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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

August 31, 2006

Center for Visual

Computing

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

What we do… Computer graphics Medical, biological, financial, scientific

visualization Computer vision, image processing Computer-aided modeling and design Multimedia, user interfaces Virtual reality, wearable / wireless

computing Medical imaging Computional neuroscience

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Who we are…

Arie Kaufman, Director Hong Qin Klaus Mueller Dimitris Samaras David Gu Alex Vasilescu Several members from

outside CS department

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Arie Kaufman

3D medical imaging visualization surgery, virtual colonoscopy

Volumetric modeling voxelization, amorphous phenomena

Volume sculpting with haptics Volumetric manipulation, animation,

simulation Volume rendering algorithms / systems Modeling of amorphous phenomena

fire, smoke, melting, homeland security applications Visual analytics Courses: CSE 648, Seminar in Computer

Graphics

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Arie Kaufman

3D medical imaging visualization surgery, virtual colonoscopy

Volumetric modeling voxelization, amorphous phenomena

Volume sculpting with haptics Volumetric manipulation, animation,

simulation Volume rendering algorithms / systems Modeling of amorphous phenomena

fire, smoke, melting, homeland security applications Visual analytics Courses: CSE 648, Seminar in Computer

Graphics

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Example: Virtual Colonoscopy

Fast volume rendering, automatic segmentation, and specialized user interface

Accurate electronic cleansing, electronic biopsy Non-invasive, inexpensive, comfortable, fast Goal: mass screening for colon cancer

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Hong Qin Physics-based modeling and simulation Methodology:

integration of geometry and physics unifying modeling, design, analysis, and manufacturing

Courses CSE 530: Geometric foundations for graphics and

visualization (Spring) CSE 621: Physics-based modeling for visual

computing CSE 655: Seminar on modeling and simulation

(every semester) CSE 680: Special topics on modeling and

simulation

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

On-Going Research Projects Dynamic NURBS theory and applications DYNASOAR: DYNAmicSolid Objects of Arbitrarytopology (a.k.a. Virtual Clay) Intelligent Balloon

(subdivision surfaces for unknown topology) PDE surfaces and solids, implict functions Haptics-based interface and VR Multiresolution analysis, wavelets

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Klaus Mueller

Computer Graphics: volume graphics, textures

Visualization: scientific, medical, information

Medical Imaging: tomography, reconstruction

Visual Analytics: visual data mining / analysis

Face Recognition face dynamics, biometrics

Graphics hardware computing (GP-GPU)

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Example: Detail Modeling

Infinite zooms by texture synthesis of detail

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Example: Urban Modeling

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Teaching (Graduate)

CSE 564 Visualization (Spring 2007) CSE 594 Visual Analytics (Spring 2007) CSE 648 Volume Graphics Seminar (all

sems.)

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Dimitris Samaras

Deformable models for: Computer vision, computer

graphics, medical image analysis

Illumination modeling: extraction of illumination

parameters and surface reflectance characteristics from images

for object recognition, image-based rendering and augmented reality

Face and human body tracking and modeling

application: expression transfer

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Example: expression transfer

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Graduate students wanted

Hot computional neuroscience project:

Machine learning methods for feature learning and pattern recognition in functional MRI

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

David Gu

Computational conformal geometry Structure of general surfaces

Geometric modeling Manifold Splines

Global parameterizations Medical Imaging

Brain mapping etc. Geometry images

Fully regular surface representations

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

Example: Hypersheet

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

David Gu

Teaching this fall: CSE 529 Simulation and

Modeling CSE 6xx: Seminar in

Geometry

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

The question really is:

Do we needeven moreplayingaround?

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

OF COURSE !!!

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Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation

OF COURSE !!!

Feel free to join in.…