1. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 1 August 31, 2006 Center for Visual Computing

2. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 2 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

3. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 3 Who we are…  Arie Kaufman, Director  Hong Qin  Klaus Mueller  Dimitris Samaras  David Gu  Alex Vasilescu  Several members from outside CS department

4. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 4 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

5. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 5 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

6. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 6 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

7. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 7 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

8. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 8 On-Going Research Projects  Dynamic NURBS theory and applications  DYNASOAR: DYNAmic Solid Objects of Arbitrary topology (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

9. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 9 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)

10. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 10 Example: Detail Modeling  Infinite zooms by texture synthesis of detail

11. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 11 Example: Urban Modeling

12. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 12 Teaching (Graduate)  CSE 564 Visualization (Spring 2007)  CSE 594 Visual Analytics (Spring 2007)  CSE 648 Volume Graphics Seminar (all sems.)

13. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 13 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 +=

14. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 14 Example: expression transfer

15. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 15 Graduate students wanted  Hot computional neuroscience project: Machine learning methods for feature learning and pattern recognition in functional MRI

16. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 16 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

17. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 17 Example: Hypersheet

18. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 18 David Gu  Teaching this fall: CSE 529 Simulation and Modeling CSE 6xx: Seminar in Geometry

19. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 19 The question really is: Do we need even more playing around?

20. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 20 OF COURSE !!!

21. Computer Science Department Graduate Orientation 21 OF COURSE !!! Feel free to join in.…