Hall of Visitors : 2005

Brian Barsky Afiliation : EECS Computer Science Division University of California, Berkeley Address: 387 Soda Hall # 1776 Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 Phone: (510) 642-9838 Fax: (510) 642-5775 E-mail: barsky @ cs . berkeley . edu Research area : Optical, Computer Graphics, Virtual Environments for Surgical Training and Augmentation, Medical Robotics. Period of visit :

Professor of Computer Science.
Affiliate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science.

Enylton Machado Coelho Afiliation : Georgia Institute of Technology Address: 801 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 Phone: (404)894-3152 Fax: (404)894-9846 E-mail: machado@cc.gatech.edu Research area : Period of visit : February 2005

Enylton is a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. His current research is on how to facilitate AR applications that interact with multiple, different tracking sources. His research agenda is to formulate algorithms that provide tracker abstraction and real-time data fusion, to create data structures to handle the scene description, and to generate better representations for graphical augmentations. His interests include Augmented Environments, Virtual Environments, Computer Graphics and 3D Interfaces. He is also interested in how research evolves into innovation and how innovation becomes an end product.

Michael Goesele Afiliation : Max-Planck-Institute fur Informatik (MPII) Address: Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbrucken - Germany Phone: +49 681 9325 426 Fax: +49 681 9325 499 E-mail: goesele@mpi-sb.mpg.de Research area : Period of visit : February 2005

Michael Goesele is a PostDoc student at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (MPII). His Ph.D. thesis (2004) is entitled "New Acquisition Techniques for Real Objects and Light Sources in Computer Graphics". It summarizes his work on several topics related to acquisition including light sources and translucent objects.

Soraia Raupp Musse Afiliation : UNISINOS - Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas - PIPCA Address: Av. Unisinos 950 93022-000 - São Leopoldo - RS - Brazil Phone: +55 51 5911122 R. 1626 Fax: +55 51 5908162 E-mail: soraiarm@exatas.unisinos.br Research area : Virtual Human Simulation Period of visit :

Soraia Raupp Musse is an Adjunt Professor and researcher at PIPCA, UNISINOS (a private university in Brazil), and she coordinates CROMOS Lab. Your current research is in the area of Crowd Simulation, Virtual Human Agents and Behavioural Modeling.

Steven M. Drucker Afiliation : Microsoft Research - Next Media Research Address: One Microsoft Way - Redmond, WA 98052-6399 - USA Phone: Fax: E-mail: Research area : Multi-user environments, online social interaction, hypermedia, human and robot perceptual capabilities, robot learning, parallel computer graphics, human interfaces for camera control. Period of visit : May 13, 2005

Dr. Steven M. Drucker has been the lead researcher for the Next Media Research Group in Microsoft Research for the last 4 years where he has been looking at how the addition of user interaction transforms conventional media. He is particularly interested in database visualization for consumers or where art meets technology for user interfaces. While in the group, he has filed 18 patents on technologies as diverse as remotely operated personal video recorders, spectator oriented gaming, and new visualization techniques for media databases and published papers on information visualization and management.

Ross T. Whitaker Afiliation : School of Computing - University of Utah Address: 50 S. Central Campus Dr. Rm. 3190 - Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Phone: 801-581-8224 • Fax: 801-581-5843 E-mail: whitaker@cs.utah.edu Research area : Volume-Based Surface Reconstruction, Augmented Reality, Geometry-Limited Diffusion Period of visit : 4 - 14 October 2005

Assistant professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. He works in the Scientific Imaging and Computing Institute, and runs the Image Processing Laboratory. He conducts research in image processing, computer vision, and visualization.