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Curio: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Collaborative Urban Visual Analytics
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira October 13, 2024 - October 28, 2024 Over the past decade, several urban visual analytics systems and tools have been proposed to tackle a host of challenges faced by cities, in areas as… Read more |
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Learning Anomalies with Normality Prior for Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection
Haoyue Shi, Wei Tang September 29, 2024 - October 4, 2024 Unsupervised video anomaly detection (UVAD) aims to detect abnormal events in videos without any annotations. It remains challenging because… Read more |
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Analysis-by-Synthesis Transformer for Single-View 3D Reconstruction
Dian Jia, Kun Xia, Wei Tang, Zhiming Zou September 29, 2024 - October 4, 2024 Deep learning approaches have made significant success in single-view 3D reconstruction, but they often rely on expensive 3D annotations for… Read more |
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BI-LAVA: Biocuration with Hierarchical Image Labeling through Active Learning and Visual Analytics
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco September 22, 2024 In the biomedical domain, taxonomies organize the acquisition modalities of scientific images in hierarchical structures. Such taxonomies leverage… Read more |
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Assessing the Landscape of Toolkits, Frameworks, and Authoring Tools for Urban Visual Analytics Systems
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira, Leonardo Ferreira August 21, 2024 Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the development of visual analytics systems dedicated to addressing urban issues… Read more |
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Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s 50th Anniversary Retrospective: Look to the Future, Build on the Past
Andrew Johnson, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Daria Tsoupikova, G. Elisabeta Marai, Jason Leigh, Jonas Talandis, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Michael E. Papka, Thomas A. DeFanti August 1, 2024 September 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). EVL’s… Read more |
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DITTO: A Visual Digital Twin for Interventions and Temporal Treatment Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai July 18, 2024 - July 1, 2024 Digital twin models are of high interest to Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) oncologists, who have to navigate a series of complex treatment decisions that… Read more |
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The Effects of Virtual Reality Environments on Physiological Stress: A Platform Comparison Between Room-Scale Displays and Desktop Computers (MS Thesis Project)
Farah Kamleh April 26, 2024 Studies have proven the effectiveness of mindfulness and forest-immersion therapy as an option for stress reduction. However, what happens when an… Read more |
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MOTIV: Visual Exploration of Moral Framing in Social Media
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai March 15, 2024 This project was performed during the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents a visual computing framework (MOTIV) for analyzing moral rhetoric on social… Read more |
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Deep Umbra: A Generative Approach for Sunlight Access Computation in Urban Spaces
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira, Kazi Shahrukh Omar February 1, 2024 Sunlight and shadow play critical roles in how urban spaces are utilized, thrive, and grow. While access to sunlight is essential to the success of… Read more |
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e-JUST - Environmental Justice using Urban Scalable Toolkit
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira January 28, 2024 - February 1, 2024 e-JUST - Environmental Justice using Urban Scalable Toolkit, a state-of-the-art GIS-based web platform, is being developed to inform local and… Read more |
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Kiviat Defense: An Empirical Evaluation of Visual Encoding Effectiveness in Multivariate Data Similarity Detection
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco, Mirko Mantovani January 22, 2024 - January 25, 2024 Similarity detection seeks to identify similar, but distinct items over multivariate datasets. Often, similarity cannot be defined computationally… Read more |
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MouseScholar: Evaluating an Image+Text Search System for Biocuration
Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco December 5, 2023 - December 8, 2023 Biocuration is the process of analyzing biological or biomedical articles to organize biological data into data repositories using taxonomies and… Read more |
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Effects of employing liquid-liquid emulsions on heat transfer within a turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection
Hal Brynteson, Michael E. Papka November 19, 2023 - November 21, 2023 Rayleigh-Benard (RB) convection occurs in a fluid layer when there is a temperature difference between the top and bottom boundaries, resulting in… Read more |
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Scaling Computational Fluid Dynamics: In Situ Visualization of NekRS using SENSEI
Michael E. Papka November 12, 2023 - November 17, 2023 In the realm of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), the demand for memory and computation resources is extreme, necessitating the use of… Read more |
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SAGE3 for Interactive Collaborative Visualization, Analysis, and Storytelling
Luc Renambot November 5, 2023 - November 8, 2023 SAGE3, the newest and most advanced generation of the Smart Amplified Group Environment, is an open-source software designed to facilitate… Read more |
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Using Personal Situated Analytics (PSA) to Interpret Recorded Meetings
Andrew Johnson, Ashwini Naik October 29, 2023 - November 1, 2023 Applications in immersive environments have gained popularity for training, learning, and recreational tasks. Due to the increasing availability of… Read more |
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Roses Have Thorns: Understanding the Downside of Oncological Care Delivery Through Visual Analytics and Sequential Rule Mining
Andrew Wentzel, Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai October 22, 2023 - October 27, 2023 Personalized head and neck cancer therapeutics have greatly improved survival rates for patients, but are often leading to understudied long-lasting… Read more |
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The Urban Toolkit: A Grammar-based Framework for Urban Visual Analytics
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu October 22, 2023 - October 27, 2023 While cities around the world are looking for smart ways to channel new advances in data collection, management, and analysis to address their… Read more |
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ProWis: A visual approach for building, managing, and analyzing weather simulation ensembles in runtime
Fabio Miranda October 22, 2023 - October 27, 2023 Weather forecasting is essential for decision-making and is usually performed using numerical modeling. Numerical weather models, in turn, are… Read more |
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Speculative Progressive Raycasting for Memory Constrained Isosurface Visualization of Massive Volumes
Landon Richard Dyken, Sidharth Kumar October 22, 2023 - October 27, 2023 New web technologies have enabled the deployment of powerful GPU-based computational pipelines that run entirely in the web browser, opening a new… Read more |
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PSA: A Cross-Platform Framework for Situated Analytics in MR and VR
Andrew Johnson, Ashwini Naik October 16, 2023 - October 20, 2023 Using immersive environments for training, education, and recreation is becoming increasingly popular among individuals. In recent years these… Read more |
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Multi-Organ Spatial Stratification of 3-D Dose Distributions Improves Risk Prediction of Long-Term Self-Reported Severe Symptoms in Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients Receiving Radiotherapy: Development of a Pre-Treatment Decision Support Tool.
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai July 17, 2023 Recent advances in precision medicine for treating Oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) have led to significant improvements in survival for patients. However… Read more |
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Enhancing biomedical search interfaces with images
G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco July 17, 2023 Motivation: Figures in biomedical papers communicate essential information with the potential to identify relevant documents in biomedical and… Read more |
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Spatially-aware clustering improves AJCC-8 risk stratification performance in oropharyngeal carcinomas
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai June 28, 2023 Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of machine learning tools that incorporate spatial information such as disease location and lymph node… Read more |
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ChemoGraph: Interactive Visual Exploration of the Chemical Space
Michael E. Papka June 12, 2023 - June 16, 2023 Honorable Mention in the EuroVis Best Paper Category Exploratory analysis of the chemical space is an important task in the field of cheminformatics… Read more |
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The State of the Art in Visualizing Dynamic Multivariate Networks
Michael E. Papka June 12, 2023 - June 16, 2023 Most real-world networks are both dynamic and multivariate in nature, meaning that the network is associated with various attributes and both the… Read more |
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DASS Good: Explainable Data Mining of Oncology Imaging and Toxicity Data
Andrew Wentzel, Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai June 1, 2023 Developing applicable clinical machine learning models is a difficult task when the data includes spatial information, for example, radiation dose… Read more |
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Visualizing the NOAA CarbonTracker-CH4 3-D Mole Fraction (Pressure Corrected) Dataset
Matt Ziminski May 1, 2023 Methane the main component of natural gas is also a potent greenhouse gas that requires robust monitoring, so that scientists, educators, and the… Read more |
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The Effects of Virtual Reality Environments on Physiological Stress: A Platform Comparison Between Room-Scale Displays and Desktop Computers (poster)
Farah Kamleh April 28, 2023 Background: Existing studies have reported that forest therapy utilizing sensory stimuli increases the activity of the parasympathetic nervous system… Read more |
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The Effects of Virtual Reality Environments on Physiological Stress: A Platform Comparison Between Room-Scale Displays and Desktop Computers
Farah Kamleh April 28, 2023 In the past, existing studies have proven the effectiveness of forest therapy as an option for stress reduction, but what happens when an individual… Read more |
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Mapping the walk: A scalable computer vision approach for generating sidewalk network datasets from aerial imagery
Fabio Miranda February 22, 2023 While cities around the world are increasingly promoting streets and public spaces that prioritize pedestrians over vehicles, significant data gaps… Read more |
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Visual Analysis and Detection of Contrails in Aircraft Engine Simulations
Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu January 1, 2023 Contrails are condensation trails generated from emitted particles by aircraft engines, which perturb Earth’s radiation budget. Simulation modeling… Read more |
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Alveolus Analysis: A Web Browser-based Tool to Analyze Lung Intravital Microscopy
Andrew Burks, G. Elisabeta Marai November 30, 2022 BACKGROUND: Acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are characterized by pulmonary inflammation, reduced endothelial… Read more |
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The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytics, Policy, and Tools
Fabio Miranda October 23, 2022 - October 26, 2022 Inaccessible urban infrastructure creates and reinforces systemic exclusion of people with disabilities and impacts public health, physical activity… Read more |
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Head and Neck Cancer Predictive Risk Estimator to Determine Control and Therapeutic Outcomes of Radiotherapy (HNCPREDICTOR)
G. Elisabeta Marai, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu October 21, 2022 Background. Personalized radiotherapy can improve treatment outcomes of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients, where currently a… Read more |
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Crowdsourcing and Sidewalk Data: A Preliminary Study on the Trustworthiness of OpenStreetMap Data in the US
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira, Kazi Shahrukh Omar October 17, 2022 Sidewalks play a pivotal role in urban mobility of everyday life. Ideally, sidewalks provide a safe walkway for pedestrians, link public… Read more |
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Visual Analysis and Detection of Contrails in Aircraft Engine Simulations
Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu October 16, 2022 - October 21, 2022 Contrails are condensation trails generated from emitted particles by aircraft engines, which perturb Earth’s radiation budget. Simulation… Read more |
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A Comparison of Spatiotemporal Visualizations for 3D Urban Analytics
Fabio Miranda October 16, 2022 - October 21, 2022 Recent technological innovations have led to an increase in the availability of 3D urban data, such as shadow, noise, solar potential, and earthquake… Read more |
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V-NeuroStack: Open-source 3D time stack software for identifying patterns in neuronal data
Ashwini Naik, Robert V. Kenyon October 12, 2022 Understanding functional correlations between the activities of neuron populations are vital for the analysis of neuronal networks. Analyzing… Read more |
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A Comparative Study of Methods for the Visualization of Probability Distributions of Geographical Data
Fabio Miranda, Sanjana Srabanti July 13, 2022 Probability distributions are omnipresent in data analysis. They are often used to model the natural uncertainty present in real phenomena or to… Read more |
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Moving from Composable to Programmable
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Zhongyi Chen June 3, 2022 In today’s Big Data era, data scientists require modern workflows to quickly analyze large-scale datasets using complex codes to maintain the… Read more |
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Composable Infrastructures for an Academic Research Environment: Lessons Learned
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Zhongyi Chen June 3, 2022 Composable infrastructure holds the promise of accelerating the pace of academic research and discovery by enabling researchers to tailor the… Read more |
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Moving from Composable to Programmable
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Zhongyi Chen April 15, 2022 In today’s Big Data era, data scientists require modern workflows to quickly analyze large-scale datasets using complex codes to maintain the… Read more |
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Composable Infrastructures for an Academic Research Environment: Lessons Learned
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Timothy Bargo April 15, 2022 Composable infrastructure holds the promise of accelerating the pace of academic research and discovery by enabling researchers to tailor the… Read more |
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A Tale of Two Centers: Visual Exploration of Health Disparities in Cancer Care
G. Elisabeta Marai, Sanjana Srabanti April 11, 2022 - April 14, 2022 The annual incidence of head and neck cancers (HNC) worldwide is more than 550,000 cases, with around 300,000 deaths each year. However, the… Read more |
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Exploiting appearance transfer and multi-scale context for efficient person image generation
Wei Tang April 1, 2022 Pose guided person image generation means to generate a photo-realistic person image conditioned on an input person image and a desired pose. This… Read more |
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CitySurfaces: City-scale semantic segmentation of sidewalk materials
Fabio Miranda April 1, 2022 While designing sustainable and resilient urban built environment is increasingly promoted around the world, significant data gaps have made research… Read more |
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Visualizing simulation ensembles of extreme weather events
Fabio Miranda February 3, 2022 In the last 20 years, extreme weather-related events like floods, landslides, droughts, and wildfires have caused the death of 1.23 million people… Read more |
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THALIS: Human-Machine Analysis of Longitudinal Symptoms in Cancer Therapy
Andrew Wentzel, Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu January 1, 2022 Although cancer patients survive years after oncologic therapy, they are plagued with long-lasting or permanent residual symptoms, whose severity… Read more |
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Securing Collaborative Work in Wide-band Display Environments
Andrew Burks, Andrew Johnson, Krishna Bharadwaj, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown December 13, 2021 - December 15, 2021 SAGE2 (Scalable Amplified Group Environment) is the de-facto platform to support group work on wide-band display environments. Unlike most web… Read more |
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ANIMO: Annotation of Biomed Image Modalities
G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco December 9, 2021 - December 12, 2021 Figures within biomedical articles present essential evidence of the relevance of a publication in a curation workflow. In particular, visual cues of… Read more |
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COVID-19 EnsembleVis: Visual Analysis of County-level Ensemble Forecast Models
Fabio Miranda, G. Elisabeta Marai, Sanjana Srabanti December 1, 2021 The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its contagious disease COVID-19 has impacted countries to an extent not seen since the 1918 flu pandemic. In… Read more |
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Supporting Collaborative Exploratory Visual Data Analysis in Multi-device Environments
Abeer Alsaiari November 1, 2021 There is a steadily growing interest in leveraging ecosystems of digital devices that go beyond a single desktop for collaborative visual data… Read more |
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Interaction with Multiple Data Visualizations Through Natural Language Commands
Jillian Aurisano November 1, 2021 Data exploration stands to benefit from environments that permit users to examine and juxtapose many views of data, particularly views that present… Read more |
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Parameter Analysis and Contrail Detection of Aircraft Engine Simulations
Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu October 25, 2021 Aircraft engines emit particulates that alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere and perturb the Earth’s radiation budget by creating… Read more |
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Modulated Graph Convolutional Network for 3D Human Pose Estimation
Wei Tang October 11, 2021 - October 17, 2021 The graph convolutional network (GCN) has recently achieved promising performance of 3D human pose estimation (HPE) by modeling the relationship… Read more |
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Feature Selection for Support Vector Regression Using a Genetic Algorithm
G. Elisabeta Marai September 8, 2021 Support vector regression (SVR) is particularly beneficial when the outcome and predictors are nonlinearly related. However, when many covariates are… Read more |
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UrbanRama: Navigating Cities in Virtual Reality
Fabio Miranda July 26, 2021 Exploring large virtual environments, such as cities, is a central task in several domains, such as gaming and urban planning. VR systems can greatly… Read more |
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Utilizing Image and Caption Information for Biomedical Document Classification
G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco July 25, 2021 - July 30, 2021 Motivation: Biomedical research findings are typically disseminated through publications. To simplify access to domain-specific knowledge while… Read more |
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Predicting late symptoms of head and neck cancer treatment using LSTM and patient reported outcomes
G. Elisabeta Marai July 14, 2021 - July 16, 2021 Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) surveys are used to monitor patients’ symptoms during and after cancer treatment. Late symptoms refer to those… Read more |
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Oropharyngeal cancer patient stratification using random forest based‑learning over high‑dimensional radiomic features
G. Elisabeta Marai July 7, 2021 To improve risk prediction for oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) patients using cluster analysis on the radiomic features extracted from pre‑treatment… Read more |
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Exploit Visual Dependency Relations for Semantic Segmentation
Wei Tang June 19, 2021 - June 25, 2021 Dependency relations among visual entities are ubiquitous because both objects and scenes are highly structured. They provide prior knowledge about… Read more |
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A digital twin dyad with deep Q-learning in head and neck cancer treatment
Andrew Wentzel, Elisa Tardini, G. Elisabeta Marai June 18, 2021 Each year, over 60,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with head and neck cancers. Treatment strategies are dynamic and complex and can… Read more |
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Precision association of lymphatic disease spread with radiation-associated toxicity in oropharyngeal squamous carcinomas
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani June 11, 2021 Purpose: To determine whether patient similarity in terms of head and neck cancer spread through lymph nodes correlates significantly with… Read more |
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Identifying Symptom Clusters Through Association Rule Mining
Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai June 8, 2021 Cancer patients experience many symptoms throughout their cancer treatment and sometimes suffer from lasting effects post treatment. Patient-Reported… Read more |
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Recursive meta-Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Sequential Dynamic Treatment Policies
Elisa Tardini May 1, 2021 In recent years deep meta-reinforcement learning has extended the applicability of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms: by integrating recurrent… Read more |
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Modality-Classification of Microscopy Images Using Shallow Variants of Deep Networks
G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco December 16, 2020 - December 19, 2020 Microscopy images are pervasive in biomedical research publications, where images obtained through various microscopy modalities (light… Read more |
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The Fabric of Visualization
G. Elisabeta Marai December 1, 2020 The visualization theory foundations draw on several domains, from signal processing to software design and perception. This chapter describes the… Read more |
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Learning Global Pose Features in Graph Convolutional Networks for 3D Human Pose Estimation
Wei Tang November 30, 2020 - December 4, 2020 As the human body skeleton can be represented as a sparse graph, it is natural to exploit graph convolutional networks (GCNs) to model the… Read more |
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Visualizing Symptom Development During Head and Neck Cancer Treatment
Andrew Wentzel, Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu October 25, 2020 - October 30, 2020 Approximately 100,000 cases of Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) are diagnosed in the US annually. Patients are increasingly likely to survive but often… Read more |
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Explainable Spatial Clustering: Leveraging Spatial Data in Radiation Oncology
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai October 25, 2020 - October 30, 2020 Advances in data collection in radiation therapy have led to an abundance of opportunities for applying data mining and machine learning techniques… Read more |
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Precision toxicity correlates of tumor spatial proximity to organs at risk in cancer patients receiving intensity-modulated radiotherapy
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Peter Hanula July 1, 2020 Abstract Purpose: Using a 200 Head and Neck cancer (HNC) patient cohort, we employ patient similarity based on tumor location, volume, and proximity… Read more |
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Intelligent Assistant for Exploring Data Visualizations
Abhinav Kumar, Andrew Johnson, Jillian Aurisano May 17, 2020 - May 20, 2020 Visualization, while an effective tool for identifying patterns and insights, requires expert knowledge due to challenges faced when translating user… Read more |
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Augmenting Small Data to Classify Contextualized Dialogue Acts for Exploratory Visualization
Abhinav Kumar, Andrew Johnson, Jillian Aurisano May 11, 2020 - May 16, 2020 Our goal is to develop an intelligent assistant to support users explore data via visualizations. We have collected a new corpus of conversations… Read more |
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Using Augmented Reality to Assist Seated Office Workers’ Data Entry Tasks
Andrew Johnson March 22, 2020 - March 26, 2020 The data entry task is one of the common office tasks performed in the seated position that can be assisted by augmented reality technology. The… Read more |
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Clustering of Largely Right-Censored Oropharyngeal Head and Neck Cancer Patients for Discriminative Groupings to Improve Outcome Prediction
G. Elisabeta Marai March 2, 2020 Clustering is the task of identifying groups of similar subjects according to certain criteria. The AJCC staging system can be thought as a… Read more |
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A Spatial Neighborhood Methodology for Computing and Analyzing Lymph Node Carcinoma Similarity in Precision Medicine
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani March 1, 2020 Precision medicine seeks to tailor therapy to the individual patient, based on statistical correlates from patients who are similar to the one under… Read more |
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Visual Data Science: Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Systems (poster session)
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown January 17, 2020 COMPaaS DLV, COMposable Platform as a Service Instrument for Deep Learning & Visualization, was purchased from Liqid, Inc., with NSF funds. Its… Read more |
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V-NeuroStack: 3-D time stacks for finding patterns in spontaneous activity of neurons in mouse brain slice
Ashwini Naik, Robert V. Kenyon October 21, 2019 V-NeuroStack is a web application which uses 3-D time stack approach to identify patterns in the neuronal activity and to understand functional… Read more |
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Bringing the Field into the Lab: Large-Scale Visualization of Animal Movement Trajectories within a Virtual Island
Andrew Johnson, James Hwang, Jillian Aurisano, Lance Long October 21, 2019 Animal behavior research is becoming an increasingly data-driven field, enabled by advancements in GPS tracking. Rather than directly observe… Read more |
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Towards Understanding Collaborative Visual Data Analysis in Multi-Device Environments
Abeer Alsaiari, Andrew Johnson October 20, 2019 - October 25, 2019 There is a steadily growing interest in leveraging ecosystems of digital devices that go beyond a single desktop for visual data analysis and… Read more |
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Chronic Radiation-Associated Dysphagia in Oropharyngeal Cancer Survivors: Towards Age-Adjusted Dose Constraints for Deglutitive Muscles
G. Elisabeta Marai September 1, 2019 Objectives: We sought to model chronic radiation-associated dysphagia (RAD) in patients given intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for… Read more |
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Broadening Intellectual Diversity in Visualization Research Papers
G. Elisabeta Marai July 1, 2019 - August 1, 2019 Promoting a wider range of contribution types can facilitate healthy growth of the visualization community, while increasing the intellectual… Read more |
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Visual Analysis of a Smart City’s Energy Consumption
G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco May 2, 2019 Through the use of open data portals, cities, districts and countries are increasingly making available energy consumption data. These data have the… Read more |
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Immersive Analytics Lessons from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory: a 25 Year Perspective
Andrew Johnson, G. Elisabeta Marai, Jason Leigh May 1, 2019 - June 30, 2019 This article provides a 25 year-long perspective on Immersive Analytics through the lens of first-in-kind technological advancements introduced at… Read more |
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DarkSky Halos: Use-Based Exploration of Dark Matter Formation Data in a Hybrid Immersive Virtual Environment
G. Elisabeta Marai, Julieta Aguilera, Peter Hanula March 4, 2019 Hybrid virtual reality environments allow analysts to choose how much of the screen real estate they want to use for Virtual Reality (VR) immersion… Read more |
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Visual Analysis Techniques for Dynamic Biological Networks
Chihua Ma April 1, 2018 Recent neuroscience research indicates that cognitive operations are performed not by individual brain regions working in isolation, but by networks… Read more |
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360° Imaging Should Be 3D - But Why And How? (panel presentation)
Daniel J. Sandin January 30, 2018 UIC professor emeritus and EVL co-founder Daniel Sandin participates in a panel discussion on the merits of stereoscopic panoramic imaging at the… Read more |
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Activity-Centered Domain Characterization for Problem-Driven Scientific Visualization
G. Elisabeta Marai January 1, 2018 Although visualization design models exist in the literature in the form of higher-level methodological frameworks, these models do not present a… Read more |
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Visualizing ensemble time-evolving probability landscapes of stochastic networks
Andrew Burks, Chihua Ma, G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani September 29, 2017 The computational study of the dynamic and stochastic natures of gene regulatory networks is a challenging topic in systems biology. Visualizing… Read more |
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Toward meaningful care plan clinical decision support: Feasibility and effects of a simulated pilot study
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson September 1, 2017 - October 1, 2017 Background - Clinical decision support (CDS) tools - with easily understood and actionable information, at the point of care - are needed to help… Read more |
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Mixed Presence Collaboration using Scalable Visualizations in Heterogeneous Display Spaces
Andrew Johnson, Angus Forbes, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Steve Jones, Thomas Marrinan February 25, 2017 - March 1, 2017 Mixed presence collaboration involves remote collaboration between multiple collocated groups. This paper presents the design and results of a user… Read more |
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Interactive Multi-Modal Display Spaces for Visual Analysis
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Joe Insley, Michael E. Papka, Thomas Marrinan November 6, 2016 - November 9, 2016 Classic visual analysis relies on a single medium for displaying and interacting with data. Large-scale tiled display walls, virtual reality using… Read more |
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Articulate2: Toward a Conversational Interface for Visual Data Exploration
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jillian Aurisano October 23, 2016 - October 28, 2016 InfoVis novices struggle with visualization construction. Even with the aid of visualization software, such users may face challenges when… Read more |
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Data in context: Conceptualizing site-specific visualization projects.
Angus Forbes October 1, 2016 Site-specific data visualization installations have distinct conditions of data collection, data analysis, audience interaction, and data archiving… Read more |
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Towards a Dialogue System that Supports Rich Visualizations of Data
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jillian Aurisano September 13, 2016 - September 15, 2016 The goal of our research is to support full-fledged dialogue between a user and a system that transforms the user queries into visualizations. So… Read more |
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GPU Acceleration and Interactive Visualization for Spatio-Temporal Networks
Andrea Purgato August 15, 2016 The thesis work presented here focuses on the optimization of the similarity computation among nodes for spatio-temporal networks. The study case in… Read more |
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Developing a Scalable SNMP Monitor
G. Elisabeta Marai, Joshua Rodriguez, Krishna Bharadwaj, Lance Long May 23, 2016 - May 27, 2016 We present the design of a scalable visual tool for the analysis of high-throughput network traffic, power consumption and cluster-based system… Read more |
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Interdisciplinary Immersive Analytics at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory: Lessons Learned and Upcoming Challenges
Andrew Johnson, Angus Forbes, G. Elisabeta Marai March 19, 2016 - March 23, 2016 We describe the lessons learned from three recent Immersive Analytics projects which take place at the Electronic Visualization Lab. These successful… Read more |
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Modeling and evaluating user behavior in exploratory visual analysis.
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh March 1, 2016 Empirical evaluation methods for visualizations have traditionally focused on assessing the outcome of the visual analytic process as opposed to… Read more |
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SwordPlots: Exploring Neuron Behavior within Dynamic Communities of Brain Networks
Angus Forbes, Chihua Ma, Robert V. Kenyon January 1, 2016 Study of the behavior of individual members in communities of dynamic networks can help neuroscientists to understand how interactions between… Read more |
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Choosing Visualization Techniques for Multidimensional Data Projection Tasks: A Guideline with Examples
Angus Forbes January 1, 2016 This paper presents a guideline for visualization designers who want to choose appropriate techniques for enhancing tasks involving multidimensional… Read more |
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Visual Descriptors for Dense Tensor Fields in Computational Turbulent Combustion: A Case Study
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani January 1, 2016 Simulation and modeling of turbulent flow, and of turbulent reacting flow in particular, involve solving for and analyzing time-dependent and… Read more |
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SAGE2: a Collaboration Portal for Scalable Resolution Displays
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Jillian Aurisano, Krishna Bharadwaj, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Thomas Marrinan, Victor Mateevitsi January 1, 2016 In this paper, we present SAGE2, a software framework that enables local and remote collaboration on Scalable Resolution Display Environments (SRDE)… Read more |
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Understanding Transportation Accessibility of Metropolitan Chicago Through Interactive Visualization
Andrew Johnson, Angus Forbes, Shi Yin November 3, 2015 - November 6, 2015 Accessibility is an important element in urban transportation planning. Accessibility measures combine mobility and land use measures to provide a… Read more |
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Halos in a Dark Sky: Interactively Exploring the Structure of Dark Matter Halo Merger Trees
Angus Forbes, Kyle Almryde October 25, 2015 - October 30, 2015 This paper introduces a novel web application that visualizes dark matter halo merger trees and their evolution through space and time. Our… Read more |
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Cavern Halos: Exploring Spatial and Nonspatial Cosmological Data in an Immersive Virtual Environment
Arthur Nishimoto, Carlos Uribe, G. Elisabeta Marai, Julieta Aguilera, Kyle Almryde, Peter Hanula October 25, 2015 - October 30, 2015 We present the design and implementation of an immersive visual mining and analysis tool for cosmological data. The tool consists of an immersive… Read more |
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ProvenanceMatrix: A Visualization Tool for Multi-Taxonomy Alignments
Angus Forbes, Tuan Dang October 11, 2015 Visualizing and analyzing the relationships between taxonomic entities represented in multiple input classifications is both challenging and required… Read more |
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Emotionally Augmented Storytelling Agent - The Effects of Dimensional Emotion Modeling for Agent Behavior Control
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Steve Jones August 26, 2015 - August 28, 2015 The study presented in this paper focuses on a dimensional theory to augment agent nonverbal behavior including emotional facial expression and head… Read more |
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BactoGeNIE: A Large-Scale Comparative Genome Visualization for Big Displays
Andrew Johnson, G. Elisabeta Marai, Jason Leigh, Jillian Aurisano, Khairi Reda August 1, 2015 Background: The volume of complete bacterial genome sequence data available to comparative genomics researchers is rapidly increasing. However… Read more |
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ReactionFlow: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Causality Analysis in Biological Pathways
Angus Forbes, Jillian Aurisano, Tuan Dang July 10, 2015 - July 11, 2015 Background: Molecular and systems biologists are tasked with the comprehension and analysis of incredibly complex networks of biochemical… Read more |
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PathwayMatrix: Visualizing Binary Relationships between Proteins in Biological Pathways
Angus Forbes, Paul Murray, Tuan Dang July 10, 2015 - July 11, 2015 Background: Molecular activation pathways are inherently complex, and understanding relations across many biochemical reactions and reaction types is… Read more |
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Visual Scaffolding in Integrated Spatial and Nonspatial Analysis
G. Elisabeta Marai May 25, 2015 - May 29, 2015 Collaborative visual analytics that feature mixtures of spatial and nonspatial data occur across disciplines, and are particularly common in… Read more |
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Effects of Display Size and Resolution on User Behavior and Insight Acquisition in Visual Exploration
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda April 18, 2015 - April 23, 2015 Large high-resolution displays are becoming increasingly common in research settings, providing data scientists with visual interfaces for the… Read more |
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Multiuser-Centered Resource Scheduling for Collaborative Display Wall Environments
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam April 1, 2015 The popularity of large-scale, high-resolution display walls, as visualization endpoints in eScience infrastructure, is rapidly growing. These… Read more |
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A user-centric taxonomy for multidimensional data projection tasks
Angus Forbes March 11, 2015 - March 14, 2015 When investigating multidimensional data sets with very large numbers of objects and/or a very large number of dimensions, a variety of visualization… Read more |
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SAGEnext: Next Generation Integrated Persistent Visualization and Collaboration Services for Global Cyberinfrastructure
February 17, 2015 - February 18, 2015 SAGE, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment, is the defacto operating system for managing Big Data content on scalable-resolution tiled display… Read more |
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Clustering Method for Identifying Regions of Interest in Turbulent Combustion Tensor Fields
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani February 1, 2015 U.S. energy consumption is dominated by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and petroleum. Production of electricity and propulsion… Read more |
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Development and Validation of a Virtual Human Vignette to Compare Nurses Assessment and Intervention Choices for Pain in Critically Ill Children
Andrew Johnson, Sangyoon Lee February 1, 2015 Introduction: As virtual experiences are increasingly used in health care training and research, it is important that adequate processes are applied… Read more |
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StretchPlot: Interactive Visualization of Multi-Dimensional Trajectory Data
Angus Forbes, Paul Murray November 11, 2014 - November 14, 2014 The visualization of space-time trajectory data is challenging due to the fact that, in most cases, the data inherently exists in more than two… Read more |
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Evaluating User Behavior and Strategy During Visual Exploration
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Michael E. Papka November 10, 2014 Visualization practitioners have traditionally focused on evaluating the outcome of the visual analytic process, as opposed to studying how that… Read more |
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Parallel Processing and Immersive Visualization of Sonar Point Clouds
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson November 9, 2014 - November 10, 2014 The investigation of underwater structures and natural features through Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is an expanding field with applications… Read more |
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Parallel Processing and Immersive Visualization of Sonar Data (poster)
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson November 9, 2014 - November 10, 2014 The investigation of underwater structures and natural features through Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is an expanding field with applications… Read more |
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Transforming Scagnostics to Reveal Hidden Features
Tuan Dang November 9, 2014 - November 14, 2014 Scagnostics (Scatterplot Diagnostics) were developed by Wilkinson et al., based on an idea of Paul and John Tukey, in order to discern meaningful… Read more |
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Visualizing Communities in Dynamic Mouse Brain Networks
Chihua Ma, Robert V. Kenyon November 9, 2014 - November 14, 2014 Community structure analysis reveals the properties of social networks. The application of this analysis to evolving communities in dynamic networks… Read more |
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Interactively Exploring Geotemporal Relationships in Demographic Data via Stretch Projections
Angus Forbes, Paul Murray November 1, 2014 This paper investigates the interactive projection of multivariate space-time data. Specifically, it investigates how complex datasets containing… Read more |
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Bacterial Gene Neighborhood Investigation Environment: A Scalable Genome Visualization for Big Displays
Jillian Aurisano August 15, 2014 In this thesis, I present a novel genome data visualization targeting an important area of genomics research: comparative bacterial gene neighborhood… Read more |
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FixingTIM: Interactive Exploration of Sequence and Structural Data to Identify Functional Mutations in Protein Families
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani August 1, 2014 Background: Knowledge of the 3D structure and functionality of proteins can lead to insight into the associated cellular processes, speed up the… Read more |
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Large-Scale Overlays and Trends: Visually Mining, Panning and Zooming the Observable Universe
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani July 1, 2014 We introduce a web-based computing infrastructure to assist the visual integration, mining and interactive navigation of large-scale astronomy… Read more |
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Visualizing Targeted Audiences
Angus Forbes May 27, 2014 - May 30, 2014 Users of social networks can be passionate about sharing their political convictions, art projects, or business ventures. They often want to direct… Read more |
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Expanding the Porthole: Leveraging Large, High-Resolution Displays in Exploratory Visual Analysis
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda April 26, 2014 - May 1, 2014 The scale and complexity of today’s datasets frequently overwhelm conventional visualization interfaces, which could negatively impact the… Read more |
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Omegalib: a Multi-View Application Framework for Hybrid Reality Display Environments
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Victor Mateevitsi March 29, 2014 - April 2, 2014 In the domain of large-scale visualization instruments, hybrid reality environments (HREs) are a recent innovation that combines the best-in-class… Read more |
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Immunohistochemical Evaluation of Bleeding Control Induced by Holmium Laser and Biolase Dental Laser As Coagulting Devices of Incisional Wounds
Jason Leigh, Victor Mateevitsi March 6, 2014 Laser use in the medical field brought many enhancements to clinical and surgical procedures. Many different devices are now available for dental… Read more |
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Scalable parallel I/O on a Blue Gene/Q supercomputer using compression, topology-aware data aggregation, and subfiling
Eric He, Huy A. Bui, Jason Leigh, Michael E. Papka, Venkatram Vishwanath February 12, 2014 - February 14, 2014 In this paper, we propose an approach to improving the I/O performance of an IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputing system using a novel framework that can… Read more |
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GCLViz: Garbage Collection vs. Latency Visualization
Chihua Ma January 5, 2014 - January 8, 2014 This paper proposes a method that creates a multi-view interactive visualization that allows users to explore connections between garbage collection… Read more |
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Top Challenges in the Visualization of Engineering Tensor Fields
G. Elisabeta Marai January 1, 2014 In this chapter we summarize the top research challenges in creating successful visualization tools for tensor fields in engineering. The analysis is… Read more |
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Visualization of Tensor Quantities Used in Computational Turbulent Combustion
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani November 24, 2013 - November 26, 2013 Simulation and modeling of turbulent flow, and of turbulent reacting flow in particular, involves solving for and analyzing time-dependent and… Read more |
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Visualization Design Patterns for Ultra-Resolution Display Environments
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jillian Aurisano, Khairi Reda November 22, 2013 The past 10 years have seen great advances in visualization infrastructure. From large, ultra-resolution displays (URDs) to new interaction devices… Read more |
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Cerebral Microcirculation and Oxygen Tension in the Human Secondary Cortex
Thomas Marrinan November 1, 2013 The three-dimensional spatial arrangement of the cortical microcirculatory system is critical for understanding oxygen exchange between blood vessels… Read more |
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Visualizing Large-Scale Atomistic Simulations in Ultra-Resolution Immersive Environments
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Michael E. Papka October 13, 2013 - October 14, 2013 Molecular Dynamics is becoming a principle methodology in the study of nanoscale systems, paving the way for innovations in battery design and… Read more |
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Articulate: Creating Meaningful Visualizations from Natural Language (chapter)
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Kang B. Sun, Yiwen Sun August 29, 2013 This chapter presents an approach to enable non-visualization experts to craft advanced visualizations through the use of natural language as the… Read more |
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Context-dependent navigation in a collectively foraging species of ant, Messor cephalotes
Khairi Reda, Victor Mateevitsi August 1, 2013 More than 100 years of scientific research has provided evidence for sophisticated navigational mechanisms in social insects. One key role for… Read more |
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Visualizing Large, Heterogeneous Data in Hybrid-Reality Environments
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Jillian Aurisano, Khairi Reda, Michael E. Papka July 1, 2013 - August 1, 2013 Vision is our dominant sense, with roughly a quarter of our brain devoted to processing visual stimuli, providing the highest bandwidth perceptual… Read more |
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CAVE2: A Hybrid Reality Environment for Immersive Simulation and Information Analysis
Alan Verlo, Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, JD Pirtle, Jonas Talandis, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Sungwon Nam, Tom Peterka February 4, 2013 - February 5, 2013 Hybrid Reality Environments represent a new kind of visualization spaces that blur the line between virtual environments and high resolution tiled… Read more |
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Scalable Visual Queries for Data Exploration on Large, High-Resolution 3D Displays
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Victor Mateevitsi November 12, 2012 As the scale and complexity of data continue to grow at unprecedented rates, scientists are increasingly relying on Large, High-Resolution Displays… Read more |
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Brain Vascular Reconstruction, Simulation, and Visualization
Thomas Marrinan October 14, 2012 - October 19, 2012 Current techniques in medical imaging and analysis primarily focus on recording information about one specific physiological property at a time… Read more |
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A Novel Method for Tracking Tensor-based Regions of Interest in Large-Scale, Spatially-Dense Turbulent Combustion Data
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani October 1, 2012 In visualization of tensor data associated with turbulent combustion simulations, the datasets we have to process and visualize are typically… Read more |
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Media Arts in Support of Science Education, ISEA2012
Brenda Lopez Silva, Daria Tsoupikova, Helen-Nicole Kostis, Julieta Aguilera, Tina Shah September 19, 2012 - September 24, 2012 This paper examines the role of media arts in the development of interactive learning environments for science, technology, engineering, and… Read more |
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Poisson reconstruction of extreme submersed environments: The ENDURANCE exploration of an under-ice Antarctic Lake
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Eric He July 16, 2012 - July 18, 2012 We evaluate the use of Poisson reconstruction to generate a 3D bathymetric model of West Lake Bonney, Antarctica. The source sonar dataset has been… Read more |
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AstroShelf: Understanding the Universe Through Scalable Navigation of a Galaxy of Annotations
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani May 20, 2012 - May 24, 2012 This demo presents AstroShelf, our on-going effort to enable astrophysicists to collaboratively investigate celestial objects using data originating… Read more |
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Panning and Zooming the Observable Universe with Prefix-Matching Indices and Pixel-Based Overlays
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani April 14, 2012 - April 15, 2012 IEEE LDAV'12 Best-Paper Runner-Up (Honorable Mention) We introduce a web-based, client-server computing infrastructure to assist the interactive… Read more |
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Articulate: Creating Meaningful Visualizations from Natural Language
Kang B. Sun, Yiwen Sun March 18, 2012 While many visualization tools exist that offer sophisticated functions for charting complex data, synthesizing various information and deriving… Read more |
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A Simultaneous 2D / 3D Autostereo Workstation
Brad McGinnis, Dennis Chau, Jason Leigh, Jonas Talandis, Michael E. Papka, Tom Peterka February 28, 2012 We present a novel immersive workstation environment that scientists can use for 3D data exploration and as their everyday 2D computer monitor. Our… Read more |
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Visualization of Large-Scale Distributed Data
January 1, 2012 The primary goal of visualization is insight. An effective visualization is best achieved through the creation of a proper representation of data and… Read more |
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Interactive Exploration of Stress Tensors Used in Computational Turbulent Combustion
G. Elisabeta Marai January 1, 2012 Simulation and modeling of turbulent flow, and of turbulent reacting flow in particular, involves solving for and analyzing time-dependent and… Read more |
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Future World
December 5, 2011 On a sunny August afternoon undergraduates are perusing the tables arranged around the East Campus, learning about clubs and groups to join, while… Read more |
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Pixel-based Overlays for Navigating a Galaxy of Observations
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani October 23, 2011 - October 28, 2011 There is an incoming flood of information to the Astronomy community with the development of new telescopes. Over the next decade the amount of… Read more |
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RuleBender: integrated modeling, simulation and visualization for rule-based intracellular biochemistry
G. Elisabeta Marai October 23, 2011 - October 24, 2011 Background: Rule-based modeling (RBM) is a powerful and increasingly popular approach to modeling cell signaling networks. However, novel visual… Read more |
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The OmegaDesk: Towards A Hybrid 2D & 3D Work Desk
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Brad McGinnis, Dennis Chau, Jakub Misterka, Jason Leigh, Victor Mateevitsi September 26, 2011 - September 28, 2011 OmegaDesk is a device that allows for seamless interaction between 2D and 3D content. In order to develop this hybrid device, a new form of Operating… Read more |
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Human Augmentics: Augmenting Human Evolution
Jason Leigh, Robert V. Kenyon August 30, 2011 - September 3, 2011 Human Augmentics (HA) refers to technologies for expanding the capabilities, and characteristics of humans. One can think of Human Augmentics as the… Read more |
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SUB-ICE EXPLORATION OF AN ANTARCTIC LAKE: RESULTS FROM THE ENDURANCE PROJECT
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Eric He August 21, 2011 - August 24, 2011 The ENDURANCE autonomous underwater vehicle was developed and deployed to explore and map a unique environment: the waters of Lake Bonney in Taylor… Read more |
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Visualizing the Evolution of Community Structures in Dynamic Social Networks
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Khairi Reda, Laura Wolf May 31, 2011 - June 3, 2011 Social network analysis is the study of patterns of interaction between social entities. The field is attracting increasing attention from diverse… Read more |
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Immersive Empathic Design for Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Eric He, Yi Chen, Yu-Chung Chen May 11, 2011 In this dissertation I propose the “immersive empathic design” approach for interdisciplinary collaborations. It is hard to design a… Read more |
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Tensor Visualization in Computational Turbulent Combustion: A Case Study
G. Elisabeta Marai October 1, 2010 Simulation and modeling of turbulent flow involve solving for and analyzing time-dependent and spatially dense tensor quantities, such as turbulent… Read more |
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Open Surgery Training Simulator Using Haptics and Augmented Reality Technologies
Cristian J. Luciano September 1, 2010 This thesis focuses on the research and development of a novel Haptics-based Augmented Reality system that is able to realistically simulate open… Read more |
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Articulate: A Semi-automated Model for Translating Natural Language Queries into Meaningful Visualizations
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jung-Min Lee, Kang B. Sun, Sangyoon Lee, Yiwen Sun June 24, 2010 - June 26, 2010 While many visualization tools exist that offer sophisticated functions for charting complex data, they still expect users to possess a high degree… Read more |
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Distributed Volume Rendering for Scalable High-Resolution Display Arrays
Jason Leigh, Nicholas Schwarz May 17, 2010 - May 21, 2010 GRAPP 2010 Website This work presents a distributed image-order volume rendering approach for scalable high-resolution displays. This approach… Read more |
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Ultrascale Collaborative Visualization Using a Display-Rich Global Cyberinfrastructure
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Ratko Jagodic, Sungwon Nam May 1, 2010 - June 1, 2010 The Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) is high-performance graphics middleware that enables ultrascale collaborative visualization using a… Read more |
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Case Study - Designing An Advanced Visualization System for Geological Core Drilling Expeditions
Andrew Johnson, Eric He, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Jung-Min Lee, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Sungwon Nam, Yi Chen, Yu-Chung Chen April 10, 2010 - April 15, 2010 We present the design and process of an interactive high-resolution visualization system for diverse and distributed real-world geological core… Read more |
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New Integrated Data Analyses Software Components
Eric He, Yi Chen, Yu-Chung Chen April 1, 2010 Data management in scientific drilling programs such as the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), the International Continental Scientific… Read more |
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Haptic Interaction with Volumetric Datasets Using Surface-based Haptic Libraries
Cristian J. Luciano March 25, 2010 - March 26, 2010 An algorithm to provide haptic feedback directly from volumetric datasets is introduced in this paper. The algorithm is able to reproduce and extend… Read more |
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Multiapplication Intertile Synchronization on Ultra-High-Resolution Display Walls
Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Venkatram Vishwanath February 22, 2010 - February 23, 2010 Ultra-high-resolution tiled-display walls are typically driven by a cluster of computers. Each computer may drive one or more displays… Read more |
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Meridianus Divinitus
Hubert Weldon November 17, 2009 This document outlines the research, implementation, and aesthetic philosophies of Meridianus Divinitus. Meridianus Divinitus is an artistic… Read more |
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Remote Visualization of Large Scale Data for Ultra-High Resolution Display Environments
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam November 16, 2009 ParaView is one of the most widely used scientific tools that supports parallel visualization of large scale data. The Scalable Adaptive Graphics… Read more |
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Articulate: a Conversational Interface for Visual Analytics
Andrew Johnson, Dennis Chau, Jason Leigh, Kang B. Sun, Yiwen Sun October 11, 2009 - October 16, 2009 While many visualization tools exist that offer sophisticated functions for charting complex data, they still expect users to possess a high degree… Read more |
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SocioScape - a Tool for Interactive Exploration of Spatio-Temporal Group Dynamics in Social Networks
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Khairi Reda, Laura Wolf October 11, 2009 - October 16, 2009 We introduce SocioScape, an interactive tool for the visual exploration of spatially referenced, dynamic social networks. The tool combines a novel… Read more |
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Visualization Wall for OR of the Future
Jason Leigh, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown October 9, 2009 - October 10, 2009 The field of Surgery has seen two major paradigm shifts - from Open to Laparoscopic and then from Laparoscopic to Robotic. During this transition… Read more |
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Advances in Computer Displays (chapter)
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam October 1, 2009 Everything from image capture, modification, creation, and output, either on displays or on printers has been rapidly migrating from traditional… Read more |
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SocioScape - Spatio-temporal Visual Analysis of Group Dynamics in Social Networks
Khairi Reda July 16, 2009 This thesis presents SocioScape, an interactive visualization tool that embodies a methodology for the visual analysis of spatial and temporal group… Read more |
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Planetary-Scale Terrain Composition
Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Jason Leigh, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti April 16, 2009 Many inter-related planetary height map and surface image map data sets exist, and more data are collected each day. Broad communities of scientists… Read more |
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Design an Interactive Visualization System for Core Drilling Expeditions Using Immersive Empathic Method
Andrew Johnson, Eric He, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Jung-Min Lee, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Sungwon Nam, Yi Chen, Yu-Chung Chen April 4, 2009 - April 9, 2009 In this paper, we propose an immersive empathic design method and used it to create an interactive high-resolution core visualization system for… Read more |
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Visualizing Science: The OptIPuter Project
Alan Verlo, Byungil Jeong, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Robert Kooima, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Venkatram Vishwanath April 1, 2009 For many areas of science and engineering, visualization has become more than a convenient tool: it has become a necessity for interpreting the… Read more |
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Visualcasting: Scalable Real-time Image Distribution in Ultra-High Resolution Display Environments
Byungil Jeong March 19, 2009 Visualization has proven its value in scientific advances by helping scientists gain insight from their data and verify scientific computations. The… Read more |
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Applying Augmented Reality and Haptics to Evaluate Dynamic Prototypes of Mobile Devices
Cristian J. Luciano March 15, 2009 The current inability to realistically simulate and test dynamic user interfaces of mobile device prototypes is one of the prime limiting factors to… Read more |
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Haptics-based virtual reality periodontal training simulator
Cristian J. Luciano, Thomas A. DeFanti February 13, 2009 This paper focuses upon the research and development of a prototype dental simulator for training of periodontal procedures. By the use of virtual… Read more |
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The Rails Toolkit (RTK) - Enabling End-System Topology-Aware High End Computing
Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Venkatram Vishwanath December 7, 2008 - December 12, 2008 We present a novel rails approach so that future E-Science applications can effectively exploit future system architectures, including multi-core and… Read more |
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Towards Interactive Training with an Avatar-based Human-Computer Interface
Andrew Johnson, Gordon Carlson, Jason Leigh, Jung-Min Lee, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Steve Jones, Sungwon Nam December 1, 2008 - December 4, 2008 The development of avatars has significant potential to enhance realism, automation capability, and effectiveness across a variety of training… Read more |
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Scalable Adaptive Graphics middleware for visualization streaming and collaboration in ultra resolution display environments
Andrew Johnson, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Jung-Min Lee, Luc Renambot, Ratko Jagodic, Sangyoon Lee, Sungwon Nam November 16, 2008 This paper describes the motivation and capabilities of SAGE - the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment - a middleware and software client for… Read more |
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Planetary-scale Terrain Composition
Robert Kooima October 23, 2008 Many inter-related planetary height map and surface image map data sets exist, and more data are collected each day. Broad communities of scientists… Read more |
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The OptIPortal, a scalable visualization, storage, and computing interface device for the OptiPuter
Alan Verlo, Byungil Jeong, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Rajvikram Singh, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Venkatram Vishwanath September 26, 2008 The OptIPortal is a tiled display that is the visual interface to the OptIPuter, a global-scale computing system tied together by tens of gigabits of… Read more |
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Enabling High Resolution Collaborative Visualization in Display Rich Virtual Organizations
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam July 24, 2008 We predict that high-resolution displays will penetrate scientific laboratories first, and will become pervasive at the office, in the cubicle, and… Read more |
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Global Cyber-Commons: Collaborative, Instructional Environments
for the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering Andrew Johnson, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Steve Jones, Sungwon Nam, Tom Moher June 28, 2008 The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and several of its collaborators are already putting in place a… Read more |
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Real-time Digital Dome Rendering Techniques and Technologies
Arun Rao, Robert Kooima June 27, 2008 - July 2, 2008 Multi-projector digital dome systems are becoming commonplace, but real-time software to drive them is not. The majority of digital dome content is… Read more |
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Learning And Participation In A Persistent Whole-Classroom Seismology Simulation
Eric He, Tom Moher June 24, 2008 - June 28, 2008 |
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Enhancing Core Drilling Workflows through Advanced Visualization Technology
Andrew Johnson, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Yi Chen, Yu-Chung Chen June 11, 2008 - June 13, 2008 We present the design and development of Corelyzer, an initial visual core description tool with collaboration and annotation features. Corelyzer… Read more |
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Rain Table: Scalable Architecture for Group-Oriented Visualization of Real-Time Geoscience Phenomena
Dmitri Svistula May 1, 2008 Rain Table is an application for large-scale interactive 2D particle-based simulation and visualization on scalable high-resolution tiled displays… Read more |
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OptiStore: An On-Demand Data Processing Middleware for Very Large Scale Interactive Visualization
Charles Zhang May 1, 2008 OptiStore is an on-demand data processing middleware for extremely large scale interactive visualization applications. It aims to develop a data… Read more |
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PACE: A Framework for Personalized Visualization and Scalable Human Computer Interaction
Xun Luo May 1, 2008 Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated virtual environment (VE). Since its inception it has… Read more |
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WallCology: Designing Interaction Affordances for Learner Engagement in Authentic Science Inquiry
Brian Uphoff, Darshan Bhatt, Eric He, Peter Malcolm, Tom Moher April 5, 2008 - April 10, 2008 The broadening array of technologies available to support the design of classroom activity has the potential to reshape science learning in schools… Read more |
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How to ‘Catch’ a Virus: Representational Affordances in a Middle-School Introduction to Nanoscale Self-Assembly
Eric He, Marco Bernasconi, Tom Moher March 25, 2008 - March 27, 2008 |
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Instructional Framing for Nanoscale Self-Assembly Design in Middle School: A Pilot Study
Eric He, Tom Moher March 25, 2008 - March 27, 2008 |
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WallCology: Studying Ecology using a Distributed, Persistent Virtual Ecosystem in the Classroom
Brian Uphoff, Darshan Bhatt, Eric He, Peter Malcolm, Tom Moher March 25, 2008 - March 27, 2008 This paper introduces a system for studying ecology that places a virtual ecosystem within the walls of a classroom. WallCology is designed to give… Read more |
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Cyber-Commons: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds
Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown January 1, 2008 - January 31, 2008 Cyber-mashups of very large data sets let users explore, analyze, and comprehend the science behind the information being streamed. As longtime… Read more |
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Distributed Volume Rendering of Very Large Data on High-Resolution Scalable Displays
Nicholas Schwarz October 29, 2007 This thesis presents a methodology for rendering very large volume data on scalable high-resolution displays using a distributed-memory cluster. The… Read more |
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Passing Excellence, The Interactive Art Visualization Of the Kizhi Ensemble
Daria Tsoupikova, Robert Kooima October 1, 2007 - October 6, 2007 This paper describes the development of an artistic visualization project that restores the architectural history of the world famous wood churches… Read more |
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Automating the Extraction of 3D Models from Medical Images for Virtual Reality and Haptic Simulations
Cristian J. Luciano September 22, 2007 - September 25, 2007 The Sensimmer platform represents our ongoing research on simultaneous haptics and graphics rendering of 3D models. For simulation of medical and… Read more |
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GPU-based elastic-object deformation for enhancement of existing haptic applications
Cristian J. Luciano September 22, 2007 - September 25, 2007 Most haptic libraries allow user to feel the resistance of a flexible virtual object by the implementation of a point-based collision detection… Read more |
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Development of Display Environment for LASCO, EIT and SECCHI
Cole Krumbholz, Heejoo Kim, Janet Kim, Jason Leigh, Tae Jin Kim July 10, 2007 Researchers in the Solar Physics Branch at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have been involved in observational and theoretical studies of the solar… Read more |
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A Learning Progression to Effectively Implement Virtual Reality as an Educational Tool for K-12 Nanoscience Education
Eric He, John Bell, Tom Moher June 24, 2007 - June 27, 2007 Nanoscience and engineering are the wave of the future, and nanoscience education is key to developing the next generation of innovative developers… Read more |
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Emerging from the CAVE: Collaboration in Ultra High Resolution Environments
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Cole Krumbholz, Dmitri Svistula, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Ratko Jagodic, Robert Kooima, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka June 14, 2007 - June 15, 2007 Low-cost computing, displays and networking is making it possible to create collaboration environments that are truly able to bridge distance. This… Read more |
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Real-Time Compression For High-Resolution Content
Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam May 14, 2007 - May 16, 2007 Higher resolution content is collected or generated everyday by domain scientists, such as remote sensing imagery, large scale simulations and… Read more |
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A Point-Based Remote Visualization Pipeline For Large-Scale Virtual Reality
Jinghua Ge May 1, 2007 Jinghua Ge’s PH.D. Dissertation - Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer… Read more |
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Collaborative Visualization Architecture in Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment
Byungil Jeong April 26, 2007 - April 27, 2007 As scalable high-resolution displays have become increasingly prevalent and networking is diminishing in cost at a rate exceeding that of computing… Read more |
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Dynallax: Dynamic Parallax Barrier Autostereoscopic Display
Tom Peterka April 23, 2007 Tom Peterka’s PH.D. Dissertation - Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer… Read more |
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Classroom Space, Classroom Time, and the Representation of Dynamic Phenomena
Eric He, Tom Moher April 9, 2007 - April 13, 2007 Over the past three years, we have defined and begun to explore the affordances of a design framework that we call Embedded Phenomena, intended to… Read more |
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Size-Constancy in the CAVE
Daniel J. Sandin, Robert V. Kenyon, Thomas A. DeFanti April 1, 2007 - April 30, 2007 The use of virtual environments (VE) for many research and commercial purposes relies on its ability to generate environments that faithfully… Read more |
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The Effects of Scene Complexity, Stereovision, and Motion Parallax on Size Constancy in a Virtual Environment
Daniel J. Sandin, Robert V. Kenyon, Thomas A. DeFanti, Xun Luo March 10, 2007 - March 14, 2007 In this paper, the effects of three visual factors: scene complexity, stereovision and motion parallax on correct perception of a virtual… Read more |
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Real-Time Neural Network-based Face Tracker for VR Displays
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka March 10, 2007 - March 14, 2007 Tracking technology for Virtual Reality (VR) applications typically requires the user to wear head-mounted sensors with transmitters or wires. This… Read more |
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Dynallax: Solid State Dynamic Parallax Barrier Autostereoscopic VR Display
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka March 10, 2007 - March 14, 2007 A novel barrier strip autostereoscopic (AS) display is demonstrated using a solid-state dynamic parallax barrier. A dynamic barrier mitigates… Read more |
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A GPU Sub-pixel Algorithm for Autostereoscopic Virtual Reality
Daniel J. Sandin, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka March 10, 2007 - March 14, 2007 Autostereoscopic displays enable unencumbered immersive virtual reality, but at a significant computational expense. This expense impacts the… Read more |
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Evolution of the Varrier™ Autostereoscopic VR Display: 2001-2007
Daniel J. Sandin, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka January 28, 2007 - February 1, 2007 Autostereoscopy (AS) is an increasingly valuable virtual reality (VR) display technology; indeed, the IS&T / SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference… Read more |
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CytoViz: an Artistic Mapping of Network Measurements as Living Organisms in a VR Application
Brenda Lopez Silva, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam January 28, 2007 - February 1, 2007 CytoViz is an artistic, real-time information visualization driven by statistical information gathered during gigabit network transfers to the… Read more |
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Passing Excellence
Daria Tsoupikova January 28, 2007 - February 1, 2007 This paper describes the research and development of a virtual reality visualization project “Passing excellence” about the world famous… Read more |
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High-Performance Dynamic Graphics Streaming for Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Julieta Aguilera, Luc Renambot, Rajvikram Singh, Ratko Jagodic, Sungwon Nam November 11, 2006 - November 17, 2006 The Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) is specialized middleware for enabling data, high-definition video and extremely high-resolution… Read more |
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GeoWall: Stereoscopic Visualization for Geoscience Research and Education
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh November 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006 In 2001 the GeoWall project began with a question: Could we create an affordable (<$10,000) version of our existing CAVE® hardware and… Read more |
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Special issue on the International Grid (iGrid) 2005 Workshop
Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti October 1, 2006 - October 31, 2006 Larry Smarr, Maxine Brown, Tom DeFanti and Cees de Laat (guest editors), Special issue on the International Grid (iGrid) 2005 Workshop. For more… Read more |
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LambdaBridge: A Scalable Architecture for Future Generation Terabit Applications
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Eric He, Fang Wang, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Muxuan Wang, Ratko Jagodic, Sungwon Nam, Venkatram Vishwanath, Xi Wang October 1, 2006 - October 5, 2006 LambdaGrid applications as typified by data-intensive collaborative visualization are likely to be the first users of terabit-level networking. This… Read more |
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The Global Lambda Visualization Facility: An International Ultra-High-Definition Wide-Area Visualization Collaboratory
Alan Verlo, Andrew Johnson, Brenda Lopez Silva, Byungil Jeong, Daniel J. Sandin, Dmitri Svistula, Fang Wang, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Julieta Aguilera, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Muxuan Wang, Nicholas Schwarz, Rajvikram Singh, Ratko Jagodic, Robert Kooima, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka, Venkatram Vishwanath, Xi Wang October 1, 2006 - October 31, 2006 The research outlined in this paper marks an initial global cooperative effort between visualization and collaboration researchers to build a… Read more |
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Personal Varrier: Autostereoscopic Virtual Reality for Distributed Scientific Visualization
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Marcus Thiebaux, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka October 1, 2006 - October 31, 2006 As scientific data sets increase in size, dimensionality, and complexity, new high resolution, interactive, collaborative networked display systems… Read more |
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Modeling and Visualizing the Particle Beam in the Rare Isotope Accelerator
Chris Rosenthal, Sally Rosenthal September 1, 2006 Argonne National Laboratory is actively pursuing research and design for a Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) facility that will aid basic research in… Read more |
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Visualcasting - Scalable Real-Time Image Distribution in Ultra-High Resolution Display Environments
Byungil Jeong July 15, 2006 - May 15, 2007 The Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) is a specialized middleware that enables real-time streaming of extremely high-resolution graphics… Read more |
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Corelyzer: Scalable Geologic Core Visualization using OSX, Java and OpenGL
Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Jung-Min Lee, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Sungwon Nam, Yi Chen, Yu-Chung Chen July 8, 2006 - August 11, 2006 Ice cores drilled from lake and ocean floors, continents, and ice sheets provide geoscientists with the most extensive and accurate picture of the… Read more |
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Tangible User Interface Testing on the LambdaTable: A High Resolution Tiled LCD Tabletop
Arun Rao, Cole Krumbholz, Robert Kooima July 1, 2006 - July 30, 2006 This paper presents the LambdaTable, a tabletop display that employs tiled LCD monitors to significantly improve resolution over single display or… Read more |
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HelioRoom: Problem-solving in a whole class visual simulation
Darren Thompson, Eric He, Tom Moher June 1, 2006 HelioRoom simulates the orbital motion of the planets in the Solar system on a set of synchronized computer displays situated on the walls of the… Read more |
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PAVIS - Pervasive Adaptive Visualization and Interaction Service
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Javid Alimohideen, Luc Renambot, Robert L. Grossman April 22, 2006 - April 27, 2006 Prior research efforts have focused on the development of techniques for rule-based automated generation of either visualizations or user-interfaces… Read more |
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Collaborative Visualization using High-Resolution Tiled Displays
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Julieta Aguilera, Luc Renambot, Ratko Jagodic, Sungwon Nam April 22, 2006 - April 27, 2006 We envision situation-rooms and research laboratories in which all the walls are made from seamless ultra-high-resolution displays fed by data… Read more |
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RoomBugs: Simulating Insect Infestations in Elementary Classrooms using Commodity Hardware
Eric He, Jim Barr, Tom Moher April 22, 2006 - April 27, 2006 This paper presents research on a collaborative learning envrionment in an urban elementary science classroom. The application, called RoomBugs… Read more |
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UNFOLDING SPACE
Thesis Project Documentation Julieta Aguilera April 14, 2006 UNFOLDING SPACE is a VR enveloping landscape of concave and convex forms, which are determined by the orientation and displacement of the user in… Read more |
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Co-Present Distributed Simulations of Science Phenomena for K-8 Learners: A Technology Designers’ Round-Robin Symposium
Eric He, Jinghua Ge, Tom Moher, Zhongwei Qui April 7, 2006 - April 11, 2006 Focus and organization of the symposium While the personal computer (and by implication the individual learner) continues to be the target platform… Read more |
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RoomQuake: Learning, Self-Concept, and Growth of a Community of Practice in a Persistent Whole-Classroom Simulation
Darren Thompson, Eric He, Jim Barr, Tom Moher April 1, 2006 This paper presents the results of a six-week unit on seismology conducted in a fifth-grade classroom. The unique feature of the unit involved the… Read more |
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Second Generation Haptic Ventriculostomy Simulator Using the ImmersiveTouch™ System
Cristian J. Luciano January 24, 2006 - January 27, 2006 Ventriculostomy is a neurosurgical procedure that consists of the insertion of a catheter into the ventricles of the brain for relieving the… Read more |
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Virtual Reality and the Unfolding of Higher Dimensions
Julieta Aguilera January 15, 2006 - January 19, 2006 As virtual / augmented reality evolves, the need for spaces that are responsive to structures independent from three dimensional spatial constraints… Read more |
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CoreWall: A Scalable Interactive Tool for Visual Core Description, Data Visualization, and Stratigraphic Correlation
Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam December 5, 2005 A primary need for studies of sediment, ice and rock cores is an integrated environment for visual core description. CoreWall is a tool that uses… Read more |
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Lambda Table: High Resolution Tiled Display Table for Interacting with Large Visualizations
Andrew Johnson, Cole Krumbholz, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Robert Kooima, Sungwon Nam September 8, 2005 - September 9, 2005 To explore new methods of interaction with large scientific datasets, we have developed a high resolution visualization table. This system merges… Read more |
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TransLight, a Major US Component of the GLIF
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High-Performance Scalable Graphics Architecture for High-Resolution Displays
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Rajvikram Singh, Sungwon Nam May 1, 2005 We present the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE), a graphics streaming architecture for supporting collaborative scientific visualization… Read more |
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CrEdit: Tele-Immersive Cranial Impant Design in a Haptic Augmented Reality Environment
Chris Scharver May 1, 2005 Repairing severe human skull injuries requires customized cranial implants, and current visualization research aims to develop a new approach to… Read more |
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Embedding Dynamic Phenomena within the Physical Space of an Elementary School Classroom
Eric He, Tom Moher April 2, 2005 - April 7, 2005 Authentic practice in science requires access to phenomena. In this paper, we introduce RoomQuake, an application designed to foster the growth of a… Read more |
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Distributed Volume Rendering of Global Models of Seismic Wave Propagation
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Nicholas Schwarz, Sungwon Nam December 13, 2004 - December 17, 2004 Modeling the dynamics and structure of the Earth’s interior now routinely involves massively distributed computational techniques, which makes… Read more |
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High resolution visualization of USArray data on a 50 megapixel display using OptIPuter technologies
Andrew Johnson, Atul Nayak, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti December 13, 2004 - December 17, 2004 A 50 megapixel display wall is under construction at the Cecil H. & Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) for the… Read more |
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CoreWall: A Visualization Environment for the Analysis of Lake and Ocean Cores
Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam December 12, 2004 A primary need for studies of sediment and rock cores is an integrated environment for visual core description. Digital line-scan images of… Read more |
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Vol-a-Tile - a Tool for Interactive Exploration of Large Volumetric Data on Scalable Tiled Displays
Andrew Johnson, Atul Nayak, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Nicholas Schwarz, Shalini Venkataraman, Sungwon Nam, Venkatram Vishwanath October 10, 2004 - October 15, 2004 We present the current state of Vol-a-Tile, an interactive tool for exploring large volumetric data on scalable tiled displays. Vol-a-Tile presents a… Read more |
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JuxtaView - a Tool for Interactive Visualization of Large Imagery on Scalable Tiled Displays
Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Shalini Venkataraman, Sungwon Nam, Venkatram Vishwanath September 20, 2004 - September 23, 2004 JuxtaView is a cluster-based application for viewing ultra-high-resolution images on scalable tiled displays. We present in JuxtaView, a new parallel… Read more |
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Design of Awareness Interface for Distributed Teams in Display-rich Advanced Collaboration Environment
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Yongjoo Cho September 5, 2004 - September 9, 2004 This paper discusses design issues for enhancing awareness among distributed teams in the display-rich advanced collaboration environments. We… Read more |
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Haptics-Based Virtual Reality Periodontal Training Simulator
Cristian J. Luciano September 1, 2004 - October 1, 2006 The haptics-based virtual reality periodontal training simulator project focuses upon the research and development of a prototype dental simulator… Read more |
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Designing Cranial Implants in a Haptic Augmented Reality Environment
Andrew Johnson, Chris Scharver, Jason Leigh August 1, 2004 - August 31, 2004 ACM Copyright rules prohibit putting the PDF on our website. Please follow the links below to review or purchase the article. “Designing… Read more |
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Transitive: Immersive Visualization of Real Time Network Transfers
Brenda Lopez Silva April 30, 2004 - August 30, 2004 Processing data for print and other static media may employ numerous design, digital and analog steps along the way; but the final product is dated… Read more |
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Realistic Cross-Platform Haptic Applications Using Freely-Available Libraries
Cristian J. Luciano, Thomas A. DeFanti March 1, 2004 This paper describes the development of a generic framework for implementing realistic cross-platform haptic virtual reality applications. Currently… Read more |
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Visualizing Seismic Wave Propagation
Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Nicholas Schwarz, Shalini Venkataraman, Sungwon Nam December 8, 2003 - December 12, 2003 An accurate understanding of the propagation of seismic waves in the Earth is of fundamental importance for Earth Scientists at any level. Wave… Read more |
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Using 3D Glyph Visualization to Explore Real-time Seismic Data on Immersive and High-resolution Display Systems
Andrew Johnson, Atul Nayak, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot December 7, 2003 - December 12, 2003 The study of time-dependent, three-dimensional natural phenomena like earthquakes can be enhanced with innovative and pertinent 3D computer graphics… Read more |
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A Layered Architecture Supporting The Collaborative Design Of Virtual Environments For Science Inquiry
Yongjoo Cho October 1, 2003 YoungJoo Cho’s PH.D. Dissertation - Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer… Read more |
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TeraScope: Distributed Visual Data Mining of Terascale Data Sets over Photonic Networks
Brent Grossman, Charles Zhang, Jason Leigh, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman, Thomas A. DeFanti August 1, 2003 TeraScope is a framework and a suite of tools for interactively browsing and visualizing large terascale data sets. Unique to TeraScope is its… Read more |
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Kites flying in and out of space - distributed physically based art on the grid
Jason Leigh, Shalini Venkataraman, Tom Coffin August 1, 2003 In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a Virtual Reality (VR) art piece - “Kites flying in and out of space” that… Read more |
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An Experimental OptIPuter Architecture for Data-Intensive Collaborative Visualization
Atul Nayak, Charles Zhang, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Rajvikram Singh, Shalini Venkataraman, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti June 22, 2003 This paper describes the OptIPuter’s networking model and the visualization tools that are being developed to take advantage of the model. The… Read more |
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3rd Biennial International Grid Applications-driven Testbed Event, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 23-26 September 2002
Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti June 1, 2003 iGrid 2002: The International Virtual Laboratory Editorial iGrid 2002, The Third Biennial International Grid Applications-driven Testbed Event held… Read more |
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WiggleView : Visualizing Large Seismic Datasets
Andrew Johnson, Atul Nayak, Eric He, Jason Leigh December 6, 2002 - December 10, 2002 Wiggleview is a tool for visualizing seismic data collected from a worldwide network of seismometers. The visualization consists of overlaying… Read more |
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Teleimmersion and Visualization with the OptIPuter
Charles Zhang, Daniel J. Sandin, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Javid Alimohideen, Maxine Brown, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Rajvikram Singh, Robert L. Grossman, Thomas A. DeFanti December 3, 2002 - December 6, 2002 *Appears in Telecommunication, Teleimmersion and Telexistence, (Susumu Tachi, editor), Ohmsha / IOS Press, 2003, pp. 25-71. The OptIPuter is a… Read more |
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TeraVision: a High Resolution Graphics Streaming Device for Amplified Collaboration Environments
Jason Leigh, Rajvikram Singh, Thomas A. DeFanti November 1, 2002 - December 24, 2003 One of the common problems faced in amplified collaboration environments (ACEs), such as the Continuum, is termed the “Display Pushing”… Read more |
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iGrid2002 The International Virtual Laboratory
Maxine Brown September 23, 2002 - September 26, 2002 iGrid 2002, the 3rd biennial International Grid applications-driven testbed event, challenges scientists and technologists to utilize multi-gigabit… Read more |
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Griz: Experience with Remote Visualization over an Optical Grid
Jinghua Ge, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam September 23, 2002 - September 26, 2002 This paper describes the experiments of remote rendering over an intercontinental optical network during the iGrid2002 conference in Amsterdam from… Read more |
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Reconstructing Chavín de Huántar (Peru): Designing an Educational Tool for Art Historians
Marientina Gotsis October 25, 2001 - October 27, 2001 This paper discusses the process of reconstructing a unique and remote site such as Chavín de Huántar in Peru, focusing on the choices… Read more |
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Tele-Immersive Collaboration in the CAVE® Research Network (chapter)
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh January 1, 2001 In this chapter we will discuss our work to enable effective collaboration between remote participants within immersive virtual reality environments… Read more |
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Virtual Manufacturing
January 1, 2001 Excerpt from Virtual Manufacturing With the advent of high-resolution graphics, high-speed computing, and user interaction devices, virtual reality… Read more |
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Lessons Learned from Employing Multiple Perspectives In a Collaborative Virtual Environment for Visualizing Scientific Data
Abhinav Kapoor, HyeYun Park, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Soyon Park September 10, 2000 - September 12, 2000 This paper explores the concept of multiple perspectives to enhance collaboration by allowing remote participants to tailor their views… Read more |
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iGrid2000 Empowering Global Research Community Networking
Maxine Brown July 18, 2000 - July 21, 2000 iGrid 2000, the International Grid, demonstrates how the power of today’s research networks enables access to remote computing resources… Read more |
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The Tele-Immersive Data Explorer: A Distributed Architecture for Collaborative Interactive Visualization of Large Data-sets
Andrew Johnson, Brent Grossman, Chris Scharver, Jason Leigh, John Hart, Nikita Sawant, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman June 19, 2000 - June 20, 2000 There exists a number of scientific visualization systems designed to provide a two-dimensional interface to the user. However, little consideration… Read more |
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Collaborative VisualEyes
Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown June 19, 2000 - June 20, 2000 Collaborative VisualEyes is the latest version of VisualEyes - the virtual reality systems used by Genreal Motors since 1993. Internaly developed… Read more |
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Exploiting Multiple Perspectives in Tele-Immersion
Abhinav Kapoor, Chris Scharver, HyeYun Park, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Soyon Park June 19, 2000 - June 20, 2000 The work in this paper describes a preliminary observational study conducted on users of CAVE6D, a collaborative CAVE-based virtual reality tool for… Read more |
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The Tele-Immersive Data Explorer (TIDE): A Distributed Architecture for Tele-immersive Scientific Visualization
Nikita Sawant May 1, 2000 Visualization is the key methodology that gives the researcher insight into data that may be generated from various sources such as computational… Read more |
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Virtual Reality Vitrectomy Simulator
Paul Neumann May 1, 2000 Paul Neumann’s PH.D. Dissertation - Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer… Read more |
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A Methodology for Supporting Collaborative Exploratory Analysis of Massive Data Sets in Tele-Immersive Environments
Andrew Johnson, Brent Grossman, Jason Leigh, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman, Thomas A. DeFanti August 3, 1999 - August 6, 1999 This paper proposes a methodology for employing collaborative, immersive virtual environments as a high-end visualization interface for massive… Read more |
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A Tele-Immersive Environment for Collaborative Exploratory Analysis of Massive Data Sets
Andrew Johnson, Brent Grossman, Jason Leigh, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman, Thomas A. DeFanti June 15, 1999 - June 17, 1999 This is a white paper outlining a methodology for employing collaborative, immersive virutal environments as a high-end visualization interface for… Read more |
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TeleImmersive Virtual Environments for Collaborative Knowledge Discovery
Andrew Johnson, Eric He, Jason Leigh April 11, 1999 - April 15, 1999 This paper describes the design and implementation of two tele-immersive applications, CVD and CAVE6D, both designed to support collaborative… Read more |
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The Use of Collaborative Virtual Environments in the Mine Countermeasures Mission
Abhinav Kapoor, Andrew Johnson, Eric He, Jason Leigh April 5, 1999 - April 9, 1999 We describe our work on the development and use of collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) in support of very shallow water mine remediation… Read more |
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A Review of Tele-Immersive Applications in the CAVE® Research Network
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti March 13, 1999 - March 17, 1999 This paper presents an overview of the Tele-Immersion applications that have been built by collaborators around the world using the CAVERNsoft… Read more |
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Multi-disciplinary Experiences with CAVERNsoft Tele-Immersive Applications
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti November 18, 1998 - November 20, 1998 CAVERNsoft is an architecture for creating Tele-Immersive applications, with the goal of making synchronous and asynchronous trans-oceanic… Read more |
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LIMBO / VTK: A Tool for Rapid Tele-Immersive Visualization
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti October 18, 1998 - October 23, 1998 This “Late Breaking Hot Topic Paper” describes the LIMBO / VTK a tool that allows developers to quickly build collaborative visualization… Read more |
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Preliminary STAR TAP℠ Tele-Immersion Experiments between Chicago and Singapore
Andrew Johnson, HyeYun Park, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Robert V. Kenyon, Soyon Park, Thomas A. DeFanti September 22, 1998 Preliminary STAR TAP℠ Tele-Immersion Experiments between Chicago and Singapore. Read more |
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Application Experiences with the Globus Toolkit
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh July 28, 1998 - July 31, 1998 Application Experiences with the Globus Toolkit. Read more |
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Virtual Great Barrier Reef: A Theoretical Approach Towards an Evolving, Interactive VR Environment Using a Distributed DOME and CAVE® System
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti July 1, 1998 - July 3, 1998 The Australian Great Barrier Reef is a natural wonder of our world and a registered UNESCO World Heritage site hosting 1.5 million visitor-days in… Read more |
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Global Tele-Immersion: Better than Being There
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti December 3, 1997 - December 5, 1997 The term Tele-Immersion was first used in October 1996 as the title of a workshop the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of… Read more |
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Issues in the Design of a Flexible Distributed Architecture for Supporting Persistence and Interoperablility in Collaborative Virtual Environments
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti November 15, 1997 - November 21, 1997 CAVERN, the CAVE Research Network, is an alliance of industrial and research institutions equipped with CAVE-based virtual reality hardware and… Read more |
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Seeing is Believing: Visual Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem
Daniel Davidson, Louis H. Kauffman July 1, 1997 - August 1, 1997 The Pythagorean theorem states that for any right triangle the area of the smallest square (AxA) plus (+) the area of the middle sized square (BxB)… Read more |
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Supporting Transcontinental Collaborative Work in Persistent Virtual Environments
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh July 1, 1996 One of the current long term goals at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) is to create a persistent virtual environment enabling multiple… Read more |
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Toward Real-time Interactive Virtual Prototyping of Mechanical Systems: Experiences Coupling Virtual Reality with Finite Element Anaylsis
Eric He, Michael E. Papka, Milana Huang, Terry Disz, Yi Chen, Yu-Chung Chen April 1, 1996 Virtual prototyping involves a synthesis of engineering methodology and immersive, three-dimensional visualization technology. Ideally, this is a… Read more |
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High-Resolution and High-Bandwidth Immersive Interactivity
Daniel J. Sandin, Gary Lindahl, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti February 1, 1996 The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) specializes in virtual reality (VR) and scientific… Read more |
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Overview of the I-WAY: Wide Area Visual Supercomputing
Michael E. Papka, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 1996 This paper discusses the I-WAY project and provides an overview of the papers in this issue of IJSA. The I-WAY is an experimental environment for… Read more |
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Virtual Environments and Distributed Computing at SC’95
Maxine Brown December 1, 1995 The annual Supercomputing conference provides computational scientists and engineers with a global forum for showcasing their research. Scientists… Read more |
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Parallel Progressive Refinement and Projection Based Discontinuity Meshing for Radiosity
Gideon Goldman, Jon Goldman August 1, 1995 This dissertation presents algorithms and techniques that are applicable to the radiosity method for computer graphics. First, radiosity and relevant… Read more |
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SANDBOX: Scientists Accessing Necessary Data Based On eXperimentation
Andrew Johnson July 1, 1995 The SANDBOX (Scientists Accessing Necessary Data Based On eXperimentation) is a virtual reality tool allowing an investigator to visualize the… Read more |
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Using the CAVE Virtual-Reality Environment as an Aid to 3-D Electronmagnet Field Computation
Michael E. Papka, Milana Huang July 1, 1995 One of the major problems in three-dimensional field computation is visualizing the resulting 3-D field distributions. A virtual reality environment… Read more |
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Data Retrieval Through Virtual Experimentation
Andrew Johnson June 1, 1995 In this paper we describe a new interface to scientific databases, the SANDBOX: Scientists Accessing Necessary Data Based On eXperimentation. The… Read more |
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Virtual Reality and Accessible Transit Design: New Access Methods Project
Drew Browning June 1, 1995 With the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) public transit agencies such as the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) are obligated to… Read more |
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Integrating Virtual Reality and High Performance Computing and Communications for Real-Time Molecular Modeling
Alan Cruz, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Thomas A. DeFanti April 1, 1995 This paper describes using virtual reality technologies for the development and exploration of High Performance Computing and Communications… Read more |
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The Cosmic Worm in the CAVE®: Steering a High Performance Computing Application from a Virtual Environment
Alan Cruz, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Trina Roy April 1, 1995 Developing graphical interfaces to steer high performance scientific computations has been a research subject in recent years. Now, computational… Read more |
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Virtual Reality Visualization of Accelerator Magnets
Michael E. Papka, Milana Huang, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 1995 One of the major problems in three-dimensional field computation is visualizing the resulting 3-D field distributions. A virtual reality environment… Read more |
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Interactive Visualization in a High Performance Computing Virtual Environment
Thomas A. DeFanti, Trina Roy January 1, 1995 An intuitive means of controlling numerical simulations can be achieved by integrating virtual environments with High Performance Computing (HPC)… Read more |
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The SANDBOX: A Virtual Reality Interface to Scientific Databases
Andrew Johnson September 1, 1994 Much of the data that is stored in scientific databases is collected through experimentation. In this paper we propose a new interface to scientific… Read more |
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SIGGRAPH ’94 Visual Proceedings
Kathy Tanaka, Lucy Petrovich, Maxine Brown July 1, 1994 Attendees of SIGGRAPH 94 experienced the actual use and future direction of scientific visualization in computational science and engineering in… Read more |
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Cosmic Worm
Gideon Goldman, Jon Goldman, Trina Roy July 1, 1994 Sometimes scientists would like to stick their heads into interesting parts of their data sets and look around, but they are hampered by the… Read more |
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Virtual Reality in Computational Neuroscience
Brent Grossman, Christina Vasilakis, Jason Leigh, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman, Thomas A. DeFanti June 1, 1994 This paper discusses the development, visualization and exploration of computational neuroscience virtual reality applications in the CAVE Virtual… Read more |
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SANDBOX: An Interface to Scientific Data Based on Experimentation
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti May 30, 1994 - June 1, 1994 Scientific databases contain very large amounts of data accessed by investigators from many disciplines. In this paper, we propose a new interface to… Read more |
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The GENESIS Simulator-based Neuronal Modeling Database
Brent Grossman, Jason Leigh, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman, Thomas A. DeFanti February 1, 1994 This paper presents a multidisciplinary collaboration between neurobiologists, databases, visualization and human / computer interaction specialists… Read more |
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Scientists in Wonderland: A Report on Visualization Applications in the CAVE™ Virtual Reality Environment
Alan Cruz, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Christina Vasilakis, Craig Barnes, Daniel J. Sandin, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Lewis Siegel, Michael E. Papka, Randy Hudson (1951-2020), Roger Engelman, Steven Cohen, Sumit Das, Thomas A. DeFanti October 1, 1993 Traditional computer graphics has typically required that scientists look through a restricted window (the computer screen), to view images that… Read more |
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Realistic Modeling of Brain Structures with Remote Interaction Between Simulations of an Inferior Olivary Neuron and a Cerebellar Purkinje Cell
Jason Leigh, Jung-Min Lee, Sangyoon Lee, Thomas A. DeFanti March 1, 1993 This publication documents the collaborative work between the Computational Neuroscience Lab at CALTECH and the Electronic Visualization Lab at the… Read more |
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Computer Display of Linear Fractal Surfaces
John Hart May 1, 1991 Historically, computer graphics algorithms have been optimized for locally smooth surfaces. These methods fail when the surface is very rough or, in… Read more |
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Ray Tracing Deterministic 3-D Fractals 2
Daniel J. Sandin, John Hart, Louis H. Kauffman July 1, 1989 - July 30, 1989 As shown in 1982, Julia sets of quadratic functions as well as many other deterministic fractals exist in spaces of higher dimensionality than the… Read more |
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Visualization in Scientific Computing
Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti November 1, 1987 In October 1986, the Division of Advanced Scientific Computing (DASC) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored a meeting of a… Read more |
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Two-phase IO Enabling Large-scale Performance Introspection (poster)
Ke Fan, Sidharth Kumar November 12, 1970 - November 17, 1970 Numerous sophisticated profiling and visualization tools have been developed to enable programmers to expose semantic information from their… Read more |
