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Given by Geoffrey Fox, Marek Podgorny,Scott Klasky,Roman Markowski,Michael Davis(Vanguard Research Inc.) at Rome Laboratory CIV Quarterly Review on 24 February 97. Foils prepared 23 February 97
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This covers the Agenda for the meeting and 3 of the 4 Applications
Command and Control (Davis)
Medicine/Visible Human (Markowski)
Weather (Klasky)
Intermixed with CIV Technologies which are Collaboration and conferencing
as well as 3D GIS

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1 CIV Quarterly Review Meeting Syracuse, Feb. 24. `97
2 Meeting Agenda
3 Meeting Agenda
4 Meeting Agenda
5 Meeting Agenda
6 CIV C2 Application Review
7 Areas of Discussion
8 Overall Status
9 Overall Status
10 Scenario: Background
11 Scenario: Status
12 C2 Application: Background
13 C2 Application: Status
14 Key Issues
15 TangoSim Benefits to DoD Command and Control -- 1
16 TangoSim Benefits to DoD Command and Control -- 2
17 TangoSim Benefits to DoD Command and Control -- 3
18 TangoSim Benefits to DoD Command and Control -- 4
19 Recommended Future Directions --1
20 Recommended Future Directions -- 2
21 Recommended Future Directions -- 3
22 Recommended Future Directions -- 4
23 Recommended Future Directions -- 5
24 Recommended Future Directions -- 6
25 C2 Application: Enhancements
26 C2 Application: Enhancements
27 C2 Application Demo
28 TANGO Framework
29 TANGO Highlights
30 TANGO Highlights
31 New Collaborative Modules
32 New Collaborative Modules
33 Videoconferencing System
34 EM Application
35 Weather Application
36 Current Weather
37 Current Weather 3D
38 Capabilities of NPAC's current weather viewer
39 Capabilities of NPAC's current weather viewer
40 Future work on Current Weather Data
41 3D Data Analysis for Weather Forecast
42 3D Data Analysis for Weather Forecast
43 3D Data Analysis for Weather Forecast
44 Medical Application
45 Medical Application
46 Collaborative Visible Human Applet
47 3D Visualization of VH Data
48 Wavelet Compression
49 Wavelet-based Viewer for Medical Images
50 GIS Database Support
51 GIS Database Support
52 Video on Demand support
53 Meeting wrap-up

This table of Contents Abstract

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Foil 1 CIV Quarterly Review Meeting Syracuse, Feb. 24. `97

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Geoffrey C. Fox, Marek Podgorny
with NPAC CIV TEAM
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Foil 2 Meeting Agenda

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We will report progress for all four application areas
In addition, progress in selected technology areas will be discussed
The overall presentation structure is an interleaved stream of short briefings and technology demonstrations
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Foil 3 Meeting Agenda

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C2 Application
  • Briefing by Vanguard Research
  • Short summary of technological progress since last review meeting
  • Demonstration of the scripted demo
Technology enhancement of the Tango frame-work since last review meeting
  • new capability: collaborative JavaScript/HTML
  • TANGO audioconferencing support
  • Videoconferencing system with archival capability
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Foil 4 Meeting Agenda

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EM Applications
  • 3D visualization of GMACS results
Weather Application
  • 2D and 3D visualization system for current weather
  • 3D visualization of weather forecast data
Telemedicine Application
  • collaborative 2D and 3D visualization
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Foil 5 Meeting Agenda

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Technology enhancements for the GIS and database support efforts
  • GIS database implementation
  • DEM, satellite image, and map databases for 3D GIS
  • Video database: delivery technology and integration with collaborative framework
Meeting Wrap-up
  • Discussion of priorities for the next quarter
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Foil 6 CIV C2 Application Review

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Michael T. Davis
Vanguard Research, Inc.
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Foil 7 Areas of Discussion

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Scenario activities
C2 Application
TangoSim Benefits to Command and Control
Recommended Future Directions
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Foil 8 Overall Status

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CIV C2 Status
  • Scenario script refined and completed from threat detection to threat disappearance over Long Island Sound
  • Script decision points inserted but not activated for this demo
    • Transfer control of bogie from FAA to NORA
    • Air National Guard Bases used to launch interceptors
  • C2 Application's visualizations being refined and enhanced
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Foil 9 Overall Status

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Schedule
  • Complete C2 Application visualizations by end of March
  • Initial crash site remediation visualizations by mid April
  • Complete scenario script with decision branch points through remediation by mid May
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Foil 10 Scenario: Background

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Script development team consists of NPAC and VRI personnel
TangoSim script
  • Plays the surrogate participant roles
  • Starts with an airborne threat detection
  • Currently ends with loss of radar contact of airborne threat
  • Will end with crash site of airborne threat under FEMA, state, and local municipality control for quarantine and cleanup
  • Will contain decision points to allow alternate outcomes
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Foil 11 Scenario: Status

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Accomplishments
  • Threat detection completed
  • Threat interception TBD
  • Threat handling TBD
  • Crash site quarantine and cleanup TBD
Learned since last demo
  • Require a scenario script generator with spreadsheet and GUI capabilities to allow rapid and accurate development of TangoSim scripts
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Foil 12 C2 Application: Background

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C2 development team consists of VRI personnel
C2 application
  • Provides NORAD participant's displays and directives
  • Command and Control Display (Granite Sentry GIS)
  • Radar Operator Display (2D and 3D Threat tracking)
  • Weather Display
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Foil 13 C2 Application: Status

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Accomplishments
  • Display and tracking of airborne threat
  • Geo-referenced maps
  • Capability to request advice and issue directives from C2 display
Learned since last demo
  • A track data base would better suit the display of airborne contacts across different displays and simplify the script
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Foil 14 Key Issues

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Activate scenario decision points
  • Each decision node will require at least two scripted event traces/timelines
Enable live participants to replace surrogate participants
  • Live participants require some time independence of participant driven events within the scripted scenario
Increase number, variations, and information content of visualizations
  • Status of Forces
  • Bogie aircraft and weapon specifications
  • Bogie crash site effects and contamination plume
  • Locations of cleanup equipment
  • Quarantine and cleanup of crash site
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Foil 15 TangoSim Benefits to DoD Command and Control -- 1

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Pervasive technologies
  • Leverages existing web-based technologies
    • e.g., Tango-Sim can be implemented at C2 centers in very near term with minimal cost
  • Incorporates a powerful web browser which permits easy access by C2 centers to many web based databases
  • Enables collaborations between multi-service, non-collocated C2 centers
    • Tango-Sim locations can be linked together to provide hierarchical systems as required
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Foil 16 TangoSim Benefits to DoD Command and Control -- 2

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Pervasive Technologies, cont.
  • Allows nesting of hierarchical collaborative sessions
    • e.g., staffs may hold collaborative sessions to provide real-time support to C2 center division heads who are participating in a higher level collaborative session
  • Simplifies interfacing of existing non-web based C2 databases by providing a host of web based standards and applications
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Foil 17 TangoSim Benefits to DoD Command and Control -- 3

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Tango-Sim powerful functionality provides:
  • Multiple, simultaneous collaborative interactions by a single participant
  • High information content visualizations
  • Audio and video on demand
  • Web-based teleconferencing
  • Interactions with surrogate participants
  • Rapid C2 prototyping and usability testing
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Foil 18 TangoSim Benefits to DoD Command and Control -- 4

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Tango-Sim database capabilities:
  • Provide an excellent test bed for recording, measuring, and evaluating:
    • Collaborative interactions between C2 staffs
    • Usability and information content of various visualizations of the same data
  • Enable repeatable collaborative experiments
    • How does one measure the effectiveness of a collaboration ?
    • How does one measure and compare two or more collaborative applications ?
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Foil 19 Recommended Future Directions --1

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Collaborative DoD C2 Applications with associated visualizations
  • Pre-planning courses of actions
    • Deployment of assets
    • Scheduling of events and sequences of decisions
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Foil 20 Recommended Future Directions -- 2

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Threat Detection
  • Sensor specifications/capabilities (range, accuracy, resolution, frequency of contacts)
  • Threat location, speed, heading, altitude
  • Threat capabilities
  • Possible threat scenarios and timelines
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Foil 21 Recommended Future Directions -- 3

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Collaborative DoD C2 Applications with associated visualizations (continued)
  • Situational Assessment
    • Estimated time of arrival, intercept, contact, or impact
    • Own status of forces and response times/capabilities
    • Available resources and assets to respond to threat
    • Threat forces and order of battle
    • Intel reports and assessments
    • Weather and terrain effects
    • Available communications and bandwidth
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Foil 22 Recommended Future Directions -- 4

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Collaborative DoD C2 Applications with associated visualizations (continued)
  • Issue Commands and Directives
    • Select and activate course of action
    • Redeploy assets
    • Allocate resources
  • Evaluate Results
    • Monitor response of own forces with respect to threat forces and activities
    • Track effectiveness of activities of own and threat forces
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Foil 23 Recommended Future Directions -- 5

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Collaborative DoD Logistics Applications with associated visualizations
  • Location, quantities, and shipping sizes/weights of stores and supplies
  • Stores' and supplies' constraints
  • Location and readiness of transportation assets
  • Capabilities of transportation assets
  • Throughput capacity of transportation nodes and depots
  • Scheduling constraints
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Foil 24 Recommended Future Directions -- 6

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Collaborative DoD Operational Applications with associated visualizations
  • Mission planning
  • Mission monitoring and control
  • Mission evaluation
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Foil 25 C2 Application: Enhancements

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Changes/additions since last presentation:
  • completely new 2D GIS applet
    • initial implementation replaced by a mapping toolkit with flexible navigation capability
    • georeferenced coordination system for both 2D and 3D GIS
    • 3D GIS interface redesigned to cooperate with new 2D GIS
  • redesigned scripting language
    • relative instead of absolute time marks
    • support for simulation branching points
    • enhanced multithreaded architecture of the Simulation Engine
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Foil 26 C2 Application: Enhancements

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Changes/additions since last presentation:
  • Weather application integrated, collaborative, and scriptable
  • New C2 components
    • completely new chat applet with URL parser
    • voter applet
    • directive applet
    • Status of Force applet
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Foil 27 C2 Application Demo

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Foil 28 TANGO Framework

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VTC
Collaboratory
Server
Multicast
Network
Medium
C2 Workstation
Web/DB Servers
C2 Workstation
Databases
DBMS
VTC
GIS
Viewer
GIS
Viewer
Web
Server
Simulation
Driver -
Event
Generator
Scripted
Participant
Active Participants
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Foil 29 TANGO Highlights

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Entirely Web-based system (runtime implemented in Java)
Able to tap any information resources
Self-distributing software model (applets not applications)
Unrestricted inter-applet communication
Supports all basic collaboratory functions:
  • statefull system, security/session management, data/event distribution, scaleable multimedia support (VTC, digital networked video)
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Foil 30 TANGO Highlights

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Language independent: support for non-Java applications
  • APIs available for Java, C, C++
Archiving system for session replays
  • Relational database backend
Dynamic and flexible master-slave mode
Entirely open, extensible system with growing set of applications
Multiplatform: SGI/Sun/Win 95/NT
TANGOsim mode provides support for discrete event simulations
Used in C2, telemedicine, and weather CIV apps.
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Foil 31 New Collaborative Modules

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Collaborative JavaScript/HTML
  • TANGO capabilities have been extended to support standard client side (browser) applications
  • This capability has been enabled by the new TANGO API for JavaScript and by integration of Web crawler technology into the framework
  • Implements Information Space paradigm
    • automatic creation of shared web pages with arbitrary contents
    • full control over shared navigation process
  • Application example: remote collaborative briefing technology (WebWisdom) - demonstration
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Foil 32 New Collaborative Modules

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Tango audio teleconferencing system
  • architecture akin to OpenDVE/LiveMedia run time
  • distributed multimedia conference engine
  • session setup controlled by Tango
  • multiplatform (UNIX, Windows 95/NT), interoperable
  • supports multiple codecs
  • video counterpart expected a month form now.
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Foil 33 Videoconferencing System

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A portable, interplatform audio/video teleconfe-rencing system
  • architecture akin OpenDVE/LiveMedia run time
  • completely rewritten conference engine
  • multiplatform (UNIX, Windows 95/NT), interoperable
  • supports multiple codecs (audio and video) for different link categories:
    • phone line, ISDN line, LAN
  • multimedia archiving system has been implemented
  • full integration with TANGO is pending
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Foil 34 EM Application

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Foil 35 Weather Application

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Web based Weather Prediction Analysis
Ki, Klasky, Trzaska
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Foil 36 Current Weather

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UCAR
4 Processor SGI
8 Processor SGI
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Foil 37 Current Weather 3D

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Given current weather for
over 500 cities, we determine
which locations have rain or
snow, and determine the
coordinates of these events.
This is animated in VRML 2.0
by using the animation nodes.
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Foil 38 Capabilities of NPAC's current weather viewer

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Animations can play images for the previous 3 days.
  • Data retention period can be modified
Close up capabilities for all regions over the United States.
Interactive weather browser, which can let a user point and click to determine the current weather over any region of the continental US.
Capability to view text based weather for over 500 US. cities. This includes current weather, net day forecasts, extended forecasts, and average conditions/month.
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Foil 39 Capabilities of NPAC's current weather viewer

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3D Animation of current weather is generated on-the-fly.
Radar data can show where severe weather is, and can be animated to watch these effect move across the region.
The system is designed and implemented to handle high resolution NextRAD data
  • NextRAD data is only available commercially
2D part of the system has been integrated with Tango collaboratory and is fully scriptable, hence integrable with the C2 application
  • 100% web-based, supports remote display functionality
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Foil 40 Future work on Current Weather Data

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Beta tests of the Java code.
Better help facility.
Future work on 3D Current weather data.
  • Implementation will take place in VRML 2.0.
  • Integration with GIS: Adaptive triangulation will be used to generate the terrain over small pieces of each state, which will then be "pieced together" through Java scripting nodes.
  • Interactive 3D sounds. When one is around a region which is raining, we will have sounds for the rain, etc..
  • Animation of the weather in 3D. We will be able to animate the clouds through past data.
  • We will add collaboratory functionality to 3D display.
  • Status: designed, ongoing implementation
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Foil 41 3D Data Analysis for Weather Forecast

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This task is related to supercomputing weather forecast visualization.
Status reminder:
  • Ongoing work in Oklahoma's CAPS for Lake Effect snow
  • NPAC focus: build visualization tools in anticipation of conclusion of Oklahoma's work
  • Adopted standard for weather data representation: VIS5D files defined by University of Wisconsin
  • CAPS code output will be converted to VIS5D format
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Foil 42 3D Data Analysis for Weather Forecast

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We are currently obtaining VIS5D files from the University of Wisconsin.
  • Download twice a day, saved on NPAC's 8 processor SGI (>20MB/file, 4 files per download).
  • VIS5D files are read in Java "native" language.
  • Files are then passed into filters which construct the data in a format which can be viewed in Open Inventor.
We have support for the following filters:
  • Colored 2d Surfaces
  • Isosurfaces.
  • Vector Graphics.
  • Volumetric rendering.
Animations are possible since the data holds multiple time slices.
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Foil 43 3D Data Analysis for Weather Forecast

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Task status:
  • Data acquisition and data filters implemented
  • Open Inventor visualization tools for different filters implemented
  • Ongoing work:
    • integration with 3D GIS displays
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Foil 44 Medical Application

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Zeynep Odcikin-Ozdemir, Tomasz Major, Roman Markowski
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Foil 45 Medical Application

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3D Visible Human (stereographic mode)
  • continuation of the main 3D visualization effort
Collaborative Visible Human Applet
  • integrates all elements of the telemedical application and provides collaboratory support
Wavelet-based viewer for medical images
  • capitalizes on and promotes to the application level our earlier wavelet compression research work
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Foil 46 Collaborative Visible Human Applet

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http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/vishuman/
http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/3Dvisiblehuman
  • Visible Human Project, Format of data (MRI, CT, anatomical), data preparation
  • Java-based 2D applet - axial, coronal and sagital slices
  • Segmentation procedure - brain, skin, leg muscles
  • VRML files and MPEG movies
Segmented Data for Visible Human is now available commercially from Gold Standard Multimedia
  • price tag: $250K per body part, $1M for the entire body
Demo: 2D and 3D Viewer of Visible Human Data Integrated with Tango
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Foil 47 3D Visualization of VH Data

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Image Clipper --> Segmentation --> SGI Explorer -->OpenInventor/VRML
  • head : #points 85,216 #polygons 23,739 size 8MB
  • brain: #points 32,656 #polygons 8,667 size 3MB
  • leg: #points 216,146 #polygons 56,626 size 18 MB
  • other organs (heart, stomach, etc.) converted from AutoCAD to Open Inventor
Stereo Visualization
  • quad stereo approach
  • divided-screen stereo approach
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Foil 48 Wavelet Compression

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Wavelet technology suitable for compression of natural scenes with high compression ratios
Lossy compression- selectively disregards "less important" information
Controversy: what is important and what is not (legal issues)
Wavelet-based compression is superior to all other compression technologies (keeps details, high compression ratios)
  • wavelet transformation, quantization, coding
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Foil 49 Wavelet-based Viewer for Medical Images

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Implementation
  • standalone codec (wv3e, wv3d, wvr3e, wvr3d)
  • applet viewer (decompression and display)
  • application integrated with Tango (whiteboard)
Comparison with Accupress, Aware, Inc.
  • source code available
  • file formats: raw, rgb, ppm, yuv, raf (any 2 var func)
  • functionality: codec for color and black&white images
  • better encoding/decoding time, better quality represented by PSNR [db]
Demo: Integration with Tango
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Foil 50 GIS Database Support

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Ongoing activities
  • evalauation of the DEM, satellite image and map data sources
    • Demo: Terrain visualization for Denver area using
      • multispectral 25m resolution EOSAT images
      • public domain DEM
      • commercial digital maps
      • matching algorithms implemented
    • Will acquire identical data for entire New York State
    • Evaluate tools for creation of better composite color images from multispectral data
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Foil 51 GIS Database Support

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Ongoing activities, cont.
  • Analyzed applicability of public domain GIS data for CIV project
    • Relational database repository (Illustra) for the TIGER/Line data is under construction. This will include as well the census data file.
  • 3D GIS viewers are being extended to provide "point and click" link capabilty
  • This capability will be supplemented by spatial query capabilities against the TIGER/Line/Census database
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Foil 52 Video on Demand support

From Main CIV Presentation: Technology and 3 Applications Rome Laboratory CIV Quarterly Review -- 24 February 97. * See also color IMAGE
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NPAC VoD architecture is being integrated with TANGO
  • Collaborative mode: master - slave mode
    • unicast, fully interactive link between the server and master client
    • multicast used to transfer data to the slave video clients
    • session control under control of TANGO
  • Current archiving capability of the videoconferencing system developed for CIV will be extended by using video server as a searchable data repository
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Foil 53 Meeting wrap-up

From Main CIV Presentation: Technology and 3 Applications Rome Laboratory CIV Quarterly Review -- 24 February 97. * See also color IMAGE
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Solicitation of input from the funding agency regarding short-term priorities.
  • Current pace in system functional enhancements cannot be sustained without giving up software quality and robustness
  • It is necessary to accept a trade-off between further functional enhancements and final software robustness and quality
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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