Graphics and VR Research

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Graphics and VR Research

• Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal
• Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Email semwal_at_cs.uccs.edu
• Phone [phone]

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Equipment and Software

• Silicon Graphics systems (3)
• CrystalEyes 3D Stereo Glasses (1)
• Ultrasound tracker (1)
• 3D Touch PHANToM force feedback device (1)

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Equipment and Software

• Sense8s World Tool Kit (WTK) (1)
• OpenGL (standard on SGIs)
• AliasWavefront Maya-Unlimited Animation system
  (1)

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Research Support and Partnership

• Advanced Telecommunication and Research Lab.
  (ATR) Kyoto, Japan
• Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque
• Matsushita (Panasonic), Osaka, Japan
• U of Colorado, Health Science Center, Denver
• Colorado Center of Chaos and Complexity
• Non Verbal Information Processing An
  international Consortium

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Research Areas

• Wearable Computing
• 3D Virtual Humans / Avatars
• Touch and Visually Impaired
• Tele-Surgery
• Complex System Research in VE
• Camera based Virtual Environments
• Wayfinding in Virtual Environments
• 3D Realistic rendering Terrains

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Courses in Graphics and VR

• Introduction to Graphics (CS480/CS580)
• Advanced Computer Graphics (CS581)
• Computational Geometry (CS575)
• Geometric Modeling (CS576)
• Animation and Visualization (CS577)
• Human Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality
  (CS677)

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Graduate students

• 33 MS, 1 Ph.D. graduated since 1989
• Working with 8 MS and two Ph.D. students