Let's Talk About Volumetric Data

Speaker:	Prof. Klaus Muller
		Stony Brook University

Title:		"Let's Talk About Volumetric Data"

Date:		Monday, 8 January, 2007

Time:		4pm - 5pm

Venue:		Room 3501 (via lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST


Abstract:

Volumetric datasets have become ubiquitous in a wide range of disciplines,
such as science, engineering, medicine, and even entertainment. There is a
vast demand to efficiently create these data, use them in modeling tasks,
as well as fuse, relate, and visualize them.

In this talk I will report on our efforts in all of these domains. First I
will discuss techniques that utilize GPUs for rapid tomographic volume
reconstruction and even direct volume visualization from X-ray projection
data. Then I will describe our Magic Volume Lens framework which fuses and
augments different types of volumetric data at different scales into one
composite representation, providing a variety of zoom lenses for
focus+context GPU-accelerated viewing with semantic context.  The talk
will end on an artistic note, discussing our novel colorization tool,
available as a Photoshop plug-in, which conceptualizes the color editing
process as a volumetric modeling task.



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Biography:

Klaus Mueller is currently an Associate Professor at the Computer Science
Department at Stony Brook University, where he also holds co-appointments
at the Biomedical Engineering and the Radiology Departments. He earned an
MS degree in Biomedical Engineering and a PhD degree in Computer Science,
both from Ohio State University. His current research interests are
computer graphics, visualization, medical imaging, and computer vision. He
won the NSF CAREER award in 2001 and has served as a program co-chair at
various conferences, such the Volume Graphics Workshop, IEEE
Visualization, and the Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics. He
has authored in excess of 80 journal and conference papers and is a senior
member of the IEEE.