Computational Science and Visualisation Prof. dr. Alex Telea Master Program Voorlichting 2010

Computational Scienceand Visualisation

Prof. dr. Alex Telea

Master Program Voorlichting 2010

Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Alex Telea

Scientific Visualization & Computer Graphics

Research directions

Information &Software Visualization

Scientific Visualization Computer Graphics & Interaction

Jos Roerdink Alex Telea Tobias Isenberg

Applications: Neuroimaging, genomics, astronomy, visual perception, SW engineering


Research Topics

• scientific visualization• information and software visualization• perceptual visualization• computer graphics and rendering• non-photorealistic rendering• innovative interactive systems• computational geometry• application topics (biomedical imaging,

bioinformatics, astronomical visualization, etc.)


Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds• “Lucy” model:

– 10 million points– computation time: 21min– mesh with 39 million triangles– needs 2.6 GB of RAM

– efficiency?– performance?


Medical Visualization


Geometric Algorithms: Skeletonization


Geometric Algorithms: Skeletonization


Geometric Algorithms: Other

Image inpaintingShape part segmentation

Brain skeletonsShape patch segmentation


Astronomical Data Subspace Analysis


Information Visualization: Gene Network


Medical InfoVis: Average EEG Brain Map


Software Visualization

UML diagrams & metrics reverse engineering

peer-to-peer transactions software evolutionmemory allocations

source code syntax


Non-Photorealistic & Illustrative Rendering


Non-Photorealistic & Illustrative Rendering


Innovative Interfaces: Touch Interaction


Innovative Interfaces: Interactive VIS


Special Facilities

• mobile 3D projection system (with HPCV Center)

• stereoscopic LCD display• visualization workstations• CAVE and theater (with HPCV Center)


Study Program CSV

quarter class name EC4.1 Advanced Web Technology 5

Scientific Visualization 5 Numerical Mathematics 1 5

4.2 Image Processing 5 free choice* 5 Introduction Computational Science 5

4.3 Student Colloquium 5 Geometric Algorithms 5 Advanced Computer Graphics 5

4.4 research project (Onderzoeksstage) 155.1 Modeling and Simulation 5

2× free choice* 105.2 3× free choice* 155.3 & 5.4 final project and Master’s thesis 30


People @ SVCG

• Faculty– Dr. Henk Bekker Computational Geometry– Dr. Tobias Isenberg Computer Graphics, NPR, Interaction– Prof. Jos Roerdink Scientific Visualization & Applications– Prof. Alex Telea Software Vis, Flow Vis, Shape

Analysis

• PhD studentsAlessandro Crippa, Ozan Ersoy, Maarten Everts, Bilkis Ferdosi, Moritz Gerl, Deborah Mudali, Lingyun Yu

• Master studentsMai Ho, Cherian Mathew, Roelof Anne Schoenmaker,Pjotr Svetachov, Luc Vlaming, Bertjan Broeksema, Liewe Kwakman


More Information

• details in the current Master curriculum document:http://www.cs.rug.nl/~roe/curriculum/curriculum2010-2011.pdf

• look at SVCG group home page:http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/

• specifically, research and teaching & project pages:http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Main/Teaching

• staff personal web pages• talk to us:

Henk Bekker BB room 582Tobias Isenberg BB room 488Jos Roerdink BB room 480Alex Telea BB room 494

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Computational Science and Visualisation Prof. dr. Alex Telea Master Program Voorlichting 2010