Frits Post receives Visualization Career Award

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:06:53 +0000

We are proud to announce that Frits Post received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Career Award. At VisWeek 2011, the annual IEEE Visualization conference held 23-28 October in Providence, RI, he received his award. With this award, the international visualization community recognises his outstanding contributions to the research field, and flow visualization in particular. In his acceptance speech, Frits briefly discussed his 20+ years in the visualization field and expressed his gratitude for great collaborations in several organizational committees, and for the PhDs he supervised from 1989 through 2011. Earlier this year, Post also received the Eurographics Honorary Fellowship from the European association for computer graphics. Frits Post, now officially retired, indicated he will continue to visit the Computer Graphics and Visualization group at Delft University of Technology regularly to advise on ongoing research.

(Update: here is the accompanying award text and a snapshot of the award plaque itself)

Frits Post receives Visualization Career Award at Visweek 2011

Bastijn Vissers successfully defends M.Sc. thesis on Direct Visualization of Photographic Volumes

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:12:30 +0000

This morning between 10:00 and 12:00, Bastijn Vissers presented and then defended his M.Sc. thesis on the Direct Visualization of Photographic Volumes. In this work, he investigated issues around applying direct volume rendering techniques to photographic volumes, for example cadaveric cryosections. He also developed a new technique for flexible and easy-to-use illustrative volume rendering appearance specification called EbAS, or Example-based Appearance Specification.

You can find more screenshots, youtube clips and his thesis on the project page. We are very proud that Bastijn will soon start working as a software developer at Philips Healthcare in Best.

Clinical Graphics wins Philips Innovation Award

Fri, 13 May 2011 08:30:04 +0000

With his start-up company Clinical Graphics, our former MSc and PhD student Peter Krekel, won the 2011 Philips Innovation Award this thursday night May 12th. Some of us were in the audience to cheer, but he blew away his four fellow finalists anyhow with his usual grace in presentation, fancy animations and some tight business propositions. The award includes a 5000E money prize and 20.000E worth of “free” business consulting and training of top entrepreneurs. Go Peter!

Frits Post gives Keynote at Eurographics 2011

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:11:32 +0000

We’re proud that “our” Frits Post will give a keynote titled “Data Visualization: Featuring Interactive Visual Analysis” at this year’s Eurographics conference. EG 2011 is the 32nd annual conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics and is held at Bangor University, School of Computing in Llandudno in Wales, UK. More information on Post’s keynote (Thursday 14th of April, end of the day) and the other keynotes can be found here.

Research visit by Dr Helmut Doleisch

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:52:10 +0000

Dr Helmut Doleisch, Visual Analysis guru and currently CEO of SimVis, visited our group on March 24 and 25. We are now up to date on the latest industrial-grade visual analysis techniques, and have set the first steps towards a European research cooperation with SimVis.