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ASCI Course Announcement – a17. Data Visualization and Virtual Reality

Lecturers/Instructors:

TU Delft: Ir. J. Blaas, Dr. C.P. Botha, S. Busking M.Sc., E.J. Griffith M.Sc., Prof.dr.ir. F.W. Jansen, Ir. G. de Haan, Dr.ir. M. Koutek, Ir. F.H. Post
TU Eindhoven: Prof.dr.ir. J.J. van Wijk

Contact: Ir. F.H. Post, frits.post@ewi.tudelft.nl, tel.: +31 15 278 2528
Web page: http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/a17

Registration: http://www.asci.tudelft.nl/Course_Programme/CB_Registrationform_courses.htm

Time and location 8 – 12 September 2008,
Technical University Delft
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft
Directions: How to get there?

Goal

Visualization is concerned with the visual interpretation and exploration of large data sets. This course covers topics in advanced computer graphics, scientific, medical, and information visualization, and the use of Virtual Reality technology for data visualization. In a number of workshops, emphasis will be on getting practical experience in the presented course topics.

Prerequisites

• Basic computer graphics knowledge. The following documents, used as material in our second year Computer Science course, can be used as a guideline. The Computer Graphics syllabus deals with the basics of 2D and 3D computer graphics using OpenGL. The chapter on VRML is not relevant to this course. The skeleton code for the assignments can be found in the accompanying appendix. These documents can be found in the /CourseDocuments page (see also below)

• Programming experience, some hands-on Python experience would come in handy

Course Structure and Format

One-week course with introductory lectures on the first day. The other days workshops on advanced topics:

1. Advanced Medical Visualization/Image Processing: using the DeVIDE medical visualization and

   • image processing platform, including VTK and ITK, for solving problems of medical diagnosis and treatment planning.

2. Virtual reality for data visualization: Use of different VR platforms for interactive visualization of large

   • data sets from physical simulations

3. Advanced Graphics Programming: using programmable graphics hardware (GPU) for fast display of

   • 3D scenes, and use of the GPU for other applications, such as image processing

4. Information Visualization: visualization techniques for abstract data and complex hierarchical

   • structures, and 'soft aspects' of visualization: design aspects and experimental evaluation techniques.

All workshops will begin with a brief introduction to the topic. Workshops 2 and 3 will be run twice (in parallel) for reasons of capacity. In the time table below, click on the links (in blue) to get more information on that course component.

Locations

The workshop will be held in various locations on the TU campus:

• Stamatis Vassiliadis room, room number LB 16.140, 16th floor EEMCS high-rise building, Mekelweg 4.

• Drebbelweg, Practical Computer rooms, ground floor, room 0.210, Cornelis Drebbelweg 35.

• VR Lab, Virtual Reality Laboratory C 156, 1st floor TNW building, Lorentzweg 1 .

We plan to have lunch as a group each day between 12:30 and 13:30 in the EEMCS cafeteria (lunch-items not included)

• Cafeteria, 1st floor EEMCS high-rise building, Mekelweg 4.

Preliminary Schedule

Lecture notes

We will provide a collection of papers and slides through the a17 Course Documents page, and on a USB memory stick.

Test

Short presentation about your own visualization work, or based on a recent journal paper. Date to be determined