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According to the information provided, the software’s special functions currently make it unique worldwide. Even smaller computers can display and modify extensive 3D data at lightning speed. Recently, this has even become possible through a free application on the iPhone.
ImageVis3D is currently used primarily in medicine to retrieve and modify scientific 3D images from computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging, for example. On any ordinary computer, scientists and doctors can use it to study the human body more closely and assess medical problems. High-resolution geographical images, such as satellite images from Google Earth, can also be modified. Until now, processing such enormous quantities of data was possible only on powerful computers.
Recently, even the comparatively small computer in an iPhone can be used to visualise images of the human body. ImageVis3D Mobile is the name of the application, which can be downloaded free of charge from Apple’s App Store. Several thousand users had already done so during the first few days. ImageVis3D can also be integrated easily into other software environments and can be used flexibly thanks to its modular structure. It is based on software developed at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) at the University of Utah.
Jens Krüger worked on the program in Salt Lake City for around a year, supported by software developer Tom Fogal, who conducts research at the University of Utah. As part of a biomedical project, ImageVis3D was financed by the US Departments of Health and Energy. Jens Krüger recently began leading a research group in Saarland University’s “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” (MMCI) Cluster of Excellence. The research group is based at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken. There, Jens Krüger will investigate even more intensively how entire 3D worlds can be brought to small computers.
Background:
Saarland University’s “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” Cluster of Excellence is funded through the Excellence Initiative of Germany’s federal and state governments. It was founded two years ago and combines computer-science research at Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). The Cluster of Excellence aims to organise, understand and search multimodal information such as texts, audio, video and images efficiently.
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