William Ribarsky, Ph.D.

Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology

Director, Charlotte Visualization Center

9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001

704.687.6406

ribarsky at uncc dot edu

 

 

Charlotte Visualization Center

Publications

GRA Advice

 DVG

 

2005 Publications

  • William Ribarsky, co-editor. Special Issue on Haptics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (November, 2005).

  • Jin Young Hong, Dong Jeong, Chris Shaw, William Ribarsky, Mark Borodovsky, and Chang Song. Gvis: A Scalable Visualization Framework for Genomic Data. To be published, Eurographics-IEEE Visualization Symposium 2005.

  • William Ribarsky, chapter editor. The Science of Analytic Reasoning. Illuminating the Path: Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, James Thomas and Kristin Cook, editors. IEEE Computer Society Press (May, 2005).

  • Ernst Houtgast, Onno Pfeiffer, Zachary Wartell, William Ribarsky, and Frits Post. Navigation and Interaction in a Multi-Scale Stereoscopic Environment. IEEE Virtual Reality 2005, pp. 275-276 (2005).

2004 Publications

  • William Ribarsky. Virtual Geographic Information Systems. The Visualization Handbook, pp. 435-463, Charles Hanson and Christopher Johnson, editors (Academic Press, New York, 2004).

2003 Publications

  • Justin Jang, William Ribarsky, Christopher Shaw, and Peter Wonka. Appearance-Preserving View-Dependent Visualization. IEEE Visualization 2003, pp. 473-480.

  • Peter Wonka, Michael Wimmer, Francois Sillion, and William Ribarsky. Instant Architecture. SIGGRAPH 2003, pp. 669-678.

  • William Ribarsky, editor (with Holly Rushmeier). 3D Reconstruction and Visualization of Large Scale Environments. Special Issue of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (2003).

  • Zachary Wartell, Eunjung Kang, Tony Wasilewski, William Ribarsky, and Nickolas Faust. Rendering Vector Data over Global, Multiresolution 3D Terrain. Eurographics-IEEE Visualization Symposium 2003, pp. 213-222 (2003).

  • David Krum, Rob Melby, William Ribarsky, and Larry Hodges. Isometric Pointer Interfaces for Wearable 3D Visualization. ACM CHI 2003, pp. 774-775 (2003).

  • William Ribarsky, Zachary Wartell, and Nickolas Faust. Precision Markup Modeling and Display in a Global Geospatial Environment. SPIE 17th International Conference on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. #5097 Geo-Spatial and Temporal Image and Data Exploitation III (2003).

  • Benjamin Watson, Neff Walker, Peter Woytiuk, and William Ribarsky. Maintaining Usability During 3D Placement Despite Delay. IEEE Virtual Reality 2003, pp. 133-140 (2003).

2002 Publications

  • William Ribarsky, Nickolas Faust, Zachary Wartell, Christopher Shaw, and Justin Jang. Visual Query of Time-Dependent 3D Weather in a Global Geospatial Environment Mining Spatio-Temporal Information Systems, R. Ladner, K. Shaw, and Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Editors (Kluwer, Amsterdam, 2002).

  • David Krum, Olugbenga Omoteso, William Ribarsky, Thad Starner, and Larry Hodges. Evaluation of a Multimodal Interface for 3D Terrain Visualization. IEEE Visualization 2002, pp. 411-418.

  • William Ribarsky, Tony Wasilewski and Nickolas Faust. From Urban Terrain Models to Visible Cities. IEEE CG&A Vol. 22(4), pp. 10-15, (2002).

  • William Ribarsky, Justin Jang, Chris Shaw, and Nickolas Faust. View-Dependent Multiresolution Splatting of Non-Uniform Data. Eurographics-IEEE Visualization Symposium 2002, pp. 125-132.

  • David Krum, Olugbenga Omoteso, William Ribarsky, Thad Starner, and Larry Hodges. Speech and Gesture Multimodal Control of a Whole Earth 3D Virtual Environment. Eurographics-IEEE Visualization Symposium 2002, pp. 195-200. Winner of the SAIC Best Student Paper award.

  • Zachary Wartell, Larry Hodges, and William Ribarsky. A Geometric Comparison of Algorithms for Fusion Control in Stereoscopic HTDs. Report GIT-GVU-00-09, pp. 129-143, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2002).

2001 Publications

  • William Ribarsky. Towards the Visual Earth. Proc. Workshop on Intersection of Geospatial Information and Information Technology, National Research Council (October, 2001).

  • A.F. Seay, D. Krum, L. Hodges, and W. Ribarsky. Simulator Sickness and Presence in a High FOV Virtual Environment. Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality 2001, pp. 299-300 (2001).

  • David Krum, William Ribarsky, Chris Shaw, Larry Hodges, and Nickolas Faust. Situational Visualization. ACM VRST 2001, pp. 143-150.

  • Tony Wasilewski, William Ribarsky, Matthew Grimes, and Nickolas Faust. Semiautomatic Landscape Feature Extraction and Modeling. Vol. 4368A, SPIE 15th Annual Conference on Aerosense (2001).

  • Mitchell Parry, Brendan Hannigan, William Ribarsky, T.Y. Jiang, and Nickolas Faust. Hierarchical Storage and Visualization of Real-Time 3D Data. Vol. 4368A, SPIE Aerosense 2001.

  • William Ribarsky, T.Y. Jiang, Tony Wasilewski, Nickolas Faust, Brendan Hannigan, and Mitchell Parry. Acquisition and Display of Real-Time Atmospheric Data on Terrain. Eurographics-IEEE Visualization Symposium 2001, pp. 15-24.

  • Zachary Wartell, Larry Hodges, and William Ribarsky. Characterizing Image Fusion Techniques in Stereoscopic Displays. Graphics Interface 2001, pp. 223-232.

  • Nickolas Faust and William Ribarsky. Development of Tools for Construction of Urban Databases and Their Efficient Visualization. Modeling and Visualizing the Digital Earth, Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Editor (Kluwer, Amsterdam, 2001).

2000 Publications

  • Bastian Leibe, Thad Starner, Zachary Wartell, William Ribarsky, Larry Hodges, Justin Weeks, Brad Singletary, and David Krum. Towards Spontaneous Interaction with the Perceptive Workbench, A Semi-Immersive Virtual Environment. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, pp. 54-65 (2000).

  • Nickolas Faust, William Ribarsky, T.Y. Jiang, and Tony Wasilewski. Real-Time Global Data Model for the Digital Earth. Proceedings of the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISCRETE GLOBAL GRIDS (2000).

  • A. Fleming Seay, David Krum, Larry Hodges, and William Ribarsky. Direct Manipulation on the Virtual Workbench: Two Hands Aren’t Always Better Than One. Report GIT-GVU-00-07. Winner of SAIC 2000 award for best graduate student research papers.

  • Bastian Leibe, Thad Starner, William Ribarsky, David Krum, Larry Hodges, and Zachary Wartell. The Perceptive Workbench Towards Spontaneous and Natural Interaction in Semi-Immersive Virtual Environments. IEEE Virtual Reality 2000, pp. 13-20. Won the IEEE Virtual Reality 2000 best paper award.

  • Eduard Groeller, William Ribarsky, and Helwig Loeffelmann. Computers & Graphics, Special Issue on Data Visualization (Vol. 24, no. 3, June, 2000).

1999 Publications

  • Eduard Groeller and William Ribarsky, Editors. Data Visualization 99, (Springer-Verlag, 1999).

  • William Ribarsky, Jochen Katz, T.Y. Jiang, and Aubrey Holland. Discovery Visualization Using Fast Clustering.  IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications 19(5), pp. 32-39 (1999).

  • Douglass Davis, William Ribarsky, T.Y. Jiang, Nickolas Faust, and Sean Ho. Real-Time Visualization of Scalably Large Collections of Heterogeneous Objects. Report GIT-GVU-99-14, pp. 437-440, IEEE Visualization ‘99.

  • Tony Wasilewski, Nickolas Faust, and William Ribarsky. Semi-Automated and Interactive Construction of 3D Urban Terrains. Proceedings of the SPIE Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation & Controls Symposium, Vol. 3694A, pp. 31-38 (1999).

  • Seay, A.F, Ribarsky, William, Hodges, Larry, and Krum, David. Multimodal Interaction Techniques for the Virtual Workbench. ACM CHI 99, pp. 282-283.

  • Wartell, Zachary, Hodges, Larry, and Ribarsky, William. Distortion in Head-Tracked Stereoscopic Displays Due to False Eye Separation. SIGGRAPH 99, pp. 351-358.

  • Wartell, Zachary, Ribarsky, William, and Hodges, Larry. Efficient Ray Intersection for Visualization and Navigation of Global Terrain. Eurographics-IEEE Visualization Symposium 99, Data Visualization ‘99, pp. 213-224 (Springer-Verlag, Vienna, 1999).

  • Benjamin, Walker, Neff, and Ribarsky, William. On Temporal Level of Detail: System Responsiveness, Feedback and User Performance. ACM CHI 99, pp. 280-281.

  • Van de Pol, Rogier, Ribarsky, William, Hodges, Larry, and Post, Frits. Interaction in Semi-Immersive Large Display Environments. Report GIT-GVU-98-30, pp. 157-168, Eurographics Virtual Environments 99 (Springer-Verlag, 1999)