Computer Graphics
TU Braunschweig

Dr.-Ing. Susana Castillo
Senior Researcher

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The research work of Susana Castillo to date has focused on working toward a tighter integration of psychology in general into computer science.
In 2009, she started working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Diego Gutierrez as a Junior Researcher with the Graphics and Imaging Lab at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). In 2011, she received her Computer Engineering degree and continued performing research on perceptually as well as automatically assessing the quality of different image and video manipulation techniques. In 2013, she began working with the Department for Graphical Systems at the
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany), where she got her PhD in Computer Science. Her thesis focused on mathematically specifying the spatio-temporal information present in real, dynamic facial expressions and then empirically determining the semantic meaning and perceptual importance of that information. The result is a detailed model of the human perception of facial expressions as well as more efficient and more effective facial animations. In 2019, she joined our lab as a post-doc where she is currently working as Akademische Rätin. In July 2020, she became an elected member of the Junge Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft,  and in October 2024 she was admitted to the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD as voting member.


Publications BibTex



Sascha Fricke, Reinhard Caspary, Susana Castillo, Martin Eisemann, Marcus Magnor:
Modern Hardware Accelerated Point Based Holography
in OSA Optics Express, vol. 32, no. 15, Optica Publishing Group, pp. 26994-27009, July 2024.

Moritz Kappel, Florian Hahlbohm, Timon Scholz, Susana Castillo, Christian Theobalt, Martin Eisemann, Vladislav Golyanik, Marcus Magnor:
D-NPC: Dynamic Neural Point Clouds for Non-Rigid View Synthesis from Monocular Video
arXiv preprint, pp. 1-16, June 2024.

Florian Hahlbohm, Linus Franke , Moritz Kappel, Susana Castillo, Marc Stamminger, Marcus Magnor:
INPC: Implicit Neural Point Clouds for Radiance Field Rendering
arXiv preprint, March 2024.



Marc Kassubeck, Moritz Kappel, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
N-SfC: Robust and Fast Shape Estimation from Caustic Images
in Proc. Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), The Eurographics Association, pp. 33-41, September 2023.



Markus Wedekind, Darvin Mertsch, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Geometry Calibration Correction for Truncated Detector CT
in e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing (eJNDT), vol. 28, no. 3, NDT.net, February 2023.
iCT Special Issue

Colin Groth, Sascha Fricke, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Wavelet-Based Fast Decoding of 360° Videos
in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, Proc. IEEE VR), IEEE , pp. 1-9, February 2023.

Markus Wedekind, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Feature-Sensitive Ring Artifact Correction for Computed Tomography
in Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation (JONE), vol. 42, no. 5, Springer, pp. 1-9, December 2022.

Moritz Kappel, Vladislav Golyanik, Susana Castillo, Christian Theobalt, Marcus Magnor:
Fast Non-Rigid Radiance Fields from Monocularized Data
arXiv preprint, to appear.
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01368

Leslie Wöhler, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Personality Analysis of Face Swaps: Can They be Used as Avatars?
in ACM Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, no. 14, ACM, pp. 1-8, September 2022.

Sascha Fricke, Reinhard Caspary, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
GPU-Accelerated Point-Based Holograms
in Frontiers in Optics + Laser Sciences, Optica Publishing Group, August 2022.
pages: JW4B.53

Sascha Fricke, Reinhard Caspary, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Adaptive Gaussian Points for Faster and Better Computer-Generated Holograms
in Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging, Optica Publishing Group, pp. W3A.4 ff., August 2022.

Leslie Wöhler, Moritz von Estorff, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Automatic Generation of Customized AOIs and Evaluation of Observers' Gaze in Portrait Videos
in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction , vol. 6, no. ETRA, ACM, pp. 144:1-144:14, May 2022.

Colin Groth, Jan-Philipp Tauscher, Nikkel Heesen, Max Hattenbach, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Omnidirectional Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation in Virtual Reality
in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, Proc. IEEE VR), vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 2234-2244, March 2022.
Won "Honorable Mention for Best Journal Track Paper" at IEEE VR

Marc Kassubeck, Moritz Kappel, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
N-SfC: Robust and Fast Shape Estimation from Caustic Images
arXiv preprint, December 2021.
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06705

Markus Wedekind, Eric Oertel, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Reducing Stair Artifacts in CT Reconstruction
in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE, pp. 3492-3496, September 2021.

Jan-Philipp Tauscher, Susana Castillo, Sebastian Bosse, Marcus Magnor:
EEG-based Analysis of the Impact of Familiarity in the Perception of Deepfake Videos
in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE, pp. 160-164, September 2021.

Marcus Magnor, Susana Castillo, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Eds.):
Real VR - special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 41, no. 4, IEEE, August 2021.


Leslie Wöhler, Martin Zembaty, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Towards Understanding Perceptual Differences between Genuine and Face-Swapped Videos
in Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), no. 240, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-13, May 2021.


Colin Groth, Jan-Philipp Tauscher, Nikkel Heesen, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Visual Techniques to Reduce Cybersickness in Virtual Reality
in Proc. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), IEEE, pp. 486-487, March 2021.

Colin Groth, Jan-Philipp Tauscher, Nikkel Heesen, Steve Grogorick, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Mitigation of Cybersickness in Immersive 360° Videos
in IEEE Virtual Reality Workshop on Immersive Sickness Prevention (WISP), IEEE, pp. 169-177, March 2021.


Alexander Waszynski, Janina Bahnemann, Susana Castillo, Philipp Klahn, Philipp Otto, Marlin Ulmer:
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Big Data in der Forschung - Aktuelle Perspektiven
in Gesellschaft, Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche (Eds.): Jahrbuch Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Cuvillier, ISBN 978-3-7369-7423-4, pp. 127-131, January 2021.

Colin Groth, Jan-Philipp Tauscher, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Altering the Conveyed Facial Emotion Through Automatic Reenactment of Video Portraits
in Proc. International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), vol. 1300, Springer, Cham, pp. 128-135, November 2020.

Leslie Wöhler, Jann-Ole Henningson, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
PEFS: A Validated Dataset for Perceptual Experiments on Face Swap Portrait Videos
in Proc. International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), vol. 1300, Springer, Cham, pp. 120-127, November 2020.

Moritz Mühlhausen, Moritz Kappel, Marc Kassubeck, Paul Maximilian Bittner, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Temporal Consistent Motion Parallax for Omnidirectional Stereo Panorama Video
in ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), no. 21, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-9, November 2020.


Jan-Philipp Tauscher, Alexandra Witt, Sebastian Bosse, Fabian Wolf Schottky, Steve Grogorick, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Exploring Neural and Peripheral Physiological Correlates of Simulator Sickness
in Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, vol. 31, no. 4-5, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. e1953 ff., August 2020.
electronic ISSN: 1546-427X


Thiemo Alldieck, Moritz Kappel, Susana Castillo, Marcus Magnor:
Reconstructing 3D Human Avatars from Monocular Images
in Magnor M., Sorkine-Hornung A. (Eds.): Real VR – Immersive Digital Reality: How to Import the Real World into Head-Mounted Immersive Displays, Springer International Publishing, Cham, ISBN 978-3-030-41816-8, pp. 188-218, March 2020.

Philipp Hahn, Susana Castillo, Douglas Cunningham:
Fitting the Style: The Semantic Space for Emotions on Stylized Faces
in ACM Proc. International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), ACM, pp. 21-24, July 2019.

Susana Castillo, Philipp Hahn, Katharina Legde, Douglas Cunningham:
Personality Analysis of Embodied Conversational Agents
in ACM Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, ACM, pp. 227-232, November 2018.

Philipp Hahn, Susana Castillo, Douglas Cunningham:
Look Me in the Lines: The Impact of Stylization on the Recognition of Expressions and Perceived Personality
in ACM Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp. 339-340, November 2018.

Martin Schorradt, Susana Castillo, Douglas Cunningham:
The Semantic Space for Emotional Speech and the Influence of Different Methods for Prosody Isolation on Its Perception
in ACM Trans. on Applied Perception (Proc. of Symposium on Applied Perception), ACM, pp. 1-8, August 2018.

Susana Castillo, Douglas Cunningham, Christian Winger, Michael Breuß:
Morphological Amoeba-based Patches for Exemplar-Based Inpainting
in Journal of WSCG, vol. 26, no. 2, Vaclav Skala - Union Agency , pp. 112-121, June 2018.

Katharina Legde, Susana Castillo, Douglas Cunningham:
AgeRegression: Rejuvenating 3D-Facial Scans
in WSCG Short Communications Proceedings, pp. 190-199, May 2018.

Susana Castillo, Katharina Legde, Douglas Cunningham:
The Semantic Space for Motion‐Captured Facial Expressions
in Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, vol. 29, no. 3-4, John Wiley & Sons, pp. e1823 ff., May 2018.

Martin Schorradt, Katharina Legde, Susana Castillo, Douglas Cunningham:
Integration and Evaluation of Emotion in an Articulatory Speech Synthesis System
in ACM Trans. on Applied Perception (Proc. of Symposium on Applied Perception), ACM, pp. 137 ff., September 2015.

Katharina Legde, Susana Castillo, Douglas Cunningham:
Multimodal Affect: Perceptually Evaluating an Affective Talking Head
in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, vol. 12, no. 4, ACM, pp. 1-17, September 2015.

Susana Castillo, Christian Wallraven, Douglas Cunningham:
The Semantic Space for Facial Communication
in Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, vol. 25, no. 3-4, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 223-231, May 2014.

Susana Castillo, Tilke Judd, Diego Gutierrez:
Using Eye-Tracking to Assess Different Image Retargeting Methods
in Proc. ACM Applied Perception in Computer Graphics and Visualization (APGV), ACM, pp. 7-14, August 2011.

Fernando Navarro, Susana Castillo, Francisco José Serón Arbeloa, Diego Gutierrez:
Perceptual Considerations for Motion Blur Rendering
in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, vol. 8, no. 3, ACM, pp. 1-15, August 2011.