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The visualization group at the UiB dep. of informatics in Bergen, Norway, researches new visualization solutions for users from different domains to enable the effective and efficient exploration, analysis, and/or presentation of data.  

Datasets usually result from either experimental measurements (e.g., medical image acquisition with computer tomography or sonar measurements of fish schools), computational simulation (e.g., computational fluid dynamics simulation), or theroretical modeling (e.g., dynamical system modeling).  

User goals include the presentation of valuable information to others (e.g., in a collaborative setting or for dissemination), the analysis of hypotheses to either corroborate or to reject them (e.g., during medical diagnosis or when analyzing a new design in engineering), and finding new, possibly unexpected information (e.g., in the exploration of trends and outliers).  

Visualization research can be categorized in different ways, e.g., by distinguishing between usage domains (e.g., medical visualization, flow visualization, etc.) or by opposing visualization technologies (e.g., interactive visual analysis, illustrative visualization, etc.).   Here we provide an overview of our research with respect to both of these two categorizations.
 

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Medicine


We research new visualization approaches to support medical diagnosis, surgery planning, and other medical procedures.

[research in progress]
   = result from a research cooperation with www.SCR.Siemens.com

Marine Life Research


Visualization research is targeted at supporting the analysis of time-dependent data from 3D sonar measurements of fish schools.

[research in progress]
   = result from a research cooperation with www.IMR.no

Oil & Gas Extraction


Our research is oriented at the needs for interpreting large seismic datasets and for 3D inspections to support hole drilling, aso.

[research in progress]
   = result from a research cooperation with www.CMR.no

Molecular Biology


Interactive 3D visualization helps to better understand the complex structure of large proteins as well as their dynamics.

[research in progress]
   = result from a research cooperation with www.CMR.no and BCCS.UiB.no

 

Interactive Visual Analysis


Interactive visual analysis (aka "visual analytics") is provided to enable iterative information drill-down in complex data exploration scenarios.

[research in progress]
   = result from a research cooperation with the Univ. of Magdeburg and www.VRVis.at

Illustrative Visualization


Illustrative visualization utilizes a variety of different styles to enable focus+context visualization with respect to user preferences.

[research in progress]
   = result from a research cooperation with the Univ. of Vienna

GPU-based Visualization


The utilization of modern graphics hardware allows interactive visualization of large datasets as unseen before.

[research in progress]
   = result from a research cooperation with www.VRVis.at





 Last change: Helwig Hauser, 2007-08-13