Computational Scienceand Visualisation
Prof. dr. Alex Telea
Master Program Voorlichting 2010
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Scientific Visualization & Computer Graphics
Research directions
Information &Software Visualization
Scientific Visualization Computer Graphics & Interaction
Jos Roerdink Alex Telea Tobias Isenberg
Applications: Neuroimaging, genomics, astronomy, visual perception, SW engineering
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Research Topics
• scientific visualization• information and software visualization• perceptual visualization• computer graphics and rendering• non-photorealistic rendering• innovative interactive systems• computational geometry• application topics (biomedical imaging,
bioinformatics, astronomical visualization, etc.)
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds• “Lucy” model:
– 10 million points– computation time: 21min– mesh with 39 million triangles– needs 2.6 GB of RAM
– efficiency?– performance?
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Medical Visualization
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Geometric Algorithms: Skeletonization
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Geometric Algorithms: Skeletonization
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Geometric Algorithms: Other
Image inpaintingShape part segmentation
Brain skeletonsShape patch segmentation
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Astronomical Data Subspace Analysis
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Information Visualization: Gene Network
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Medical InfoVis: Average EEG Brain Map
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Software Visualization
UML diagrams & metrics reverse engineering
peer-to-peer transactions software evolutionmemory allocations
source code syntax
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Non-Photorealistic & Illustrative Rendering
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Non-Photorealistic & Illustrative Rendering
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Innovative Interfaces: Touch Interaction
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Innovative Interfaces: Interactive VIS
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Special Facilities
• mobile 3D projection system (with HPCV Center)
• stereoscopic LCD display• visualization workstations• CAVE and theater (with HPCV Center)
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
Study Program CSV
quarter class name EC4.1 Advanced Web Technology 5
Scientific Visualization 5 Numerical Mathematics 1 5
4.2 Image Processing 5 free choice* 5 Introduction Computational Science 5
4.3 Student Colloquium 5 Geometric Algorithms 5 Advanced Computer Graphics 5
4.4 research project (Onderzoeksstage) 155.1 Modeling and Simulation 5
2× free choice* 105.2 3× free choice* 155.3 & 5.4 final project and Master’s thesis 30
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
People @ SVCG
• Faculty– Dr. Henk Bekker Computational Geometry– Dr. Tobias Isenberg Computer Graphics, NPR, Interaction– Prof. Jos Roerdink Scientific Visualization & Applications– Prof. Alex Telea Software Vis, Flow Vis, Shape
Analysis
• PhD studentsAlessandro Crippa, Ozan Ersoy, Maarten Everts, Bilkis Ferdosi, Moritz Gerl, Deborah Mudali, Lingyun Yu
• Master studentsMai Ho, Cherian Mathew, Roelof Anne Schoenmaker,Pjotr Svetachov, Luc Vlaming, Bertjan Broeksema, Liewe Kwakman
Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea
More Information
• details in the current Master curriculum document:http://www.cs.rug.nl/~roe/curriculum/curriculum2010-2011.pdf
• look at SVCG group home page:http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/
• specifically, research and teaching & project pages:http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Main/Teaching
• staff personal web pages• talk to us:
Henk Bekker BB room 582Tobias Isenberg BB room 488Jos Roerdink BB room 480Alex Telea BB room 494