Other Links

Visualization Projects, Groups, References, Resources

Big Picture Summit (Dec 8-9, 2004) held in NYU.
Open Source Computer Vision Library from Intel.
Visualization and other Scientific Computing Facilities at NYU's Academic Computing Center.
Visualization Lab at SUNY Stony Brook.
Annotated Visualization Sites at NAS.
Computer Vision Homepage at CMU.
Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography from Keith Price at USC.
Surface approximation and multiresolution modeling bibliography from Joe Mitchell.
GIS Links:
- Go to our GIS page.
- Map Labeling Bibliography of Alexander Wolff.
- Agnes Voisard at Free University.
- International Cartographic Association/ Association Cartographique Internationale (ICA/ACI)
  - U.S. National Committee for ICA
- Americal Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM): umbrella organization for surveyors, cartographers, geodesists and other spatial data information professionals in North and South America. It has 4 member organizations:
  - The American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS) www.aagsmo.org
  - The Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CAGIS) www.cartogis.org
  - The Geographic and Land Information Society (GLIS) www.glismo.org
  - The National Society of Professional Surveyors, Inc. (NSPS) www.nspsmo.org
- GIS Conferences:
  - GISRUK 2006: GIS Research UK (April 2006, U Nottingham.
  - International Cartographic Conference (ICC): Moscow, Russia (2007), A Coruna, Spain (2005), Durban, South Africa (2003), Beijing, China (2001).
  - GIS-related conferences from U of Zurich.
- GIS Journals:
  - Cartography and Geographic Information Science, published by CAGIS
  - Cartographica, published by U Toronto (``international journal for geographic information and geovisualization'')
- GIS Books:
  - A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science by Robert B McMaster and E. Lynn Usery, CRC Press (2004)
Maps:
- NYCMap Information
- The Map Guide | Map resources at UCSD |
- National Atlas : Map Layers | Cities and Towns Map Layer | Land Cover Characteristics |
- Metropolitan Areas | The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection |
- Map Viewer at Xerox PARC | Tiger Map Server (TMS) from US Census |
- Map Blast | Map Quest | Maps On Us
Data Sets:
- The Visible Man Project.
- From US Geological Survey
- Graphical interface for ftp of DEM Data. DEM Data Guide
- Large Geometric Models Archive. Download models in PLY or in SGI's Inventor (IV) file formats. from Georgia Tech.
- Download from www.gisdatadepot.com (faster download for fee)
Software and Portals:
- Digital Terrain Mapping and Modeling using free DEM Tools. Great initial site for learning this domain: Starter tutorials, converters, etc.
- Virtual Terrain Project
- Data Translator list from GeoCommunity.
Levels of Detail Resource from M. Krus of CNRS.
Lodestar from Technical U of Vienna, a level-of-detail generator for VRML.
Voxelator Homepage, from HP. Specs of API for Volume Rendering Extension of OpenGL.

Foveated Images

Vision Chips or Seeing Silicon A survey by Alireza Moini, The University of Adelaide.
DECV (Electronic Design and VLSI Circuits) University of Valencia
Foveated Image Coding UT, Austin.
Animat Vision Demos (U of Toronto) -- simulation of foveated image in the "fish's water-world" and applications of foveated image in tracking.
The role of fixation and visual attention in object recognition MIT.
Eye Controlled Media: Present and Future State University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Local (NYU) Interest

Visualization Course, Spring 1998. Check out the Manhattan Project.
Installating and using software on /usr/unsupported/. Members of the CS department may install and use software in this directory. Here are some useful software:
- OpenGL-Mesa 2.4: free version of OpenGL implementation.
- Here is the GLUT library extension.
- vtk 2.0: Visualization Tool Kit

Computational Geometry

Gateways to the world of computational geometry:
- Erickson's CG Pages
- Eppsteins's Geometry in Action