Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence
  


I am a Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, where I lead the Natural Phenomena Modeling Group. Prior to joining the faculty here, I received my PhD from the University of Calgary and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Research Interests
  • Generative AI and Synthetic Data
  • Computational Modeling of Natural Phenomena
  • Vision AI for Natural Phenomena
  • Developmental Biology of Plants
Teaching


Publications

A. Kokosza, H. Wrede, D. G. Esparza, M. Makowski, D. Liu, D. L. Michels, S. Pirk, W. Palubicki, Scintilla: Simulating Combustible Vegetation for Wildfires, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2024), Vol. 43, No. 4, Article 70
[Preprint], [Website]
B. Li, N. A. Schwarz, W. Palubicki, S. Pirk, B. Benes, Interactive Invigoration: Volumetric Modeling of Trees with Strands, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2024), Vol. 43, No. 4, Article 146
[Preprint], [Website]
J. A. Amador Herrera, J. Klein, D. Liu, W. Palubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, Cyclogenesis: Simulating Hurricanes and Tornadoes, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2024), Vol. 43, No. 4, Article 71
[Preprint], [Website]
M. Cieslak, U. Govindarajan, A. Garcia, A. Chandrashekar, T. Hadrich, A. Mendoza-Drosik, D. Michels, S. Pirk, C.-C. Fu, W. Palubicki, Generating Diverse Agricultural Data for Vision-Based Farming Applications, 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW).
[Website], [Paper],
J. Kaluzny, Y. Schreckenberg, K. Cyganik, P. Annighöfer, S. Pirk, D. Michels, M. Cieslak, F. Assaad, B. Benes, W. Palubicki, LAESI: Leaf Area Estimation with Synthetic Imagery, 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW).
[Website], [Paper],
M. Na, J. Klein, B. Zhang, W. Palubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, A Lennard-Jones Layer for Distribution Normalization, under submission, 2024
[Preprint], [ArXiv]
J. Deng, S. Marri, J. Klein, W. Palubicki, S. Pirk, G. Chowdhary, D. L. Michels, Gazebo Plants: Simulating Plant-Robot Interaction with Cosserat Rods, under submission, 2024
[Preprint], [ArXiv], [Video]
C. Su, A. Kokosza, X. Xie, A. Pencík, Y. Zhang, P. Raumonen, X. Shi, S. Muranen, M. Kucukoglu Topcu, J. Immanen, R. Hagqvist, O. Safronov, J. Alonso-Serra, G. Eswaran, M. Pavicic Venegas, K. Ljung, S. Ward, A. P. Mähönen, K. Himanen, J. Salojärvi, A. R. Fernie, O. Novák, O. Leyser, W. Palubicki, Y. Helariutta, K. Nieminen, Tree architecture: A strigolactone-deficient mutant reveals a connection between branching order and auxin gradient along the tree stem, PNAS, 2023 Nov 28;120(48):e2308587120.
[Website], [Paper],
F. Maggioli, J. Klein, T. Hädrich, E. Rodolà, W. Palubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, A Physically-inspired Approach to the Simulation of Plant Wilting, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2023
[Website], [Preprint], [Video]
B. Li, J. Klein, D. L. Michels, B. Benes, S. Pirk, W. Pałubicki, Rhizomorph: The Coordinated Function of Shoots and Roots, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2023
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Bibtex]
N. Kalbfuß, A. Strohmayr, M. Kegel, L. Le, F. Grosseholz, B. Brunschweiger, K. Stöckl, C. Wiese, C. Franke, C. Schiestl, S. Prem, S. Sha, K. Franz-Oberdorf, J. Hafermann, M. Thiemé, E. Facher, W. Palubicki, C. Bolle, F. F. Assaad, A Role for Brassinosteroid Signaling in Decision-Making Processes, PLOS Genetics, 2024
[Website], [Paper],
J. Klein, R. E. Waller, S. Pirk, W. Pałubicki, M. Tester, and D. L. Michels, Synthetic Data at Scale: A Paradigm to Efficiently Leverage Machine Learning in Agriculture, under submission, 2023
[Website]
W. Pałubicki, M. Makowski, W. Gajda, T. Hädrich, D. L. Michels, S. Pirk, Ecoclimates: Climate-Response Modeling of Vegetation, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2022
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Bibtex]
W. Raateland, T. Hädrich, J. A. Herrera, D. Banuti, W. Pałubicki, S. Pirk, K. Hildebrandt, D. L. Michels DCGrid: An Adaptive Grid Structure for Memory-Constrained Fluid Simulation on the GPU, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2022
[Website], [Preprint], [DOI], [Supplementary Material], [Code], [Video], [Bibtex]
H. Shao, T. Kugelstadt, T. Hädrich, W. Pałubicki, J. Bender, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, Accurately Solving Rod Dynamics with Graph Learning, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
[Website], [Preprint], [ArXiv], [Supplementary Material], [Video], [Bibtex]
J. A. Amador Herrera, T. Hädrich, W. Pałubicki, D. T. Banuti, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, Weatherscapes: Nowcasting Heat Transfer and Water Continuity, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2021
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Technical Papers Trailer], [Bibtex]
B. Li, J. Kałużny, J. Klein, D.L. Michels, W. Pałubicki, B. Benes, S. Pirk, Learning to Reconstruct Botanical Trees from Single Images, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2021
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Technical Papers Trailer], [Bibtex]
T. Hädrich, D. T. Banuti, W. Pałubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, Fire in Paradise: Mesoscale Simulation of Wildfires, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2021
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Talk], [Two Minute Papers], [Gallery of Fluid Motion], [Bibtex]
T. Hädrich, M. Makowski, W. Pałubicki, D. T. Banuti, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, Stormscapes: Simulating Cloud Dynamics in the Now, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Talk], [Technical Papers Trailer], [Bibtex]
T. Hädrich, J. Scheffczyk, W. Pałubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, Interactive Wood Fracture,
Eurographics / ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation - Posters, 2020
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Bibtex]
M. Makowski, T. Hädrich, J. Scheffczyk, D. L. Michels, S. Pirk, W. Pałubicki, Synthetic Silviculture: Multi-scale Modeling of Plant Ecosystems, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2019
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Technical Papers Trailer], [Two Minute Papers], [Bibtex]
Wojtek Palubicki, Andrzej Kokosza, Agata Burian Formal description of plant morphogenesis, Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 70, Issue 14, 1 July 2019, Pages 3601–3613
[PDF], [Website]
S. Pirk, M. Jarząbek, T. Hädrich, D. L. Michels, W. Palubicki, Interactive Wood Combustion for Botanical Tree Models, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2017
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Technical Papers Trailer], [Two Minute Papers], [Bibtex]
Y. Coudert, W. Palubicki, K. Ljung, O. Novak, O. Leyser, C. J. Harrison, Three ancient hormonal cues co-ordinate shoot branching in a moss, Elife, 2015 Mar 25;4:e06808
[Website], [Paper],
Wojciech Palubicki, Kipp Horel, Steven Longay, Adam Runions, Brendan Lane, Radomír Mech, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz Self-organizing tree models for image synthesis, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2009, Volume 28, Issue 3, Article No.: 58, pp 1–10
[PDF], [Website]




Personal

2015 – Current Assistant Professor for Computer Science, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
2012 – 2015 Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
2008 – 2012 PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada
2007 – 2008 Software Developer for Vizrt Austria GmbH, Schwaz, Austria
2013 PhD in Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.
2007 Diploma of Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland