Center For Visualization & Virtual Environments
Doreen Maloney's mobile phone based REAL TIME show will open February 15th 2008. REAL TIME is a new media art peice which is a compilation of two pieces, Crash Site and Texas Stadium Religion.
Congratulations to Dr. David Nister for winning the prestigious 2006 NSF CAREER Award with the project Structure from Recognition, Building Visual Worlds.
Center Faculty Receive Best Poster Paper Award at the British Machine Vision Conference for their work: "Offline Generation of High Quality Background Subtraction Data". Congratulations to Etienne Grossmann, Amit Kale, Christopher Jaynes, and Samson CheunVisit Metaverse Publications to download a copy of the paper.
4 faculty associated with the Vis Center won award.
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New faculty Sen-Ching Cheung won award.
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UK, Visualization Center Part of Security Consortium
The University of Kentucky Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments will have a prominent role in a consortium to do research and development on homeland-security projects for use across the nation. UK researchers are listed below.
$654,668 for UK, Western Kentucky University and the University of Louisville to develop a high-tech surveillance and face-recognition system.
Principal Investigator: Daniel Lau, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co PIs: Laurence Hassebrook, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ruigang Yang and Christopher Jaynes, Computer Science
$318,048 UK and WKU to develop portable command systems for use in emergency situations.
PI: Christopher Jaynes
Co PI: Ruigang Yang
$285,085 to UK to demonstrate a 3-D simulation and training system for disaster scenarios.
PI: Ruigang Yang
Co PI: Christopher Jaynes
$95,751 to UK to determine the best way to manage and disseminate information in situations in which time is critical.
PI: Melody Carswell, Psychology
Center faculty are beginning projects with Toyota Manufacturing in two areas. The first project, led by Professors Larry Hassebrook and Daniel Lau, explores the feasibility to use structured light 3D scanners on the assembly line for acquisition and analysis of certain operations. The second project, led by Professor Christopher Jaynes, will explore immersive visualization of automotive design data from Toyota for identifying and analyzing specific design issues.
Professor Brent Seales was notified by the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center of his being awarded a first-year $1M grant for a project proposed by him and Dr. Adrian Park of the University of Maryland. The project, Reconstruction, Enhancement, and Ergonomic Assessment for Laparoscopy (REVEAL), uses computer vision to enhance the performance of surgeons in laparoscopic procedures. The project is expected to last five years.
The College of Engineering received a $4 million grant from state to establish Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments. This was one of seven projects identified by the Kentucky Office of New Economy to represent areas where Kentucky's scientific community has already developed a national or international reputation and, with funding, these initiatives could have a significant impact on Kentucky's economic future.