Center For Visualization & Virtual Environments


Welcome to the University of Kentucky's multi-disciplinary Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments. Through research, education, and external partnerships, it is the mission of the Center to enable new visualization technologies and to advance the art of immersive visualization by addressing the scientific and engineering challenges related to visual simulations and virtual environments.

The mission is carried out by faculty, staff and students with expertise in computer vision and image processing, data acquisition, graphics, human-computer interaction, multimedia, and networking and is dedicated to research and development of computer-generated immersive environments, ambient environments, dynamic scene acquisition and preservation, advanced telepresence and telecommunications, and visualization applications in areas such as education and training, medicine, manufacturing, security and daily life. Researchers are building state-of-the-art visualization and display environments for different applications. The research includes efficient 3D data acquisition and analysis and computer vision and graphics problems related to model acquisition and tracking of people and objects in order to populate and preserve realistic three-dimensional scenes.

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Every day we see our world: the natural world, ourselves, other people, and the results of our creation. But how do we see them? And what would happen if we could see them differently - from a new angle, a different point of view, or a fresh perspective? The Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments seeks to create these new ways of seeing, to help us interpret our world, to reach a new understanding and to improve the human condition. The Center for Visualization: creating new ways of seeing the world, new views of the world, and new things to see.