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You are looking for a project (summer internship, Master thesis, ...), we can propose a lot of different things in the "Computer sciences" or "Physics" domain. If you have any special skills or wants to do something special, visit us (Prof. Henri Bal at CS, or Hans Spoelder at Physics, room T108) and we can find out something for you.

"Computer Sciences" subjects

Wall-oriented (large, high-resolution, tiled-displays setup)

• Information visualization on the wall (showroom)
  • Globe
    • Web server
    • "Debugger" : traffic, coherence, security
    • Globe e-commerce rooms : visualization, interaction
  • Wide-area cluster performance metrics : latency, bandwidth, weather network data
  • Presentation software or "beyond PowerPoint" : Flash, XML, 3D, integration of sound, animation, images, documents

   

• Parallel graphics
  • Programming environment for 3D graphics on a PC cluster driving a tiled-display setup
  • Sorting algorithms, scene decomposition, load-balancing, ...
  • Integration within our environment CAVEStudy
  • Video ?? (parallel MPEG decoding and display)

   

• Interaction on the Wall
  • Input devices (keyboard, mouse, joypad, pointer, tracker, ...)
  • Programming
  • Integration within our environment CAVEStudy

 

CAVEStudy-oriented

• "Simulation mining"
  • Simulation management : control, trigger management
  • Parameter space exploration : transparent batch system

   

• CAVEStudy and Java
  • Link with high-performance Java on DAS

   

VR-oriented

• Sound in VR
  • 3D sound, surround, ...
  • Speech recognition

   

• Wide-area collaboration
  • How to collabore in virtual worlds
  • Multi environment : workstation, Wall, CAVE
  • Amsterdam from/to Chicago (Jason Leigh, EVL)

   

Physics subjects

Wall and VR oriented

• Auto-calibration of a set of video projectors (beamers)
  • Cameras and projectors working in sync
  • Alignment,
  • Color correction

• Implementation of measuring interaction widgets
  • Selection : volume, surface
  • Measuring : distance, volume, counting, derived values, ...
  • Application : gas simulation, particle tracking, molecule
    

Simulation and visualization oriented

• 3D forces in molecular dynamics
  • NAMD molecular dynamics package accepts the expression of 3D forces to steer the simulation (docking experiments)
  • Input 3D force in CAVE with a tracker or a data-glove
    
    
• New visualization/interaction on the diode laser simulation
  • Multi dimension data set
  • Coupling with of real data from the laser lab
  • "Poincare" projection map, ...
    
    
• Image processing
  • Enhancement of local-CT scans
  • Extracting the tooth from the bone and muscle
    
    
• Medical applications
      - Electrical probes in heart
      - Various visualization : lung, thorax, ...