HALF-DAY
TUTORIAL T5:
The tutorial will give an introduction
in the state of the art of scientific visualization. This very active research
area transforms digital data from modelling, simulation and measurement in
the natural sciences, life sciences and engineering into computer graphics
and animations. It is mainly concerned with continuous data, i.e. scalar,
vector and tensor fields given by interpolation of the discrete data provided
by the applications.
The tutorial will start with a description of the task, i.e. the data sets
and the pipelining approach taken by most visualization systems. The main
part of the tutorial covers state-of-the-art visualization techniques and
practical results for scalar, vector and tensor data as well as integrated
approaches addressing multi fields as most applications create multiple fields.
The final part of the tutorial will cover existing visualization systems.
The tutorial assumes a graduate level education in computer science including
basic knowledge in vector analysis. Since visualization is best communicated
by images, it should be easy to follow for all conference attendees.
Hans Hagen
is currently full professor at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern
and chairman of the Computer Science Department. He is also the scientific
director of the institute on Intelligent Visualization and Simulation at
the German Research Center for Artifial Intelligence (DFKI). He holds a Ph.D.
in mathematics from the University of Dortmund, a B. S. and M. S. in mathematics
and a B. S. in computer science from the University of Freiburg. Prior to
his curent position, he was an associate professor at the TU Braunschweig
and he had several visiting positions, especially in the USA. His research
interests include all areas of scientific visualization, computer graphics
and geometric modeling. He was editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on
visualization and computer graphics from 1999-2003 and is an associated editor
of CAGD, Computing and Surveys on Mathematics in Industry. Prof. Hagen has
published nearly 200 articles in scientific visualization, computer graphics,
geometric modelling and geometry and is a member of ACM, GI, IEEE, and SIAM.