Recent M.Sc. Defences

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:14:42 +0000

At regular intervals, we will post updates concerning recent master thesis topics and outcomes.

We’ll begin with a description of the work done by Marnix Kraus, MSc. who completed his Master Thesis in the field of active multi-camera navigation in video surveillance systems, supervised by Gerwin de Haan. He designed and evaluated a prototype system for this purpose. His findings indicate that the presented system can enhance operator performance in surveillance control rooms that monitor vast and complex areas. The full thesis can be downloaded here. More information on research related to this topic can be found on the VRLAB project website.

In the game technology department, Rick de Ridder, MSc. worked on simulating urban area development for semantic game worlds for his Master Thesis. This work was supervised by Tim Tutenel and Rafael Bidarra. In his work, he expands a semantic world-generation prototype by introducing factors like resources, events and neighboring settlements in the generation process. It extends current techniques by adding more history and meaning to the procedurally generated cities. The full thesis can be found here and additional information is available on the related Game Technology project website.

Anne van Ee, Msc. developed new interaction schemes for the touch-based organization of patent collections in her thesis work. The thesis was supervised by Gerwin de Haan and it was carried out in co-operation with the European Patent Office. Anne based her work on earlier co-operative work with the European Patent Office and improved the organization system by introducing the Local Affine Multidimensional Projection (LAMP) technique to help the user while searching for patents. If you’re interested in this work, you can check out the full thesis here.

Renata Raidou. MSc. completed her thesis in the field of medical visualization as a Biomedical Engineer. In her work she successfully researched the planning and guidance of minimally invasive cement injection to combat the effects of aseptic loosening that occur after total hip replacement surgery. This work was supervised by Francois Malan and Charl P. Botha. Renata developed an integrated system for planning and guiding minimally invasive refixation. The thesis proposes new approaches to combine CT and fluoroscopy in pre-operative planning. She conducted an extensive review with domain experts to evaluate the system. Her full thesis can be found here.

MedVis overview preprint gets featured on Gizmodo and MIT Technology Review

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:02:08 +0000

During EuroVis 2012, we put a preprint of an upcoming Springer book chapter, titled From individual to population: Challenges in Medical Visualization by Charl P. Botha, Bernhard Preim, Arie Kaufman, Shigeo Takahashi and Anders Ynnerman, on arXiv. To our delighted surprise, the paper was featured two days later both on Gizmodo, titling their post This Is the Future of Medical Imaging, and also on the MIT Technology Review, with a rather complete paper summary titled The Future of Medical Visualisation! This led to a whole slew of other sites also mentioning this work.

In any case, we hope you enjoy reading the preprint, a very compact summary of Medical Visualization developments of the past 30 years and a hint of what the coming decade holds, as much as we enjoyed writing it!

Install the pretty IPython Notebook into your DeVIDE 12.2.7

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:54:09 +0000

The new IPython Notebook is gorgeous:

The IPython Notebook in action

You can have all of this in your DRE installation thanks to the integrated PIP. Follow this easy recipe, and let me know how it went on the mailing list or in the comments to this post.