Vis Center News
11.05.09
Vis Center hosts a Forum on Coal in Kentucky
On Thursday, November 5, the Vis Center hosted a full day Forum on Coal in Kentucky. Featuring nearly 20 speakers ranging from coal producers, environmentalists, regulators and researchers. Over 300 people attended the daytime sessions and another 300 attendees came out for the evening session.
10.08.09
Ground Breaking Ceremony for New Building to House Vis Center
University of Kentucky President Lee T. Todd Jr. and lead donor Davis Marksbury today presided over groundbreaking ceremonies for a new $18.6 million building to house the second phase of the university's high-tech "Digital Village" concept. The building will be named for Marksbury, a 1980 civil engineering alumnus and a leading donor in a project primarily supported through private donations.
Todd and Marksbury were joined by Secretary of the Governor's Executive Cabinet Mary Lassiter, Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry and UK College of Engineering Dean Thomas Lester, in a ceremony at the building site on Rose Street near the UK James F. Hardymon Building, which is also part of the Digital Village.
"This is a historic moment for the University of Kentucky," said Todd. "Not only will the Davis Marksbury Building provide UK with world-class research and teaching space, it is the first capital construction project to be constructed solely with private support and matching funds from the state's Research Challenge Trust Fund."
10.06.09
Vis Center Media Intern Documents Solar House in
Washington, D.C.
The University of Kentucky is one of twenty universities worldwide invited to participate in Solar Decathlon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Faculty and students from UK are now assembling their solar house on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The entire trip is being documented by a Vis Center Media for Research intern who is traveling with the group which is comprised of faculty, staff and students from the Colleges of Agriculture, Design and Engineering. Don Colliver, Professor of Biosystems and Agriculture Engineering, has been the principal investigator on the project with assistance from a number of engineering faculty and staff. Dozens of corporations and individuals provided contributions including a lead gift of $250,000 provided by E.ON U.S.
05.08.09
Dr. Brent Seales and the EDUCE Project in the Wall Street Journal
This summer, Dr. Brent Seales and the EDUCE project of the University of Kentucky's Center for Visualization will test the effects of 3D X-ray scanning of two carbonized papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum. The scrolls in question have never before been opened or read which are now located in the French National Institute in Paris.
03.12.09
Dr. Hassebrook and FlashScan 3D receive funding from DHS
The US Department of Homeland Security has given the University of Kentucky's Vis Center and FlashScan3D $418,912 to further develop a technique called structured light illumination. There are many uses for this type of technology, such as fingerprint and facial scans.Click here for full story
02.06.09
Mayor Jim Newberry Visits the Vis Center View Slideshow
Mayor Jim Newberry tours the Vis Center.
01.07.09
Digital Village Architects tour the the Vis Center
The Vis Center was pleased to host architects from the RATIO Architecture Firm as they took a tour of the current Vis Center space. This meeting of the minds was a great opportunity for discussion and brainstorming. Groundbreaking for the Digital Village is to be held in October, 2009.
12.09.08
Digital Renaissance Imaging the Iliad View Slideshow
The Vis Center is pleased to present Digital Renaissance Imaging the Iliad. The Premier will be shown December 9th at 3:00 pm in the W.T. Young Auditorium.
12.08.08
Press Conference on new Vis Center Building View Slideshow
The University of Kentucky College of Engineering will anounce plans for a new building which will house the Vis Center. This press conference will take place in the Verizon Room of the James F. Hardymon Building on the corner of Rose and Maxwell Streets on December 8th at 10:00 AM. Press Release
02.15.08
REAL TIME Opens at the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art
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.
01.09.06
2006 NSF CAREER Award
Congratulations to Dr. David Nister for winning the prestigious 2006 NSF CAREER Award with the project Structure from Recognition, Building Visual Worlds.
09.08.05
Best Poster Paper Award
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.
06.06.2005
Wethington Awards
4 faculty associated with the Vis Center won award.
Click here to view article.
06.02.2005
Oak Ridge Research Awards
New faculty Sen-Ching Cheung won award.
Click here to view article.
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
In The Beginning
02.01.2004
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.
12.10.2003
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.
04.01.2003
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.
