games applications. I was in the management group and active in R&D, total budget of 9.6 mill kr.   2008-2010

Digital Urban Living

“Center for Digital Urban Living”, in management group, project-manager, and active in R&D, total budget 43.5 mill DKK, responsible for a budget of 2.2 mill DKK. 2008-2011

Lingoland

“Lingoland”, lead-programmer responsible for three part time student programmers. 2003-2004

Danfoss Virtual House

I co-wrote the application and was in the management group for this project on finding new ways to communicate convenience and comfort for Danfoss product with the help of serious games techniques. The project was funded by CKO, and executed during. 2010-2011.

Digital Painting

As a subcontract with Redia A/S we devised and implemented a fully digital painting in collaboration with an artist. 2011-2012.

Futuresonic

In the Futuresonic project we develop the future ultrasound devices, that are wireless and delivers functionality as a service. I co-wrote the application, I am on the steering board, and I lead the research on acceleration and cloud computing of ultrasound algorithms.

Elements Texture Synthesis

Together with the Animation company Red Eye we did procedural texture synthesis for rocks. We did a prototype in Autodesk Maya exposing the functionality through a node.

Build-A-Bar

The Build-A-Bar project was done for the company Torstein Drikkeservice. The company wanted to build a web-based wizard for sales of bar equipment, including an interactive 3D visualization of configurations.

AR and VR for Industry

We help Danish manufacturing companies exploit the great potential of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) for digital training and instruction. Advanced products and the associated manufacturing require efficient training and instruction of the end customers, production workers and service personel to avoid errors, increase efficiency and provide better customer satisfaction. A large proportion […]

Gadgetron

My team at the Alexandra Institute is hired in by NIH to participate in the open source development of the Gadgetron image reconstruction framework. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has a medical imaging research program, which encompasses acquisition, reconstruction, post-processing, and clinical application of X-ray, CT, and MRI. As part of this […]

Deep Learning based detection of fields in satellite images

Analyzing satellite images and comparing them to the known outlines of danish agricultural fields allows us to efficiently calculate the outline of fields in countries that do not digitally record outlines. We use Deep Learning, specifically GANs in TensorFlow to enable this learning on a huge dataset of Denmark. The company Ceptu offers an app […]

Digital BIM Tool for Fire Protection

We develop digital tools and expert systems that offer architects and engineers state-of-the-art decision support for ensuring compliance with fire requirements for residential, commercial and public construction based on Building Information Modelling (BIM). The project includes three steps Digital tool with prescriptive rules and technical regulations. The prescriptive rules and other technical regulations for fire protection […]

Femern SafetyLab

A consortium with DBI in command will develop technological services for security technology, emergency optimization and risk management with special focus on fire risks. The purpose is to provide Danish companies with new opportunities to test and demonstrate security technologies virtually for complex and critical buildings and infrastructure to save time, money and resources. The […]

Very Efficient Resource Allocation

Very Efficient Resource Allocation, in short VERA, is a web service I developed that is now used across all labs at the Alexandra Institute. The tool enables planning of projects ressource, budgets,, allocation of personel, and retrieval of Key Performance Indicators. VERA was written in Javascript and PhP. The initial version was released in 2011, and […]

KeyShot 7.2

KeyShot 7.2 was released on 25th of January following my first few months of introducing the developers at Luxion to agile development and product management.  

KeyShot 7.3

KeyShot 7.3 was launched on the 5th of April 2018 introducing the new free viewer application developed as part of our strategy to transition KeyShot into a hub instead of an end station for rendering images. Now users can configure variations of models, materials and environments – and share with their partners and collaborators.

KeyShot 8.0

KeyShot 8.0 was the first major release of KeyShot under my leadership of development. The full fruite of our focus in product management and agile development was realized as KeyShot was release on time – a date set a full year before as I was hired. KeyShot was released on 2nd of October 2018.

KeyVR

On 6th of May 2019, after 1½ years of development, Luxion launched an entirely new product; KeyVR the one-click VR solution directly from KeyShot into interactive VR. The opportunity to develop a commercial software product from scratch was one of the primary reasons I joined Luxion in 2017. I functioned as lead developer together with […]