| February, 2024
| Jiamin Wang has joined our research group as a PhD student. Welcome!
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| November, 2023
| Yalan Zhang has joined our research group as a visiting researcher. Welcome!
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| October, 2023
| (Dr.) Jun Zhou successfully defended her PhD thesis Selected Applications of Subdivision Surfaces and Numerical Quadratures for Gregory Patches, supervised by Jiri Kosinka and Jos Roerdink. Congratulations!
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| September & October, 2023
| The SVCG group has taken part in the European Researchers' Night and Zpannend Zernike events in Groningen in 2023, and also in the Bernoulli Tour 2023, with our tools: Virtual Ray Tracer (VRT), the heat tool, and VeLight.
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| September, 2023
| The paper "Depth-Dependent Halos: Illustrative Rendering of Dense Line Data" by Maarten H. Everts, Henk Bekker, Jos B. T. M. Roerdink, and Tobias Isenberg, DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2009.138, has won the IEEE VIS 14-years SciVis Test of Time Award. See https://ieeevis.org/year/2023/info/awards/test-of-time-awards.
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| September, 2023
| Christian Kehl has joined our research group as a tenure-track assistant professor. Welcome!
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| April, 2023
| Our VRT tool for ray tracing education is featured at the Imaginary event in Groningen (in front of the main lecture hall in the Bernoulli building from 1 April to 23 April). A web version of VRT adapted for Imaginary is available online.
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| February, 2023
| Yanrui Xu has joined our research group as a PhD student, and Dr. Xiaokun Wang as a visiting researcher. Welcome!
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| November, 2022
| (Dr.) Xiaorui Zhai successfully defended her PhD thesis Exploring and Explaining 3D Data Representations, supervised by Alex Telea and Lingyun Yu. Congratulations!
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| November, 2022
| We are looking for an assistant professor with an education profile for the SVCG group in the area of Visual Computing; please see the full advertisement for details.
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| November, 2022
| Zikai Yin has joined our research group as a PhD student. Welcome!
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| October, 2022
| We have prepared two activities for Zpannend Zernike, which will be presented in the Forum Groningen on 1 October and accompanied by student researchers (Chris van Wezel and Eelke Landsaat). One is Virtual Ray Tracer, an open-source tool for ray tracing education (available on GitHub, and in simplified form as a web tool and also on Google Play). The other activity is Magic with Data, an interactive tool for showing the uninitiated how (heat) data are turned into insightful visualizations, created in collaboration with Hanze University of Applied Sciences. These activities are supported by Jantina Tammes School and Aletta Jacobs School of the University of Groningen, respectively.
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| September, 2022
| (Dr.) Jieying Wang successfully defended her PhD thesis Dense medial descriptors for image compression and manipulation, supervised by Alex Telea and Jiri Kosinka. Congratulations!
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| September, 2022
| Sjoerd Bruin has joined our research group as a PhD student. Welcome!
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| August, 2022
| Our Virtual Ray Tracer educational tool is now also freely available on Google Play. Provided by Roan Rosema and his BSc thesis project in our group.
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| June, 2022
| Best educational paper award at Eurographics 2022 for our paper (and open-source educational tool) 'Virtual Ray Tracer' (Verschoore de la Houssaije, W.A., van Wezel, C.S., Frey, S., Kosinka, J.).
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| April, 2022
| Jos B.T.M. Roerdink has been appointed Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Congratulations!
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| February, 2022
| Best paper award at IVAPP 2022 for the paper 'SDR-NNP: Sharpened Dimensionality Reduction with Neural Networks' (Youngjoo Kim, Mateus Espadoto, Scott C. Trager, Jos B. T. M. Roerdink, Alexandru C. Telea).
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| February, 2022
| Cara Tursun has joined our group as tenure-track assistant professor in visual computing and perception. Welcome!
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| December, 2021
| (Dr.) Gerben Hettinga successfully defended his PhD thesis Arbitrary topology meshes in geometric design and vector graphics, supervised by Jiri Kosinka and Alex Telea. Congratulations!
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| October, 2021
| Best paper award at STAG 2021 for our paper 'Efficient Image Vectorisation Using Mesh Colours' (Hettinga, G.J., Echevarria, J., Kosinka, J.).
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| June, 2021
| (Dr.) Xingyu Chen successfully defended his PhD thesis Analysis and Exploration of Large 3D Shape Databases, supervised by Alex Telea and Jiri Kosinka. Congratulations!
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| April, 2021
| Second best paper award for our paper 'Conversion of B-rep CAD models into globally G1 triangular splines' (Hettinga G.J., Kosinka, J.) in the CAGD Special Issue on Computational Geometric Design.
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| March, 2021
| Hamid Gadirov has joined our research group as a PhD student. Welcome!
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| January, 2021
| He Kuanhao has joined our research group as a PhD student. Welcome!
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| November, 2020
| Dennis Silva has joined our research group as a PhD student. Welcome!
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| October, 2020
| Second best paper award at CGI 2020 for our paper 'Robust turbulence simulation for particle-based fluids using the Rankine vortex model' (Wang X., Liu, S., Ban, X., Xu, Y, Zhou, J., Kosinka, J.).
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| September, 2020
| Renata Raidou has joined our group as tenure-track assistant professor in visual analytics and medical visualization. Welcome!
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| September, 2020
| Heejun Lee has joined our research group as a PhD student. Welcome!
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| August, 2020
| Steffen Frey has joined our group as tenure-track assistant professor in high-performance scientific visualization. Welcome!
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| April, 2020
| Our paper "Visual Exploration of Dynamic Multichannel EEG Coherence Networks" (C. Ji, J. J. van de Gronde, N. M. Maurits, J. B. T. M. Roerdink) has been recognized as one of the most read in Computer Graphics Forum (TOP DOWNLOAD PAPER 2018-2019). Congratulations all!
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| December, 2019
| (Dr.) Pieter Barendrecht successfully defended his PhD thesis Splines for Engineers, supervised by Jiri Kosinka and Jos Roerdink. Congratulations!
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| November, 2019
| Jun Zhou has joined our research group as a PhD student. Welcome!
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| June, 2019
| Best paper award at GMP 2019 for our paper 'A bivariate C¹ subdivision scheme based on cubic half-box splines' (P.J. Barendrecht, M.A. Sabin and J. Kosinka).
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| April, 2019
| Xiaokun Wang, from USTB China, was awarded a 10-months CSC visiting-researcher scholarship in our group. His application was supported as host investigators by Alexandru Telea and Jiri Kosinka. Congratulations!
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| April, 2019
| Alexandru Telea held an invited workshop on data visualization at the 3rd Key Scientific Leaders on diabetes and obesity organized by Novo Nordisk in Brussels, Belgium.
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| April, 2019
| Alexandru Telea will have a new appointment as of June 2019 as full professor in visual data analytics at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University. His new webpage, including contact details, is here.
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| March, 2019
| Vacancy for a postdoc in machine learning and visual analytics for motion disorder classification, following a successful TOP-ZonMW grant acquisition. Contact: Alexandru Telea.
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| February, 2019
| Best paper award at IVAPP 2019 for the paper "Visual Analytics of Multidimensional Projections for Constructing Classifier Decision Boundary Maps" (M. Espadoto, F. Rodrigues, A. Telea). Congratulations!
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| November, 2018
| Alexandru Telea will hold a keynote lecture and invited course on data visualization at the Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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| October, 2018
| On Oct 5, Matthew van der Zwan successfully defended his PhD thesis on Visual Analytics of Multidimensional Time-dependent Trails. His supervisor was Alexandru Telea. Congratulations!
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| October, 2018
| We welcome in this month several new PhD students to our group: Jieying Wang, Xingyu Chen, Xiaorui Zhai, Mateus Espadoto, Lucas Pagliosa, and Caio Rodrigues. Their supervisor at the RUG will be Alexandru Telea. Welcome all!
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| September, 2018
| Our paper "Quantitative Comparison of Dynamic Treemaps for Software Evolution Visualization" (E. Vernier, J. Comba, A. Telea) has won the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE VISSOFT 2018. Congratulations all!
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| September, 2018
| Alexandru Telea will hold a keynote lecture at the Graph Drawing 2018 symposium in Barcelona (Sept 26-28, 2018).
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| June, 2018
| Best paper award, third place at SPM 2018 for our paper A direct and local method for computing polynomial Pythagorean-normal patches with global G1 continuity.
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| July, 2018
| Alexandru Telea will hold a keynote lecture on Visual Analytics Opening the Black Box of Machine Learning at the 3TU Summer School "Big Software on the Run" (July 1-6, 2018, Berg en Dal, NL).
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| June, 2018
| Alexandru Telea was awarded the Best Reviewer Award by IEEE TVCG for 2017.
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| May, 2018
| Alexandru Telea is holding a three-day course on Data Visualization at the IT Academy Noord Nederland. The course covers building information visualization applications with Tableau for IT professionals.
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| March, 2018
| Alexandru Telea will hold a keynote presentation at ICT.OPEN 2018 (Amersfoort, March 19, 2018) on visual analytics for opening the black box of machine learning.
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| March, 2018
| Alexandru Telea will hold a keynote lecture at the Data Science in the Boardroom workshop on March 15-16 organized by Venturn and the University of Groningen Business School.
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| February, 2018
| Youngjoo Kim has joined the group as a PhD student in the framework of the DSSC COFUND doctoral programme. She will work on visual analytics for multidimensional astronomical data. She is supervised by Alexandru Telea, Jos Roerdink, and Scott Trager.
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| December, 2017
| Alexandru Telea holds a one-week postgraduate course on Visual Analytics for Big Data at the University of Campinas, Brazil. This is the first course on this topic held in Brazil!
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| December, 2017
| Alexandru Telea holds a one-week postgraduate course on Visual Analytics for Big Data at the University of Campinas, Brazil. This is the first course on this topic held in Brazil!
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| September, 2017
| Our group (Alexandru Telea) has organized a 60+ participant workshop for collaborative funding at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The workshop aims to foster new cross-disciplinary collaborations around Big Data in health sciences, life sciences, and science and technology. The initiative is supported by NWO and FAPESP.
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| September, 2017
| Alexandru Telea delivered an invited lecture on Visual Analytics for Big Data at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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| September, 2017
| Cong Feng has successfully defended his PhD on skeleton-based 3D shape processing on Sept 22, 2017. He was supervised by Alexandru Telea (promotor) and dr. Andrei Jalba (TU Eindhoven, co-promotor). Congratulations!
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| June, 2017
| Alexandru Telea is co-chairing EGPGV 2017, the 17th Eurographics Symposium of Parallel Graphics and Visualization, co-located with EuroVis 2017 in Barcelona, Spain (or Catalonia).
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| June, 2017
| Best poster award at EuroVis 2017 for our poster and extended abstract.
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| May, 2017
| Alexandru Telea is holding a three-day course on Data Visualization at the IT Academy Noord Nederland. The course covers building information visualization applications with Tableau for IT professionals.
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| May, 2017
| Alexandru Telea delivered the keynote lecture to the WSCG 2017 conference in Plzen, Czech Republic. The topic is Image-Based Visual Analytics for Big Data.
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| April, 2017
| Alexandru Telea holds an invited term lecture on Information Visualization at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium.
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| April, 2017
| Best paper award at GMP 2017 for our paper Discretizing Wachspress kernels is safe.
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| February, 2017
| Paulo Rauber has successfully defended his PhD thesis on visual analytics for machine learning on February 20. This is a joint defense together with the Institute of Computing, UNICAMP, Brazil. His supervisors were profs. Alexandru Telea (RUG) and Alexandre Falcao (UNICAMP). Congratulations!
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| January, 2017
| Jos Roerdink and Alexandru Telea have been installed as members of the Ubbo Emmius Colleghie as acknowledgement of their contributions to have brought a large international event to Groningen (EuroVis'16).
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| November, 2016
| Leonid Borodaev has received the Best Thesis Award from the Dutch Test Days conference on November 18. The supervisors for his BSc thesis were dr. Rein Smedinga and prof. Alexandru Telea (RuG) and dr. Rix Groenboom (Parasoft). Congratulations!
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| November, 2016
| Prof. Alexandru Telea held an invited one-week postgraduate lecture on scientific visualization at the Center for Image Analysis, Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden (Nov. 7-11).
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| October, 2016
| Renato da Silva has successfully defended his PhD on visualizing multidimensional data similarities on October 18, 2016. His supervisors were prof. Alexandru Telea (RuG) and prof. Rosane Minghim (Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil). Congratulations!
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| October, 2016
| Prof. Joao Comba, from UFRGS Brazil, has held a CS colloquium on Visual Data Analytics of Unstructured and Big Data. The slides are here.
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| June, 2016
| Alexandru Telea has obtained a 2-year grant for researching novel information visualization technologies for developing remote towers for air traffic control. The project, called MOTO, is funded by the EU SESAR Joint Undertaking.
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| May, 2016
| Alexandru Telea is holding a three-day course on Data Visualization at the IT Academy Noord Nederland. The course covers building information visualization applications with Tableau for IT professionals.
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| April, 2016
| The cover of the Information Visualization Journal (April 2016 issue) features our work on 3D multidimensional projection explanations.
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| April, 2016
| Andre Sobiecki has successfully defended his PhD on 3D skeletonization for shape processing on April 11 2016. His supervisors were prof. Alexandru Telea (RuG) and dr. Andrei Jalba (TU Eindhoven). Congratulations!
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| March, 2016
| The University has featured a press release highlighting the PhD work of Danilo Coimbra. If you're curious to see what multidimensional data visualization has to do with football, here it is!
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| March, 2016
| Danilo Coimbra has successfully defended his PhD thesis on exploration of multidimensional multimedia data on March 18. His supervisors were profs. Alexandru Telea (RuG) and Fernando Paulovich (USP). Congratulations!
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| March, 2016
| Deborah Mudali successfully defended her PhD thesis at our university (March 14). Her supervisor was prof. Jos Roerdink. Congratulations Deborah!
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| February, 2016
| Rafael Martins successfully defended his PhD thesis at our university (Feb 29) and at the partner university of Sao Paulo (March 11). His supervisors were profs. Alexandru Telea (RuG) and Rosane Minghim (USP). Congratulations Rafael!
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| November, 2015
| On Nov 23, prof. Alexandru Telea held an invited lecture on visual analytics for software big data at the Netherlands e-Science Center symposium on the Science of Big Data Analytics & Visualization. The presentation slides are available here.
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| September, 2015
| Our paper "Explaining Neighborhood Preservation for Multidimensional Projections" received a Best Student Paper Award at Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2015!
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| September, 2015
| On the 1st of September 2015, Jiri Kosinka will join our group as tenure-track assistant professor in computer graphics, with an interest in shape modeling. Welcome!
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| June, 2015
| On 30 June, Jasper van de Gronde successfully defended his PhD thesis on tensor analysis. His promotor is prof. Jos Roerdink. Congratulations!
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| June, 2015
| Our group will organize EuroVis 2016, the most important European conference on data visualization, and second largest worldwide.
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| May, 2015
| Our MSc student, Joost Koehoorn, obtained the GUF-100 prize of the best student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in 2015. He will next compete for the RuG Excellence Award student prize on June 3, 2015. Congratulations and good luck for the final competition!
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| May, 2015
| On 18 May, Jacek Kustra successfully defended his PhD thesis on 3D point-cloud skeletonization. He was supervised by prof. Alexandru Telea and dr. Andrei Jalba (TU Eindhoven). Congratulations!
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| November, 2014
| On 28 Nov, prof. Alexandru Telea held an invited lecture at the Ngi-NGN Noord Academy on big data visual analytics and its applications in software engineering.
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| September, 2014
| The second edition of the book Data Visualization: Principles and Practice (by Alexandru Telea) was released by CRC Press! Check out also the extensive online material available (exercises, code samples, scenarios, datasets, and projects).
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| June 18, 2014
| Pan European Networks published an on-line profile for Horizon2020 projects about our group's work on Tensor Image Morphology.
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| March, 2014
| On 4 March, prof. Alexandru Telea held an invited lecture at the Target seminar at the Univ. of Groningen. A live cast of the lecture is available here.
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| March, 2014
| On 3 March, Bertjan Broeksema successfully defended his PhD thesis (director: prof. Alexandru Telea). Congratulations!
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| November, 2013
| On 21 November, prof. Alexandru Telea will hold an invited lecture at the National Dutch Testing Day on Software Visual Analytics.
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| October 2013
| Ozan Ersoy successfully defended his PhD thesis on October 25, 2013. Congratulations!
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| September 11, 2013
| Pan European Networks published an on-line profile for Horizon2020 projects about our group's work on Visualisation in Digital Science.
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| September 2013
| The first working conference on software visualization (IEEE VISSOFT 2013) will take place on Sept. 27-28 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, co-located with ICSM 2013. The conference is chaired by prof. Alexandru Telea.
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| August 2013
| Research Media published an item about our COMOTI project in its August 2013 International Innovation report. Click here.
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| July 2013
| Nuffic and Capes have approved the SIIS project (Smart Interactive Imaging Systems). SIIS partners are the Institute Johann Bernoulli and the Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (UFRGS). The grant covers the exchange of 10 undergraduate Brazilian students per year as several senior researcher visits between the two universities. SIIS aims at the development of algorithms, techniques, and tools in the areas of image analysis, synthesis, and data visualization. The project is coordinated by prof. Alexandru Telea (RuG) and prof. Marcelo Walter (UFRGS).
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| July 2013
| Our paper on GPU-ASIFT: A Fast Fully Affine-Invariant Feature Extraction Algorithm received an Outstanding Paper Runner-up Award at the IEEE HPCS 2013 conference.
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| March 2013
| Media Planet reported about some of the work we are doing in medical visualization and health care; the article is by Kees Vermeer and is entitled »Universiteiten doen onderzoek naar telecare« (Media Planet volume 3, pages 12–13, 2013)
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| March 2013
| Moritz Gerl successfully defended his PhD thesis on March 15, 2013. Congratulations!
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| February 2013
| Our paper on Dynamic graph bundling received an Honorable Mention Award at the IEEE PacificVis 2013 conference.
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| October 2012
| Our paper on “Efficient Structure-Aware Selection Techniques for 3D Point Cloud Visualizations with 2DOF Input” received an Honorable Mention Award at the IEEE Scientific Visualization conference (VisWeek).
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| September 2012
| Our papers on extracting 3D curve skeletons and on view-fusion in dynamic program understanding have received the Best Paper and Best Student Application Paper Awards at the TPCG (Eurographics UK) conference.
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| May 2012
| Andre Sobiecki has started his PhD into 3D shape reconstruction, processing, and inpainting. His work is sponsored by the Brazilian National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq). His supervisor is prof. Alexandru Telea.
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| February 2012
| Alex Telea has delivered a prestigious invited talk at the Hasso-Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany.
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| February 2012
| Bertjan Broeksema has obtained, for the second year, the prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship award for his research on visual analytics on rule-based data.
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| December 2011
| Maarten H. Everts successfully defended his PhD thesis on December 9, 2011.
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| November 2011
| Matthew van der Zwan started as PhD student in our group. He works in the i-VIRNA project on 3D image analysis.
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| October 2011
| The poster and extended abstract at IEEE BioVis 2011 about spatially continuous control of abstraction in molecular visualization by the group received the Best Abstract Award of the symposium, see the project page.
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| September 2011
| The UK, the University of Groningen's independent weekly newspaper reported about our collaboration with the university's Visualization Center on creating interactive visualizations on their large touch-sensitive display wall; the article is by Rene Fransen and is entitled »One touch is all it takes« (UK volume 41, number 6, international pages 2–3)
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| September 2011
| Alessandro Crippa successfully defended his PhD thesis on September 9, 2011.
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| August 2011
| Our group is starting a 4-year PhD research project on intelligent video-based robotic navigation (i-VIRNA) together with Lely Technologies. In this project, we will use 3D point-cloud surface reconstruction and shape analysis techniques for constructing the new generation of autonomous milking robots.
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| July 2011
| Our proposal for a 4-year Dutch-Brasilian exchange programme at PhD and senior staff level has been approved by Capes-Nuffic. In this project, we will study image-based information visualization. The coordinator from the Dutch side is prof. Alexandru Telea.
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| June 2011
| Bilkis Jamal Ferdosi successfully defended her PhD thesis on June 24, 2011.
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| April 2011
| Reuters has created a video segment about our collaboration with University of Groningen's Visualization Center on creating a very large touch-sensitive display (not »the largest« as they claim in the video, but probably »the largest curved one«)
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| February 2011
| Bertjan Broeksema has obtained a PhD Fellowship (20,000 USD) from IBM to support his Visible Rules doctoral research. IBM Fellowships are awarded by competition to the brightest PhD students who do research related to several topics of interest at IBM. The funding will support Bertjan's ongoing PhD programme.
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| November 2010
| Bertjan Broeksema has started a PhD in collaboration with IBM Research, France and the University of Bordeaux on visual analytics for business rules. He is supervised by Alexandru Telea.
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| September 2010
| Jacek Kustra (Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands) has started a PhD on robust 3D skeletonization and related applications. He is supervised by Alexandru Telea.
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| June 2010
| The paper »Image-Based Edge Bundles: Simplified Visualization of Large Graphs« received the Second Best Paper Award of the conference EuroVis 2010.
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| January 2010
| Heorhiy (George) V. Byelas successfully defended his PhD thesis on January 29, 2010.
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| January 2010
| Deborah Mudali started as a new PhD student in Jos Roerdink's group.
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| November 2009
| The poster »Illustrative Rendering of Dense Line Data using Depth-Dependent Halos« received the Best Poster Award at SIREN 2009.
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| October 2009
| The paper »Depth-Dependent Halos: Illustrative Rendering of Dense Line Data« received the Best Paper Award of the conference IEEE Visualization 2009.
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| October 2009
| Ronald van den Berg defended his PhD thesis successfully on October 16, 2009.
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| May 2009
| Ozan Ersoy started as a new PhD student in Alexandru Telea's group.
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| Spring 2009
| Some PhD Ubbo Emmius scholarships are available for work within our group for which you can apply.
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| September 2008
| Lingyun Yu started as a new PhD student in Tobias Isenberg's group.
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| June 2008
| Moritz Gerl started as a new PhD student in Tobias Isenberg's group.
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| February 2008
| Michael ten Caat defended his PhD thesis successfully on February 1, 2008.
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