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Current Research
Reconstruction and re-lighting

The Daedalus Project

Generating realistically lit interactive virtual environments for architectural design and planning by recovering 3D geometry and illumination data from photographs. [More...]
Virtual reality telepathy framework

Testing for Telepathy using Immersive Virtual Reality

A collaborative project with the University of Manchester School of Psychological Sciences to evaluate a novel immersive virtual reality framework for conducting research into telepathy. [More...]
Picture of protein rendered using Ambrosia

EMBRACE

A European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education: Integrating and visualising the major bioinformatics databases and tools. [More...]
Picture of protein rendered using Ambrosia

Virtual Reality as a Rehabilitative Technology for Phantom Limb Experience

An investigation into whether immersive Virtual Reality technology may be used to reduce the problems associated with Phantom Limb Pain. [More...]

Previous Research
Screenshot a hotspot analysis of BBC news web pages. Screenshot showing haptic collaboration. Screenshot of the GODIVA system.

Directed Attention

This feasibility study examined how saliency, graphical layout, and task related semantics combine to aid the process of navigation and information retrieval on Web pages. [More...]

Collaborative Haptics

This project developed and tested techniques, in collaboration with the EVE group at UNC-CH, to facilitate haptic collaboration over the Internet. [More...]

GODIVA

On this project, ways to Visualise large oceanographical data sets, using commodity hardware were developed. [More...]
Screenshot of the ARIS system. Screenshot of the DIVIPRO system. Screenshot of the DEVA system.

Augmented Reality Image Synthesis (ARIS)

Augmented Reality Image Synthesis through illumination reconstruction and its integration in interactive and shared mobile augmented reality systems was investigated on this large multi-partner European Comission project.

DIVIPRO

A system for distributed, Interactive Virtual Prototyping was developed as part of a large multi-partner European Comission project. [More...]

DEVA

A framework to support Distributed Environments for Visualisation Applications was developed on this project. [More...]
Screenshot from the REVEAL project. Screenshot from the VRLSA project. Volume rendering screenshot.

REVEAL

REVEAL investigated techniques for creating plausible virual environments with accurate global illumination and geometry based on real-world scenes. The techniques were evaluated for scene-of-crime reconstruction in collaboration with Greater Manchester Police. [More...]

VR for large scale applications (VRLSA)

VR For Large Scale Applications concentrated on the development of industrial applications and resulted in the release of our MAVERIK VR kernel. [More...]

Radiation Therapy Planning in 3D

In collaboration with the Christie Hospital in Manchester, this project investigated the use of autostereoscopic technologies for the display and direct manipulation of volumetric medical data. [More...]
News

New Scientist reports on AIG graphics research

AIG textured model capture work published at ACM SIGGRAPH is widely reported by the media. [New Scientist...] [Youtube video...] [Slashdot...] [Pressetext...]

New Scientist reports on AIG haptic research

Transatlantic haptic collaboration work with the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is reported by New Scientist. [More...] [DivX...]

Phantom Limb VR Rehab in the media

Collaborative work with the Manchester School of Psychology on relieving phantom limb pain is reported by New Scientist and BBC Radio 4. [More...] [Audio...]

BBC News Online reports on AIG VR research

Testing human telepathy work in collaboration with the Manchester School of Psychology is widely reported by the International Press. [More...]


Software

Maverik

MAVERIK version 6.2. [More...]

Kekulé

Audio browser for CML molecules. [More...]

UTOPIA

New tools and techniques to simplify the work of the bioinformatician. [More...]

Recent Publications

P. McDermott and S. Pettifer. Extending collaborative tagging for use with scientific data. In Proceedings of e-Society 2009, March 2009.

S. R. Pettifer, D. Thorne, P. McDermott, J. Marsh, A. Villéger, D. B. Kell, and T. K. Attwood. Visualising biological data: a semantic approach to tool and database integration. BMC Bioinformatics, 16, Jun 2009.

T. K. Attwood, D. B. Kell, P. Mcdermott, J. Marsh, S. R. Pettifer, and D. Thorne. Calling international rescue: knowledge lost in literature and data landslide! Biochemical Journal, Dec 2009.

C. D. Murray, S. Pettifer, T.L.J. Howard, F. Caillette E. Patchick, and Joanne Murray. Virtual solutions to phantom problems: Using immersive virtual reality to treat phantom limb pain. In C.D. Murray, editor, Amputation, Prosthesis and Phantom Limb Pain, page to appear. Springer, 2009. (in press).

A. Albin-Clark and T.L.J. Howard. Automatically generating virtual humans using evolutionary algorithms. In Proceedings of Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, page to appear, Cardiff, 2009. Eurographics.

S. Pettifer, D. Thorne, P. McDermott, T. Attwood, J. Baran, J. C. Bryne, T. Hupponen, D. Mowbray, and G. Vriend. An active registry for bioinformatics web services. Bioinformatics, 25, 2009. [ DOI | http ]

M. J. Herrgård, N. Swainston, P. Dobson, W. B. Dunn, K. Y. Arga, M. Arvas, N. Blüthgen, S. Borger, R. Costenoble, M. Heinemann, M. Hucka, N. Le Novère, P. Li, W. Liebermeister, M. L. Mo, A. P. Oliveira, D. Petranovic, S. Pettifer, E. Simeonidis, K. Smallbone, I. Spasić, D. Weichart, R. Brent, D. S. Broomhead, H. V. Westerhoff, B. Kürdar, M. Penttila, E. Klipp, B. Ø. Palsson, U. Sauer, S. G. Oliver, P. Mendes, J. Nielsen, and D. B. Kell. A consensus yeast metabolic network obtained from a community approach to systems biology. Nature Biotechnology, 26:1155 - 1160, October 2008.

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