Research interests
I am interested in projects related to real-time volume visualization and interaction. I am currently working on a volume-based temporal bone surgery simulator. I am also interested in ways to enhance realism for medical applications.
Publications
- Thomas Kerwin, Han-Wei Shen, Don Stredney, Capture and Review of Interactive Volumetric Manipulations for Surgical Training in proceedings of the International Workshop on Volume Graphics 2006 (VG06)
- Gayla L. Poling, Janet M. Weisenberger, Thomas Kerwin, The Role of Multisensory Feedback in Haptic Surface Perception in proceedings of HAPTICS 2003
Class projects
- Images from my class project parallel ray tracer Photon
- A survey of treemap techniques
- A simple refraction fragment shader.
- Some experiments with tone mapping.
- Motion blur extension for pbrt.
- Worley noise in pbrt.
- Visualzation of protein field data.
- Medical visualization and image processing using VTK/ITK.
- Classification of languages using hidden Markov models and k-nearest neighbor.
- Earthquake simulation visualization.
- Parallel sorting on GPU clusters.
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