CS237 Student Project Ideas

Joe LaViola

Proposal Title:

Waves in the Market: A Pixel-Based Approach to Visualizing Market Trends in Historical Stock Data

PI: Joseph LaViola

Co-PI: Marc Mazjner

Co-PI: Paul Reitsma

Co-PI: Jon Reiter (Outside collaborator from Dept. of Economics)

Name: Daniel Acevedo

Topographical feature detection in height graphs through VR interaction.

PI: Daniel Acevedo

Co-PI: Prabhat

Co-PI: Frederic Leymarie (External consultant from Engineering Dept.)

Name: Asohan (Han) Amarasingham

Project Title: Visualization of Development in Self-Organizing Recurrent Neural Networks

PI: Han Amarasingham (Cognitive Science & Applied Mathematics)

Co-PI : Matthew Hutson (Cognitive Neuroscience)

Name: Danah Beard

The impact of shape-from-shading cues on virtual 3D systems

People: Danah Beard, Leslie Welch (psychology), Bill Warren (cog sci)

295 folk who might be interested in working with me: Avi Walsky (neuro/cog sci), Matt Hutson (neuro), Bill White (cs/cog sci)

Name:Quan Gu

Visualization of 3D protein image with the emphasis of uncertain factors.

PI: Quan Gu

Co-PI: Pramod Paranthaman(tentative)

consultant: Guo Dongbai (on computer graphics)

Name: Dongbai Guo

3D Vessel Reconstruction from EKG Gated Single Plane Angiograms

PI: Dongbai Guo

Co-PIs: Tim Rowley, Song Zhang

Consultant: David Williams

Name: Jimmy Ho

Name: Matt Hutson

1.) I think multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques based upon subjective measurements of similarity could be a powerful tool for modeling cognitive categorization strategies and internal knowledge/relationship structures relating to perceptual objects or abstract concepts. Specific applications (subject domains) or problems to be solved using these methods are numerous, I'm sure.

2.) The field of imaging artificial neural network activity patterns or memory representation may be saturated already, but then there could also be windows for new or more intuitive methods.

3.) I'd like to measure and display traffic through web pages or hypertext pieces. This would have important consequences for educational multimedia pieces as well as internet marketing.

4.) I'm interested in using an eye tracking device to record subjects' scanning patterns of 2D images, significantly art (paintings), 2d pictures of 3d objects or environments, or impossible images like Escher's waterfall or stairway pictures. Perhaps this could also be incorporated with QTVR objects to record how subjects put 3D objects into memory ("browsing" the object and returning their gaze periodically to specific salient features, etc.)

5.) I really want to explore real-time spatial models of brain activity. fMRI imaging goes at about one frame per second, and EEG has a higher temporal resolution but displays a bunch of lines on a page. I'd like to take raw EEG date and apply it to a 3d model of a brain to get a 3d representation of electrical activity during real-time cognitive processing tasks. Perhaps EEG recordings could be made as a subject plays an improv jazz instrument, and then the a sound recording of this musical session could later be played back in synchrony with the rendered brain activity data to show what parts of the cortex were active during what parts of the jam session...

Name:Daniel Keefe

Extending the Painting Metaphor in Visualizing 2D Flows by Applying a Wet-on-Wet Oil Painting Technique to Fuse and Suggest Motion in Multiple Layers of Visualized Data

PI: Daniel Keefe

OtherI: Paul Reitsma, Song Zhang

Potential Collaborators:

Mike Kirby (Flow Vis Analysis) - still waiting to hear back

Anne Spalter (Art/Color/Graphics) - meeting on Fri.

Name: Marc Majzner

Visualization of emerging-market debt pricing models

Marc Majzner, PI

Joseph LaViola, Co-PI

Name: Elisabeta (Liz) Marai

Title: Modeling length of wrist-ligaments.

PI: Liz Marai

(Potential) Collaborators:

Trey Crisco (?) - medical part

Cagatay Demiralp (?)

Stuart Andrews (?)

Name: Tomer Moscovich

Visualization of Color Spaces

Tomer Moscovich

Daniel Keefe

Leslie Welch or Bill Wooten (psychology dept)

Name: Prabhat

Interactive Visualization of 2D surfaces in 4D space

PI : Prabhat

Co-PI: Daniel Acevedo

Outside Collaboration: Prof. Thomas Banchoff (Maths Dept.)

Name: Pramod Paranthaman

Interactive visualization and manipulation of molecular structure in a VR environment.

PI: Pramod Paranthaman

Co-PI: Quan Gu (Dept. of Chemistry)

Co-PI: Prabhat (Tentative)

Name: Nikolai Priezjev

For two years I was doing numerical simulations of different models of liquid crystals.These simulations help to understand the inportans question,namely how molecular structure influences observed macroscopih behavour.As molecular models we are using phenemlogical ones.That means we include only essential features such as shape (ellipsoid of revolution) ,electric moments, attractive and repulsive parts of interacting potential. In many cases visualizations provides important insights into the physical behavour of these systems.

There are several diffferent phases of liquid crystals such as isotropic,nematic,smectic and so on.As a result of my simulations I obtained distribution of molecules for these phases with various external parameters. The main goal for this course will be draw 3D images for these configurations.(1)

I am planning to finish this project in two month.If there will be time left I would devote it to making animations of evolution of liqid crystal system with time.The data files I have obtained from Molecular Dynamics Method which is very important in understanding dynamical properties of LC systems.(2)

Also I am thinking about working with George Loriot on a project with LC on cave,which should be done in two month.

And finally I am currently working in simulating the stability of a escaped radial configuration of LC in a cylinder.Drawing some visualisations for these vector fields will be very useful for me,may be for future publication.