Holographic data visualization: using synthetic full-parallax holography to share information

This investigation explores representing information through data visualization using the medium holography. It is an exploration from the perspective of a creative practitioner deploying a transdisciplinary approach. The task of visualizing and making use of data and “big data” has been the focus of a large number of research projects during the opening of this century. As the amount of data that can be gathered has increased in a short time our ability to comprehend and get meaning out of the numbers has been brought into attention. This project is looking at the possibility of employing threedimensional imaging using holography to visualize data and additional information. To explore the viability of the concept, this project has set out to transform the visualization of calculated energy and fluid flow data to a holographic medium. A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model of flow around a vehicle, and a model of Solar irradiation on a building were chosen to investigate the process. As no pre-existing software is available to directly transform the data into a compatible format the team worked collaboratively and transdisciplinary in order to achieve an accurate conversion from the format of the calculation and visualization tools to a configuration suitable for synthetic holography production. The project also investigates ideas for layout and design suitable for holographic visualization of energy data. Two completed holograms will be presented. Future possibilities for developing the concept of Holographic Data Visualization are briefly deliberated upon. (c) 2017, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only

A Survey on Deep Learning in Medical Image Registration: New Technologies, Uncertainty, Evaluation Metrics, and Beyond

Over the past decade, deep learning technologies have greatly advanced the field of medical image registration. The initial developments, such as ResNet-based and U-Net-based networks, laid the groundwork for deep learning-driven image registration. Subsequent progress has been made in various aspects of deep learning-based registration, including similarity measures, deformation regularizations, and uncertainty estimation. These advancements have not only enriched the field of deformable image registration but have also facilitated its application in a wide range of tasks, including atlas construction, multi-atlas segmentation, motion estimation, and 2D-3D registration. In this paper, we present a comprehensive overview of the most recent advancements in deep learning-based image registration. We begin with a concise introduction to the core concepts of deep learning-based image registration. Then, we delve into innovative network architectures, loss functions specific to registration, and methods for estimating registration uncertainty. Additionally, this paper explores appropriate evaluation metrics for assessing the performance of deep learning models in registration tasks. Finally, we highlight the practical applications of these novel techniques in medical imaging and discuss the future prospects of deep learning-based image registration

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Ort-Zeit Interpolation durch Bildbasiertes Morphen

Rendering convincing transitions between individual pictures is the main challenge in image-based rendering and keyframe animation as well as the prerequisite for many stunning visual effects. We present a perception-based method for automatic image interpolation, achieving psycho-visually plausible transitions between real-world images in real-time. Based on recent discoveries in perception research, we propose an optical flow-based warping refinement method and an adaptive non-linear image blending scheme to guarantee perceptional plausibility of the interpolated in-between images. Conventional, uncalibrated photographs suffice to convincingly interpolate across space, time, and between different objects, without the need to recover 3D scene geometry, actual motion, or camera calibration. Using off-the-shelf digital cameras, we demonstrate how to continuously navigate the viewpoint between camera positions and shutter release times, how to animate still pictures, create smooth camera motion paths, and how to convincingly morph between depictions of different objects

Music mime & metamorphosis: interdisciplinary intersections, interactions and influences between music, mime and corporate communication. Doctoral project 2 (of 3): Music, mime & metamorphosis

[Abstract]: With confirmation by Kurosawa & Davidson’s (2005) research that, ‘little investigation has been undertaken to explore the nonverbal information specified in a musical performance and its functions’ (p. 112), this paper seeks to both address that lack of investigation, and simultaneously explore areas where such ‘nonverbal information’ may be highlighted, stylised and exploited, in the interests of enhancing performer/audience communication, performance confidence and stage presence in the musical context. This paper is presented in conjunction with, refers to, and supports a series of VODcasts which constitute the primary source for this analysis/discussion, and which: a) catalogue an artistic process termed by the author, ‘Blind Collaboration’, in the recording of a contemporary music album b) provide an analysis of the effects of the non-musical aspects of live musical performance in the solo acoustic performance context c) explore the application of Mime performance techniques to the music performance context with a view to enhancing stage presence, performance confidence and the performer/audience relationship. Supplementary to and supporting the VODcasts (numbered 00 to 33 inclusive, ranging in duration from approximately 0:50 – 2:00 minutes), is the inclusion of written analyses of a variety of professional Concert performances (Appendix 2), both DVD and Live, providing both broad contextual information and specific examples. This analysis also includes performances by the author (Appendix 3)

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Hidden topology of life: life and space.

Taking into account a variety of contemporary definitions of life, I propose to focus on relations between complex systems of life processes and the evolution of our perception and concepts of space. My investigations are closely connected with a series of artistic projects under the common title The Hidden Topology of Being which are realized in cooperation with science research centers both in India and Poland. In this short presentation I do not concentrate to a great degree on the description of my artistic works but on questions of how science, humanities and cultural imageries influence each other and combine in shaping our understanding and knowledge; and how technology modulates these relations

Metamorphosis as a narrative strategy in selected South African animated films

Abstract This study examines the notion as well as the use of metamorphosis in the animated films of selected South African artists. The analysis demonstrates how metamorphosis, as a narrative strategy, is wholly appropriate to South African animation artists whose works engage with issues which tend to surface in a country in constant flux and in which the word ‘transformation’ is part of its everyday vocabulary and collective consciousness. I bring together ideas around metamorphosis from various animation writers and link these to an eclectic selection of writers in other fields. I examine W.J.T. Mitchell’s writing on the multistable image as well as the work of neuroscientist, V.S. Ramachandran in order to suggest a possible explanation for the hold that metamorphosis has over its audience. I also included an alternative history of animation via the transformative, Vaudeville performances of chapeaugraphy, shadowgraphy and Quick-Change. In addition I differentiate between the digital morph as exemplified in the music video to Michael Jackson’s Black or White (1991) and the type of hand-drawn metamorphosis in the work of William Kentridge. The issue at stake here is the ability of the morph to transgress arbitrary boundaries of categorisation versus its tendency to obliterate otherness and inculcate sameness. For my case studies I examine William Kentridge’s use of metamorphosis in his Drawings for Projection and how metamorphosis is apparent not only in the transformation of one object into another, but at the level of the medium itself. Here I look at how his work is infused with metaphor through the palimpsetic traces left behind by the incomplete erasures of his technique. As a loose framework around the discussion of metaphor I look at the theories of Paul Ricoeur and the more poetic writing of Cynthia Ozick. In the on-going time lapse collaboration project Minutes by Mocke Lodewyk Jansen van Veuren and Theresa Collins I examine how both the city and our experience of time and space is transformed through time lapse animation and how this transformation enables an analysis of spatial practice that can be utilized in future urban renewal programmes. In my own work, I am interested in exploring the theme of origins. I look at genetics and cosmology as well as Deleuze’s theory of individuation and how they all seem to incorporate a kind of ‘metastable state’ of infinite potential that is similar to Eisenstein’s “plasmaticness”. As a visual idiom I use static ‘snow’ or ‘noise’ in animation, video work and drawings; conceptually harnessing the idea that static contains residual radiation left over from the birth of the universe. Static noise is the medium through which I create portraits of my father and encounter my own ‘genetic‘ self-portrait. I also analyse some of the work on physical actions by theatre theorist and director Jerzy Grotowski. From Grotowski, I have begun to understand certain performative aspects around gesture and the simultaneous portrait/self-portrait see-saw of my work