Jobs

Student Worker for CAMERA Meta-Data Visualization

We are looking for a student to create an autonomously running demonstration program out of the existing CAMERA Meta-Data Visualization project. It will need to run in two visualization modes: as a stand-alone, non-interactive display on a large LCD or plasma display, and as an interactive application in the StarCAVE.

Qualifications:

• Candidates must have programming experience in C++ and OpenGL.
• Experience with Linux systems is required.
• Candidates must be comfortable to work as part of a team.

Student researcher and senior lab consultant for CAMERA project

Project Description:

We are looking for a student to work on our Protein Data Bank (PDB) browser software in the StarCAVE. We are looking to extend our existing software system for protein visualization to support protein matching, a measurement tool for distance, protein browsing, and a level-of-detail visualization method to render large numbers of proteins.

Qualifications:

• Candidates must have programming experience in C++ and OpenGL.
• Experience with Linux systems is required.
• Candidates must be comfortable to work as part of a team.

Post-Doc for Virtual Reality Research

We are looking for a post-doc with experience in the fields of computer graphics and virtual reality to do exciting research projects involving our high-end virtual reality equipment (StarCAVE, Varrier, C-Wall).

Contact: Jurgen Schulze (jschulze AT ucsd.edu).

Posted 2/20/08

Paid Student Positions: Computer Graphics, Visualization, Networking, Computer Vision and/or Visual Analytics

The National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) located at UCSD and at Calit2 (http://www.ncmir.ucsd.edu) is s looking for several talented, creative and enthusiastic students with programming ability to develop software for a variety of research projects. The positions offer students the opportunity to work with leading edge media and interactive technologies such as HD streams, high-resolution (100 M pixel-plus) displays, ultra-high resolution imaging data, and 3D IR-based optical tracking systems. There is the opportunity for students to develop some of the research in to thesis projects and to participate in authoring of publications.

The range of possible projects includes:

• approaches for the use of immersive virtual reality and ultra high- resolution displays for real-time interaction with massive data sets, including real-time simulations
• superimposition and alignment at interactive frame-rates of arbitrary numbers of volume datasets, each volume with an arbitrary number of channels, and of arbitrary sizes
• visualization and visual analytics approaches for working with massively multi-scale, multi-modal, multi-resolution data and associated contextual metadata
• approaches for automated or semi-automated segmentation of biomedical imaging data including 3D electron tomography and confocal wide-field light microscopy
• approaches for up-cycling and improving the quality of meshes to generate geometries suitable for numerical/computational simulations of biological systems constrained by spatial realism
• computer vision approaches to natural, full-body interfaces, including gesture recognition, for interaction with high-resolution displays (100M pixels +) and auto-stereographic displays

Qualifications required vary depending on the project. Being comfortable designing and developing software collaboratively is important since many of these are collaborative research projects and students will work with faculty and visualization scientists at CALIT2, NCMIR, and CSE.

For more information please contact: Ruth West (rwest at ncmir.ucsd.edu), Iman Mostafavi (imostafa at cs.ucsd.edu) and/or Matthias Zwicker (matthias at graphics.ucsd.edu)

Posted 11/19/07