Speaker: Torsten Möller (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Volume Graphics is part of Computer Graphics whose main subject of study are points and objects made of points. This seeming lack of descriptiveness turns out to be very powerful in describing many natural and complex phenomena from weather patterns to fuel cells to our human body. Besides the creation of 2D images of complex objects the goal of Volume Graphics or Scientific Visualization at large is the creation of tools that enhance the understanding of the objects under investigation. This typically requires the user to interact with the object in real time by extracting only features of interest, creating images that are accurate and reliable.
This talk will give an overview of the research in Scientific Visualization at the Graphics, Usability and Visualization (GrUVi) Lab at Simon Fraser University. The second half of the talk will focus on recent results of utilizing colour phenomena, such as metamers and colour constancy, for novel data exploration algorithms.