NCSA sponsors talk on visual analysis

released August 26, 2005

NCSA is sponsoring a presentation by David Ebert, director of the Purdue University Rendering and Perceptualization Lab, at 10 a.m. Sept. 16 in Room 5602 at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Ebert will discuss "Extending Graphics and Visualization to Visual Analysis."

In his talk, Ebert plans to describe his team's research beyond realistic rendering and visualization to effectively convey information to the user and creation of effective external cognitive artifacts to improve scientific discovery and analysis. They are developing techniques to enable graphics and visualization systems to become usable, dependable, actionable, and eventually indispensable tools for artists, animators, scientists, business managers, and information analysts to analyze and convey meaning from the underlying data. To achieve this goal they are using advanced interfaces, interactive image generation, and novel rendering and visualization techniques that incorporate and extend techniques from physics, perception, art, and illustration. Ebert will highlight work to achieve these goals in several areas ranging from atmospheric science and medicine to computer-generated film effects.

In addition to directing the Rendering and Perceptualization Lab, Ebert also is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been very active in the graphics community, teaching courses, presenting papers, chairing the ACM SIGGRAPH 97 Sketches program, co-chairing the IEEE Visualization '98 and '99 Papers program, serving on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee, and serving as editor-in-chief for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Ebert is also editor and co-author of the seminal text on procedural techniques in computer graphics, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, whose third edition was published in December 2003.

 

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