Welcome to the Institute of Computer Science

Linus Franke specializes in image-generating and image-processing computer science and conducts research on the next generation of physically grounded, efficient, and learnable representations of the real world. His research combines classical rendering and simulation techniques with modern machine learning methods to generate digital scenes that are not only visually believable but also physically plausible and interactive. In addition, he focuses on the digital capture and reconstruction of real-world environments from multimodal sensor data, with the goal of making them experiential as living, simulatable worlds in technologies such as virtual and augmented reality.

Linus Franke studied computer science at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2025 under the supervision of Marc Stamminger with a thesis titled “Neural Point-Based Rendering for Immersive Novel View Synthesis.” Before joining the University of Würzburg, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Inria Sophia-Antipolis in France.

At JMU, Linus Franke will be teaching courses in computer graphics and image-based machine learning.