Every day we see our world, but what would happen if we could see them differently – from a fresh perspective? The Vis Center seeks to create these new ways of seeing through engineering, history, medicine, culture, science, technology and art.
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Team members, Jonathan Lee and Ross Graham, set the mitered edges of the planters during the construction of the solar house in Washington D.C. Earning 732.152 points out of 1,000 put the University of Kentucky in ninth place overall in the competition. The contest is a project of the U.S...
On Thursday, November 5, the Vis Center hosted a full day Forum on Coal in Kentucky. Featuring nearly 20 speakers ranging from coal producers, environmentalists, regulators and researchers. Over 300 people attended the daytime sessions and another 300 attendees came out for the evening session...
University of Kentucky President Lee T. Todd Jr. and lead donor Davis Marksbury today presided over groundbreaking ceremonies for a new $18.6 million building to house the second phase of the university’s high-tech “Digital Village” concept. The ...
Construction begins on the mall in Washington D.C.The University of Kentucky is one of twenty universities worldwide invited to participate in Solar Decathlon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Faculty and students from UK are now assembling their solar house on the Mall in Washington, D.C...
3D model of waterIn recent years, modeling complex real world objects and scenes using cameras has been an active research topic in both graphics and vision. Work has been done creating 3D models of flowers, trees, hairs, urban building, human motion and cloth...
Researchers Design Method For Creating 3D Models from Videos « Center For Visualization & Virtual En
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In recent years, modeling complex real world objects and scenes using cameras has been an active research topic in both graphics and vision. Work has been done creating 3D models of flowers, trees, hairs, urban building, human motion and cloth. ...
You can now download a free iPhone application that keeps you connected to research, updates and news wherever you are. The application includes recent research projects including descriptions and photos as well as links for videos, updates from our blog and other news...
Vis Center The EDUCE project has been featured on local public radio. Listen to the story.
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- Anyone who's taken a Western Civilization class is certainly familiar with the sudden and cataclysmic destruction of the Ancient Roman Cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Now, thanks to some cutting edge ...
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UK computer experts are entering the crucial stage of their quest to unlock the secrets of two Roman scrolls buried in a volcanic eruption almost 2,000 years ago.
Vis Center Developing Real-time Covert Surveillance
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Audio recording is a typical part of covert surveillance. However, the standard technologies used such as fixed microphone arrays, shotgun microphones and parabolic microphones are useful for picking up speech from distant speakers, but limited in their use by size and position constraints. ...
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Researchers at the Vis Center recently published a paper demonstrating the system they have developed for LUT-based processing for real-time phase generation and 3-D reconstruction by means of structured light illumination. ...
Institut de France in Paris where the scanning has taken place Today the EDUCE team is packing equipment for the trip home...
Vis Center An end-to-end fly-through of a Herculaneum scroll built from CT-scans. The shape surrounding the scroll is the container used to protect the scroll during the scanning process.
Scan of Herculaneum Scroll, Pherc Paris 3After many hours of CT scanning with the SkyScan 1173, we now have complete data sets for both Herculaneum scrolls at the Institut de France. From this data the entire internal structure of the papyrus can be seen: folds, breaks, creases...
During the summer of 2007 researchers from the University of Kentucky, University of Houston, College of the Holy Cross, Furman University, and Brandeis University gathered in Venice, Italy at the Marciana Library to digitally preserve the Venetus A, the oldest existing complete text of the...
