David Ebert's Research, Grants, Committees, Publications, Images

Research Interests

My general areas of interest are computer graphics, animation, and scientific visualization. More specifically, I am interested in volume visualization, medical and information visualization, realistic rendering and visualization techniques, especially for gases and fluids, procedural modeling, texturing, rendering, and animation techniques, and advanced illumination and shadowing techniques. For more information on some of projects, visit the Graphics, Animation, and Visualization Lab (GAVL) home page. My current research falls into the following 3 categories:

Effective Volumetric Visualization. I am working on perceptually meaningful volumetric visualization techniques and exploring how they can be used for information visualization, medical visualization, and scientific visualization.
Procedural Techniques for Computer Graphics. I have done much work on procedural texturing techniques, procedural modeling, and procedural animation.
Volumetric Displays. We have a project to develop software to drive a 3D glass cube volumetric display system. We are also evaluating the usefulness of this technoloqy for a variety of applications.

Recent Grants

Ebert, D., "Visualization and Software Architectures for Volumetric Displays," National Science Foundataion (~$306,000), September 1999 - August 2002.
Ebert, D. ""Procedural Rendering Research Using Alias/Wavefront Maya," Alias/Wavefront ($284,900 in software). August 1998 - May 2000.
Nicholas, C., Ebert, D., Miller, E. "Architectures for Data Driven Information Processing," Department of Defense ($2,998,378). June 1997 - April 2002.
Ebert, D. "Volumetric Display of Earth and Space Science Data," NASA GSFC, $44,000. January 1998 - December 1998.
Ebert, D. "Volumetric Display of Earth and Space Science Data," NASA GSFC, $7667. June 1997-September 1997.

Roberts, D.A., Ebert, D., Goldstein, M, Treinish, L, Spicer, D. "Desktop Sterescopic Visualization and Analysis of Multi-Dimensional Data Sets," NASA ($541,300). January 1997 - December 1999. (UMBC portion ~$190,000)

Ebert, D. "Interactive Stereo Volume Visualization for Space Physics Data," NASA ($69,571). January 1995 - May 1997.
Ebert, D. "Enhanced Accurate Medical Volume Rendering," JHU University Medical Center ($4,058). July 1996 - August 1996.
Ebert, D. "BFRL HTML Conversion and Automation," National Institute of Standards and Technology ($15,909), May 1995.
Ebert, D., "RIA: Realistic Interactive Visualization for Computational Fluid Dynamics," NSF RIA CCR-9409243 ($61,168), September, 1994. Duration: 3 years
Ebert, D., "Realistic Interactive Visualization for Computational Flows," UMBC DRIF award ($4500), May, 1994.

Books

Texturing & Modeling: A Procedural Approach, Second Edition
released at SIGGRAPH 98, ISBN 0-12-228730-4 !
I also was invited to write a chapter for the new CRC Computer Science and Engineering Handbook :

Ebert, D. "Advanced Geometric Modeling," Chapter 12, CRC Computer Science and Engineering Handbook, 1996.

Some Images

Realistic Visualization Research Images

Procedural Images

Graphics Committees and Activities

IEEE Visualization '99 Papers Co-chair

IEEE Visualization '98 Papers Co-chair

SIGGRAPH 99 Emerging Technologies Committee
SIGGRAPH 98 Technical Sketches Chair

SIGGRAPH 97 Sketches Chair

SIGGRAPH 96 Courses Committee

IEEE Visualization '97 Hot Topics Co-chair

IEEE Information Visualization '97 Symposium Committee

IEEE Visualization '96 Hot Topics Chair

CIKM New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation (NPIV '96) Symposium - Program Chair

CIKM New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation (NPIV '95) Symposium - Program committee

IEEE Volume Visualization '96 Symposium Committee

IEEE Volume Visualization '94 Symposium Committee

Events/ Talks

Talk and book signing for "Texturing and Modeling", Jan 11, 1997.

Vis96 Talk InfoVis96 Talk

Northrop Grumman Talk

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