News and Events
IEEE VR 2012 Workshop on Immersive Visualization
2012-01-30T17:26:47Z
Gerwin de Haan co-organizes the IEEE Virtual Reality 2012 Half-day workshop “Immersive Visualization Revisited” in an attempt to revamp cross-community work in immersive visualization. The major goal of this workshop is to establish a forum for the presentation and discussion of contemporary cross-community work in immersive visualization. To revive the contact between the nowadays largely separate communities of visualization and Virtual Reality, the workshop will contain technical paper presentations but also panel sessions and break-out discussion groups with (former) experts from research and industry. The organizers invite you to submit your work (technical short papers, position papers, Feb 10th) , and join the discussion early March at IEEE VR 2012, Orange County, CA, USA. For more info, see:
2012-01-19T15:55:20Z
Our colleague, Ricardo Lopes, was interviewed for this month’s TU Delta in their recurring segment halfway (about PhD students halfway in their project).
You can read the article here: http://delta.tudelft.nl/article/making-games-exciting/24438 and learn how to make games more exciting.
Successful Ph.D. defence Ruben Smelik
2011-12-01T09:13:33Z
On Wednesday, November 30, 2011, Ruben Smelik successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Dr. Ir. Smelik received his diploma for his research work on A Declarative Approach to Procedural Generation of Virtual Worlds.
Building Serious Games: media coverage
2011-11-24T13:53:21Z
Some of this semester’s student projects on our course in Building Serious Games (IN4302TU) have been gathering some attention on the media.
News items on Clash of the Penguins and Teeth Defender can be found on Medgadget, Metro, TU Delta and The Wall Street Journal.
SketchaWorld at the Delft Innovation Award 2011
2011-11-24T13:49:59Z
SketchaWorld, born out of the Game Technology PhD thesis of Ruben Smelik, is one of the 24 finalists of the Delft Innovation Award 2011.
Take a look at it here. And don’t forget to cast your vote here.
On a related topic, Ruben’s defense will be happening soon.
Internal colloquia
2011-05-16T08:25:45Z
The next Graphics Colloquium will take place on Thursday, May 19 at 15:45 in the Shannon Room on the 10th floor of the EEMCS building.
The following presentations will be given:
- Berend Wouda: Visual Continuous Level of Detail in Point Cloud Visualization
- Michel de Ridder: Zoomable User Interface for Large Document Collections using Multi-Touch
- Thomas Kroes: Raytraced lighting in interactive direct volume rendering
2011-04-13T07:43:50Z
The next Graphics Colloquium will take place on Thursday April 28 at 15:45 in the Shannon Room on the 10th floor of the EEMCS building.
The following presentations will be given:
- Bastijn Vissers: GPU Raycasting and Appearance Specification for Photographic Volumes
- Michel Fiege: Automatic generation of game material for teaching programming concepts
- Noeska Smit: Maps in Medical Visualization
Old news
PhD thesis Defense Matthijs Sypkens Smit
On Thursday 17 february Matthijs Sypkens Smit will defend his PhD thesis:
Efficient remeshing and analysis views for integration of design and analysis
Design and analysis are two separate disciplines, nowadays supported by computers, that frequently need to interact. The first is also known as computer-aided design, and is about the complete digital specification of products, in particular their geometry. Analysis is the process of simulating the physical behaviour of a product under certain conditions, such that the approximate behaviour can be tested before the product has been actually manufactured.
The interaction of these two disciplines of design and analysis is not very smooth. A lot of time is spent on converting models and tedious tasks related to this transition. With this thesis, we aim to improve the interaction of the two disciplines and improve the overall efficiency of the product development process. The work is focussed on two aspects in particular: efficient remeshing of analysis models, and analysis views. The first aspect concerns the efficient maintenance of the analysis mesh when changes are made to the design. The second aspect is about improving the link between the models of the product for design and for analysis.
time: 15.00
PhD thesis Defense Lingxiao Zhao
On Wednesday 9 March, at 10:00 Lingxiao Zhao will defend his PhD thesis:
Curvature Lines for Lesion Detection and Visualization in CT Colonography
Colon cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in the world. Colonic polyps are an important precursor of colon cancer. Early detection and removal of colonic polyps can effectively prevent colon cancer. For the diagnosis of colonic polyps, CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) is an advanced less-invasive screening technique which causes much less discomfort to the patient than traditional optical colonoscopy. However even using CT colonography, the visual detection of polyps can be complicated and time-consuming for the entire colonic surface. Computer-aided diagnosis has been suggested and became a major research topic for CT colonography. Many published approaches for automatic polyp detection made use of features derived from surface curvature. These features are usually too localized to fully describe characteristics of polyps. This can result in a large number of false-positive detections.
In this thesis, we present an automatic polyp detection approach that integrates knowledge from flow visualization techniques. Our primary goal was to compute additional characteristic polyp features that improve the performance of existing polyp detection approaches by eliminating false-positive polyp candidates. We found that surface principal curvature directions presented discriminating patterns on surface areas that belong to colonic polyps. These can be visualized using lines of curvature.
location: Senaatszaal, TU Delft Aula building, Mekelweg 5, Delft
time introductory talk: 9.30 am
time thesis defense: 10:00 am
Colloquia Computer Graphics and CAD/CAM
On these colloquia presentations will be given by MSc students of the Computer Graphics and CAD/CAM section (Prof. Jansen) about their research assignment and thesis project, and by PhD students and other members of the chair about their research. There is ample opportunity for discussion. MSc students of the chair are expected to attend the colloquia, others are welcome too.
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