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Immersive Volume Visualization Environment

This project aims to develop immersive techniques and systems for 3D volume data exploration. The system will provide an immersive 3D interface for interactive data manipulation and visualization. Interaction techniques will be developed for various levels of user immersion. Haptical techniques with force-feedback will be investigated to provide additional realism during data manipulation. An ImmersaDesk VR system is used.

A preliminary system, called 3DIVE, has been developed. 3DIVE is an immersive system, developed in association with IU Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL), for 3D volume data exploration. It provides an immersive 3D interface for interactive data manipulation and visualization. It is the first immersive volume visualization environment to implement the concept of volumetric regions and objects. Some of the region-based functionality 3DIVE incorporates includes transformation, slicing, interactive image processing, region of interest extraction, transfer function design and editing, and multiple dataset handling. A collaborative module is also being developed. 3DIVE currently accepts 8-bit intensity data or 32-bit RGBA data. These data sets can be collected or generated from a variety of sources, such s MRI, CT, confocal microscope, and "in-house" volume graphics techniques.

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Project Presented By

Fang, Shiaofen

Position:	Chair, Professor
Mail:
Phone:	317-274-9731
Url:	http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~sfang

Education Details

PhD:	Computer Science University of Utah 1992

Research Interests

My primary research interests are in visualization, biomedical imaging, computer graphics, and geometric modeling. My early research focus had been on Volume Visualization and Volume Graphics. Major projects include deformable volume modeling and rendering, hardware assisted voxelization, volume fusion, 3D microscopy visualization, and immersive volume visualzation. A common theme of these research projects is the efficient and effective visaulization of scientific data. Although this line of research is still a major part of my work, My recent research interests have been shifted more towards the direction of medical image analysis and visual data mining. These include 3D image analysis for medical diagnosis, surface analysis of medical scans, 3D surface reconstruction, and knowledge discovery through information visualization.