Special Topics in Visualization
CIS 6930/4930 - CISE - University of Florida

Instructor: Alireza Entezari, Assistant Professor, CISE.

Class time and place: MWF 11:45am-12:35pm Room E221

Office hours: MWF 2-3pm E334 or by appointment.

Topics Description:

Visualization deals with all aspects that are connected with the visual representation of data sets from scientific experiments, simulations, medical scanners, databases and the like in order to achieve a deeper understanding or a simpler representation of complex phenomena. To obtain this goal, both well-known techniques from the field of interactive computer graphics and completely new methods are applied. The objective of the course is to provide knowledge about visualization algorithms and data structures as well as acquaintance with practical applications of visualization. Through several projects the student is expected to learn methods to explore and visualize different kinds of data sets.

Outline of Topics:

• Introduction, historical remarks, visualization pipeline
• Data acquisition and representation (sampling and reconstruction; grids and data structures)
• Human visual perception
• Basic mapping concepts
• Visualization of scalar fields (isosurface extraction, volume rendering)
• Visualization of vector fields (particle tracing, texture-based methods, vector field topology)
• Tensor fields, multi-attribute data, multi-field visualization
• Information visualization

Prerequisites:

Basic graphics knowledge is recommended (such as CAP4730). Advanced graphics knowledge would be even better. Some basic algebra/numerical concepts are necessary. Signal Processing background is helpful as well.

Course Material

• Lecture notes can be found in Here
• Assignment1 is posted and is due February 01, 2008.
• Assignment2 is posted and is due February 22, 2008.
• Final project info is posted. First part, project proposal is due March 03, 2008.