Workshop: Immersive Visualization
Event TypeACM SIGGRAPH Frontiers, Frontiers Workshop
Research & Education
Research & Education
TimeSunday, 28 July 20199am - 5pm
LocationRoom 505
DescriptionThis workshop focuses on Immersive (Hybrid) Analytics which is science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces, deployed through effective use of multi-modal XR systems. It is successfully applied to scientific visualization, to graphically illustrate and spatially interact with, enabling scientists to understand, explore and gain meaningful insights from their massive data, often outcomes of complex simulations or data captures. It presents novel opportunities to facilitate data exploration with a human-in-the-loop using combination of machine learning, high performance graphics and interactive visualizations, and combining the strengths of human intuition with the power of computing to enhance better decision making.
Immersive Visualization
Organizers
Tomasz Bednarz
Wesley Griffin
Presenters
Tomasz Bednarz
Wesley Griffin
John Stone
Tim Dwyer
Mohammad Soleymani
Johanna Bayer
William R Sherman
Nicholas F Polys
Event Type
ACM SIGGRAPH Frontiers
Frontiers Workshop
New Technologies
Research & Education
New Technologies
Research & Education
TimeSunday, 28 July 20199am - 5pm
LocationRoom 505
DescriptionThis workshop focuses on Immersive (Hybrid) Analytics which is science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces, deployed through effective use of multi-modal XR systems. It is successfully applied to scientific visualization, to graphically illustrate and spatially interact with, enabling scientists to understand, explore and gain meaningful insights from their massive data, often outcomes of complex simulations or data captures. It presents novel opportunities to facilitate data exploration with a human-in-the-loop using combination of machine learning, high performance graphics and interactive visualizations, and combining the strengths of human intuition with the power of computing to enhance better decision making.
Organizers
Tomasz Bednarz
CSIRO Data61
UNSW Art & Design
A/Professor Tomasz Bednarz is a Director and Head of Visualisation at the Expanded Perception & Interaction Centre (EPICentre), UNSW Art & Design. He is also a Team Leader in Visual Analytics, at the CSIRO Data61 (Computational Platforms Group, Software & Computational Systems Program).
His current roles reflect his conviction to a holistic approach to the wicked problems facing the collation, analytics and display of big data. His approach is expansive and encompasses the use of novel technologies (AR, VR, CAVE, Dome, AVIE), often in combination. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in wide range of projects in area of immersive visualisation, human-computer interaction, computational imaging, image analysis and processing, visualisation, simulations, computer graphics, computer games, computational fluid dynamics, demoscene.
He is Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, that will be held first time in Australia (in Brisbane).
Wesley Griffin
NIST
Wesley Griffin is a Computer Scientist in the High Performance Computing and Visualization Group of the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in. He develops immersive visual applications for scientific data analysis on the desktop and the NIST CAVE. His research interests are in immersive visualization for computational and scientific data. He is an organizer of the Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems (SEARIS) workshops held in conjunction with IEEE VR.
Presenters
Tomasz Bednarz
CSIRO's Data61
UNSW Art & Design
A/Professor Tomasz Bednarz is a Director and Head of Visualisation at the Expanded Perception & Interaction Centre (EPICentre), UNSW Art & Design, Team Leader in Visual Analytics, at the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organisation Data61 (Computational Platforms Group, Software & Computational Systems Program).
Wesley Griffin
NIST
Wesley Griffin is a Computer Scientist in the High Performance Computing and Visualization Group of the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
John Stone
Research Programmer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mr. Stone is the lead developer of VMD, a high performance tool for visualization of biomolecular simulations used by over 100,000 researchers. His research interests include molecular visualization, GPU computing, ray tracing, haptics, virtual environments, and immersive visualization. Mr. Stone was inducted as an NVIDIA CUDA Fellow in 2010.
Tim Dwyer
Monash University
Tim leads the Immersive Analytics Lab at Monash University. His research concerns many different aspects of Information Visualisation and Visual Analytics. He is interested in visual interfaces for the exploration and communication of data. In particular, he explores how we can effectively use emerging display technologies—such as large interactive surfaces and augmented and virtual reality—to help people perform data analysis.
Mohammad Soleymani
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Mohammad Soleymani is a research assistant professor in computer science at USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). At ICT, he leads the research on human perception for multimodal interaction with virtual humans. He has served as program chair for ACM Conference on Multimodal Interaction and Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction.
Johanna Bayer
Visual Computing Lab (VCG) at Harvard University
Johanna Beyer is a research associate at the Visual Computing Lab at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Technology Vienna, Austria in 2009. Her research interests are large-scale scientific and bio-medical visualization and its application to immersive analytics.
William R Sherman
Indiana University
William R. Sherman is a member of the Indiana University Advanced Visualization Lab, where he leads efforts in Scientific Visualization and Virtual Reality. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on VR and Visualization, which he has done for two decades, including at the University of Nevada, Reno (UVR), and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Nicholas F Polys
Virginia Tech
Nicholas is an Affiliate Professor in the Department Computer Science where he teaches classes such as Intro to HCI, Media Computation, Graphics and GUI Programming, HCI Capstone, or Information Visualization and Virtual Environments. He is Director of Visual Computing for Virginia Tech Advanced Research Computing.