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Location
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Computer Science
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Mission
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The Center for Visual Computing was established to advance visual computing studies
at SUNY Stony Brook, to promote research and education in Visual Computing, to attract
major federal and state funding, to motivate industry to collaborate with the Computer
Science department, and to foster interdisciplinary interaction. Visual computing
research activities include: visualization, computer graphics, image processing,
medical imaging, virtual reality, user interfaces, computer-supported collaborative
work, computer-aided design, multimedia, and computational geometry.
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Hardware
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iMac, PC, SGI, Sun
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Operating System
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Mac-OSX, MS Windows, Irix, Solaris
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Software
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Dreamweaver, Director, MS Visual Studio
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Details
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Among the projects are:
- CUBE, an architecture for volume visualization hardware,
- VolVis, a volume oriented tool for rendering images,
- Virtual Colonoscopy, a tool which enables the user to take data from a CT scan and
use it for a virtual ride through a patients colon.
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Funding
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NSF, ONR, Naval Research
Labs, NIH, DOE, Sandia National
Lab, The New York State Science and Technology Foundation, HP, CA,
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL),
INTEL, APPLE,
Exxon, Microsoft,
Invision, SPIR,
Periphonics, ADEMCO,
ArbonWorld, Reuters.
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Director
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Arie Kaufman
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Web Page
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Center for Visual Computing
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