Visualization Lab News

New Software Release: 3D Puppetry

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:55:31 -0800

Source code for our 3D Puppetry system is now available. Quickly make 3D animations using a Kinect.

New Software Release: Proton Multitouch Framework

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:15:33 -0800

We have released the source code for our Proton/Proton++ framework for declaratively specifying multitouch gestures as regular expressions.

UnderScore Demo Online

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:37:29 -0800

Check out the demo of our UnderScore system for adding musical underlays to audio stories.

Photoshop CS6 includes Adaptive Wide Angle Feature

Thu, 03 May 2012 12:10:49 -0800

Adobe's Photoshop CS6 will include an adaptive wide-angle feature that allows users to interactive correct distortions in wide-angle images. This demonstrates how the feature works. The feature is based on Rob Carroll's work on optimizing content-preserving projections for wide-angle images.

We've also published a follow-on paper describing image warps for artistic perspective manipulation.

Course on User Interface Design to Focus on Kinect Applications

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:20:54 -0800

We are teaching CS160:User Interface Design this spring. The theme this semester is Kinect applications. Please visit the course wiki for more information.

Adobe Launches Photoshop Tutorial Builder

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:14:29 -0800

Adobe recently launched Photoshop Tutorial Builder, a product that allows users to generate step-by-step tutorials from a sequence of actions recorded in the application. The resulting tutorials include text description and tool icons for the recorded actions, and can be played back either within Photoshop or via a connected iPad. Photoshop Tutorial Builder is based on Floraine Berthouzoz's work on generating photo manipulation tutorials. Check out the video which features our collaborators, Wilmot Li and Mira Dontcheva.

We've also recently published a follow-on paper describing content adaptive photo manipulation macros.

New course on Image Manipulation and Computational Photography

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:05:04 -0800

We are offering a new course on Image Manipulation and Computational Photography. It is open to graduate students as CS294-69 and undergraduates as CS194-69. The lectures are MW 5-6:30pm in Soda Hall 320.

Visualization Course

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:46:49 -0800

We are offering CS 294-10 Visualization this semester. It's a graduate level course on Visualization techniques, but advanced undergrads are welcome. It is MW 1-2:30 in Soda Hall 405.

Computer Graphics Course

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:26:54 -0800

We've posted the Course Wiki for CS 184 Computer Graphics. If you are a Berkeley student, come check out the course. It is MW 10:30-12:00 in Soda Hall 306.

Two new CommentSpace visualizations

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:30:19 -0800

We've released two new visualizations in CommentSpace! The first visualizes college return on investment data for U.S. colleges and universities and lets you compare schools based on their graduation rates, tuition costs, and return on investment. The second lets you visually compare the top movies of 2005-2010 based on budget, net income, critics' ratings, and other measures. Come join the discussion and see how your favorite schools and films stack up the competition!

CommentSpace Tour de France Explorer now live

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:22:34 -0800

We're pleased to announce a new version of our collaborative visualization tool, CommentSpace, loaded with visualizations of data from the Tour de France.

Throughout the 2010 Tour, we're updating the visualizations with daily stage results so you can compare your favorite riders, analyze their past performances and track their progress. You can also post views and comments to Facebook and share individual views (like this one showing the withdrawal of the Astana team in 2007 tour on doping charges) to expand the discussion. Come join the conversation!

VisLab launches CommentSpace

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:02:50 -0800

We've launched an alpha version of our collaborative visualization tool CommentSpace. Using CommentSpace, you can comment on and collaborate around classic visualizations like the US Census Job Voyager as well as new visualizations of data from the recently-concluded 2010 Olympic Games. Come explore the visualizations and start commenting!

Courses for Spring 2010

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:37:58 -0800

We are offering a graduate course on visualization and an undergraduate course on user interfaces. Check out the course wikis for more information: CS294-10 Visualization, CS160 User Interfaces

User Interfaces Course

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:48:14 -0800

Jeff Nichols from IBM will be co-teaching CS160:User Interfaces, with Maneesh this Spring. More information is on the course wiki.

Flare used to visualize political contributions

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:21:10 -0800

The GoodGuide Political Contributions app uses Flare to visualize the amount and type of contributions corporations make to American political parties.