Dr. Ir. Gerwin de Haan
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Assistant Professor, working on |
Work Description
I work on various topics of interactive visualization in Virtual Environments, such as interaction, display and software development. The main focus of my previous Post-Doctoral position was the integrated visualization of massive point cloud datasets and flooding simulations. The other main fields of research are visual interfaces for video surveillance and projected augmented reality.
Research Theme and Projects
CloudViewer: Web-based 3D viewing of geodata (2011~now)
Virtual Reality Art Installation (2010/2011 with Artist Martin Sjardijn)
Live Virtual Reality Installation with 3D scanning and stereo video (2010, with Huib Piguillet) in the Tu Delft Science Center.
Augmented Projection for Design Reviews (2009~, with TUDelft Industrial Design, Jouke Verlinden)
Surveillance Video Streams Integrated in 3D models (2007~, with MSc. student Josef Scheuer, Huib Piguillet)
- Virtual Environments for 3D GIS and Massive Pointclouds (2008-2009)
Software Architecture for the Integrated Development of Interaction Scenarios (2006~)
Wii Balance Board for VR - using the Wii Balance Board as a low-cost VR interaction tool (2008)
PDRIVE, our Projector-based, Desktop Reach-In Virtual Environment (2006~)
Consistent Viewing and Interaction for Multiple Users in Projection-Based Virtual Reality, (2006, with MSc. student Rene Molenaar)
iVR, interactive Virtual Reality toolkit (2005~)
IntenSelect, Helpful interaction technique in VR (2005)
MSc Thesis (PDF) "Interactive Visualization on the Virtual Reality Responsive Workbench" (2002)
MolDrive, Molecular Dynamics steering in VR (2002)
VRX, Virtual Reality eXplorer (2002)
VrPhobia, Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (1999)
Teaching, Involvement and other activities
I spend a more-than-necessary percentage of my time on education and collaborating with students.
Teaching and Supervision:
The course IN3051TU Web-based 3D Visualization and supervision in GM1135 Case Study for BSc. students of the 3D Virtual Earth Minor, see results (2009-2010).
Teaching assistant for the practical exercises for "Data Visualisation" (2007-2010)
- Teaching assistant for the course "3D Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality" (2004-2007)
- Supervisor of the following BSc projects and MSc students:
- (Sep 2011 - Now) MSc project Marnix Kraus, on interactive control of multiple active cameras in video surveillance systems.
- (Sep 2011 - Now) MSc project Anne van Ee, on visual exploration and clustering of patent documents, in cooperation with the European Patent Office
- (Sep 2011 - Now) MSc project Ioanna Tziouvara, on interaction techniques in spatial (projected) augmented reality
Previous Student projects:
(Sep 2010 - Jan 2012) MSc project Nick Kraayenbrink, on a system for managing virtual crowds for video surveillance purposes.
(Sep 2010 - Jul 2011) MSc project Michel de Ridder, on interactive interfaces and visualization of large document sets, in cooperation with the European Patent Office.
(June 2010 - Aug 2011) MSc project Berend Wouda, on datastructures for interactive visualization massive point clouds.
(April 2011 - Aug 2011) BSc project "Multi-touch in the library", on an architecture for casual news-browsing on the Microsoft Surface, externally at the TUDelft Library.
(May 2010 - Aug 2010) BSc project "3D editor for training scenarios", externally at TNO Safety & Security
(september 2007 - April 2010) MSc project Huib Piguillet, on novel navigation and selection techniques for video surveillance systems.
(april 2009 - July 2009) BSc project "Immersiveness in serious gaming", externally at TNO Safety & Security
(october 2006 - november 2007) MSc project Josef Scheuer, "Supporting Video Surveillance by Computer Graphics", positioned externally at TNO Science & Industry
(september 2005 - april 2007) MSc project Rene Molenaar, "Viewing and Interaction for Multiple Users in Projection-Based VR Systems"
(september 2004 - august 2005) MSc project Ruixin Wang, "A Graphical Programming Environment for Culgi", currently employed at Culgi.com
Organization, Committees, Working groups and others:
2012, EuroVis 2012 Short Papers Committee member
2012, IEEE VR Workshop Immersive Visualization in VR, Orange County, CA, Organizer.
2010, Lead on the Environmental ICT for the interdisciplinary Climate City Campus project, Delft.
2010, Replacement lead of the 3D testbed group for the Dutch '''3D Pilot'''.
2010, Co-Host of the interdisciplinary MySharedClimate workshop.
- 2005+, Reviewing for IEEE VR, IEEE 3DUI, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Eurovis, Eurographics, Pacific Graphics, VCBM
Other work-related activities:
2010, Talk "Interactive Visualization of Massive Aerial LiDAR Point Clouds", at European LiDAR Mapping Forum at World Forum, The Hague.
2010, Demonstration of 3D Point Clouds and Flooding at the SuperComputing Conference 2010 in New Orleans, invited demo by Netherlands National Computing Facilities foundation (NWO NCF).
2010, Mini Interview on the introduction of new motion controllers in games TUDelft Delta Newspaper, De Standaard, national Belgium newspaper.
2010, Invited Talk on Integration of Visualization for Deltares software developer meeting, Delft.
2010, Demonstration of 3D Point Clouds and Flooding together with Prof Stelling at the WCIT Conference, Amsterdam.
2010, Demonstration of 3D Point Clouds of Coastline and Flooding at the Netherlands Center for Coastal Research (NCK) Days, Westkapelle.
2010, Workshop/Brainstorm on 3D data infrastructure for geoinformation, on the Dutch 3D Pilot project, Apeldoorn.
2010, Workshop/Brainstorm on Environmental ICT for the Climate City Campus project, Delft.
2009, Talk/Demonstration of 3D Point Cloud and Flooding visualization for Waterboard Delfland, Deltares, Delft.
2009, Invited Talk "Scalable Visualization of Massive Point Clouds", at NCG Seminar "Management of massive point cloud data,wet and dry" at Oracle, De Meern.
2009, Demonstration of 3D Point Cloud and Flooding visualization for Education minister Plasterk and members of the Dutch innovation platform, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
2008, Demonstration of VR/visualisation system for 3D topographic data at Core Spatial Data seminar.
2008, ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Conference, Student Volunteer
2008, Invited Talk "Virtual Reality for the Next Generation Traffic Control Room" at Time4innovation symposium.
2008, Demonstration of VR/visualisation system (photo) for 3D topographic data at AHN Gebruikersdag 2008
2008, IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 , Panel member for "Building the future of - and a career in - Virtual Reality"
2008, IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 & 3D User Interfaces Symposium, Student Volunteer
2008, Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, Industrial Event organizer together with my colleague Eric Griffith
2007, European Union Framework Program-7 Proposal I-SEC, "Intelligent SECurity of critical infrastructures", co-submitter
2007, English Language Test, reached C2 CEF-Level, see http://www.ielts.org
PhD Defense
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On September 2nd 2009, I defended my thesis 'Techniques and Architectures for 3D Interaction'. |
Talks and Presentations
"Flexible Architecture for the Development of Real-Time Interaction Behavior" (odp|ppt|pdf), IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, SEARIS Workshop (Software Engineering and Architectures for Real-Time Interactive Systems), March 2008
"Consistent Viewing and Interaction for Multiple Users in Projection-Based Virtual Reality", Eurographics 2007, September 2007
"PDRIVE: The Projector-based, Desktop Reach-In Virtual Environment", EGVE/IPT 2007 Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments/ Immersive Projection Technology , July 2007
"Flexible Abstraction Layers for VR Application Development" (odp|pdf, see IEEE explore page), IEEE Virtual Reality, April 2007
"Hybrid Interfaces in VEs: Intent and Interaction" (20 min) (sxi|ppt|pdf) given at the EGVE 2006 symposium on Virtual Environments, May 9., 2006
"Intenselect: Using Dynamic Object Rating for Assisting 3D Object Selection" (18 min) (sxi|ppt|pdf) given at the IPT/EGVE 2005 symposium on Virtual Environments, Oct. 7, 2005
"Interactive Molecular Studies in VR" (20 min) (sxi|pdf) given during the VR-Lab opening, Sep. 16, 2005
Research Interests
- VR interaction tools and scenario's in general
- Collaborative, physics-inspired and "responsive" interaction
- Visualisation and interaction with "large" Datasets through Focus and Context
- Tracking and display hardware and algorithms
- User Interface software development