Stefan Birmanns, PhD

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Assistant Professor, Health Information Sciences

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Stefan.Birmanns@uth.tmc.edu
7000 Fannin, Suite 600 Houston, TX 77030

Voice: 713-500-3980
Fax: 713-500-3929

Education

MS 1999 University of Aachen, Germany (Computer Science)
PhD 2003 University of Aachen, Germany (Computer Science)

Research Areas

Biocomputing
Molecular Modeling
Virtual Reality
Haptic Rendering
Visualization
Macromolecular Machines
Image Processing

I am interested in haptic rendering, the research area where one creates artificial tactile sensations by using special haptic devices. As the human tactile sensoric system has a very high temporal resolution, this research area is as challenging as interesting. We are using haptic rendering for interactive multiresolution fitting of biophysical data sets.

Haptic rendering is often considered to be a branch of Virtual Reality research, where one enables the user to experience the artificial computer generated worlds in a realistic way. The goal is to support the user to explore and manipulate the gigantic data structures created by experiment or simulation nowadays. Exploration of macromolcular structures and electron microscopy density maps are typical applications in our lab.

vrtheater Virtual Reality research is closely tied to visualization where one creates visual representations of data sets. The challenge here lies in the development of meaningful visual renderings that acually help the researcher to detect unknown features in his data. Computer graphics is another field that plays an important role in this research context as it provides the techniques to create the actual rendering

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Stefan Birmanns, PhD

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