Fourteen PhD students from European universities and industry partners have completed the PRIME project – a four-year initiative to train a new generation of experts in predictive rendering, one of the most demanding research areas in visual computing.
DTU proudly hosted four of the PhD students in the project – two employed at DTU (Thomson TG and Bojja Venu) and two as Industrial PhDs at DTU and the Danish company KeyShot (Arthur Firmino and Henrik Philippi).
“Participation in the PRIME project was a rewarding experience. We enjoyed the collaboration with the partners in the project and valued how the project has extended our research network in the area of predictive rendering and appearance modelling. The good work of the early stage researchers in the project was exciting to follow and partially supervise,” says Associate Professor Jeppe Revall Frisvad, PRIME supervisor from DTU Compute.
"Positive impact on my career"
Reflecting on his own PhD journey, Arthur Firmino adds:
“Being a part of the PRIME project gave me the valuable opportunity to take part in workshops and network with rendering professionals, from both industry and academia, which has had a tremendously positive impact on my career. More importantly it also meant sharing my PhD journey with 13 other students, who were also passionate about rendering, which was especially motivating.”
From October 2020 to August 2025, under the leadership of Charles University in Czechia), PRIME fellows were hosted by top European institutions. Besides DTU, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), University College London (UCL) and Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, Linköping University (LIU) from Sweden, and University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR).
Moreover, two PhD students were hosted by a Danish company, KeyShot, whose main product is a 3D rendering program designed to create photorealistic images of 3D models quickly and easily.
