Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:51:18 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5.2 Last-modified: Thu, 01 Sep 1994 17:31:44 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-length: 3774 IRWIN STUART SMITH

Irwin Stuart Smith

Professor

stu@cs.uml.edu

Scientific data visualization and sonification, interactive supercomputing

RESEARCH

"Auditory Representation of Scientific Data", NSF Grant IRI-9214694 (1993-1994)
The long-term goal of this work is to develop and evaluate auditory representations of multidimensional data. The specific goals for this project are
  1. to build a prototype computing environment for research in auditory data representation
  2. to develop several different auditory data representations
  3. to conduct preliminary testing and demonstrations of the auditory data representations with both real and synthetic data

"Developing Image Processing Applications on the Terasys Workstation", Supercomputing Research Center, Institute for Defense Analyses, contract no. 06227 (1993)
We have developed a system that provides the capability to encode multiparameter image data using various color models. This system allows the comparison and exploration of the potential merits of different color models for multiparameter image processing. The current system is a sequential implementation. The parallel version we are implementing under this project would allow a user to interactively select and change color models in real time. We believe that such a capability will greatly enhance the ability to detect patterns in significant application data such as medical imagery.

PUBLICATIONS

S. Smith, R. D. Bergeron, and G. Grinstein. ``Stereophonic and surface sound generation for exploratory data analysis,'' in M. Blattner and R. Dannenberg, eds., Multimedia and Multimodal Interface Design. New York: ACM Press, 1992.

S. Smith, R. M. Pickett, and M. G. Williams. ``Environments for Exploring Auditory Representations of Multidimensional Data.'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, 1992.

S. Smith and L. Scarff. ``Combining visual and IR images for sensor fusion---two approaches.'' Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE Conference on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, 1992.

S. Smith, G. Grinstein, and R. D. Bergeron. ``Interactive data exploration with a supercomputer.'' Proceedings of Visualization '91, San Diego, CA, 1991.

S. Smith, G. Grinstein, and R. M. Pickett. ``Global geometric, sound, and color controls for the visualization of scientific data.'' Proceedings of the SPIE/SPSE Conference on Electronic Imaging, 1459:192-206, 1991.

S. Smith. ``An auditory display for exploratory visualization of multidimensional data,'' in G. Grinstein and J. Encarnacao, eds., Workstations for Experiment. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1991.

S. Smith, R. D. Bergeron, and G. Grinstein. ``Stereophonic and surface sound generation for exploratory data analysis.'' Proceedings of CHI '90, Seattle, WA, 1990.

G. Grinstein and S. Smith. ``The perceptualization of scientific data.'' Proceedings of the SPIE/SPSE Conference on Electronic Imaging, 1259:190-199, 1990.

M. G. Williams, S. Smith, and G. Pecelli. ``Computer-human interface issues in the design of an intelligent workstation for scientific visualization.'' ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, (21)4:44-49, 1990.

M. G. Williams, S. Smith, and G. Pecelli. ``Experimentally driven visual language design: texture perception experiments for iconographic displays.'' Proceedings of the IEEE 1989 Visual Languages Workshop, Rome, Italy, pp. 62-67, 1989.

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