A Stereoscopic Volume Rendered Brain Atlas

The anatomy of the human brain is organized as a complex arrangement of interrelated structures in three dimensional space. To facilitate the understanding of both structure and function, we have created a volume rendered brain atlas (VRBA) with an intuitive interface that allows real-time stereoscopic rendering of brain anatomy. The VRBA incorporates 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional texture mapping to display segmented brain anatomy co-registered with a T1 MRI. The interface allows the user to remove and add any of the 62 brain structures, as well as control the display of the MRI dataset. The atlas also contains brief verbal and written descriptions of the different anatomical regions to correlate structure with function. A variety of stereoscopic projection methods are supported by the VRBA and provide an abstract, yet simple, way of visualizing brain anatomy and 3-dimensional relationships between different nuclei.

Die Flüsterkette – Geräuschreduzierung an Fördersystemen

Um die in einem Kunststoffkettenfördersystem auftretenden Geräusche zu reduzieren, wurde ein spezielles Bauteil der Kette im Zweikomponenten-Spritzguss aus einem thermoplastischen Elastomer (TPE) und kettentypischen Kunststoffen gefertigt. Im Rahmen der Entwicklung wurden u. a. Voruntersuchungen zur Haftung zwischen den Werkstoffen durchgeführt. Die neu geschaffene Kette bewirkt eine Verringerung des Schalldruckpegels um 3 4 dB[A] gegenüber herkömmlichen Kunststoffketten im Fördersystem. Das ermöglicht eine Steigerung der Fördergeschwindigkeit um bis zu 30% ohne zusätzliche Lärmbelastung.

Advanced luminance control and black offset correction for multi-projector display systems

In order to display a homogeneous image using multiple projectors, differences in the projected intensities must be compensated. In this paper, we present novel approaches to combine and extend existing techniques for edge blending and luminance harmonization to achieve a detailed luminance control. Furthermore, we apply techniques for improving the contrast ratio of multi-segmented displays also to the black offset correction. We also present a simple scheme to involve the displayed context in the correction process to dynamically improve the contrast in brighter images. In addition, we present a metric to evaluate the different methods and their influence on the visual quality.