TY - CHAP A1 - Myszkowski, Karol A1 - Okuneva, Galina A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Kunii, Tosiyasu L. A1 - Ibusuki, Masumi T1 - Visual Simulation of the Chewing Process for Dentistry T2 - Visualization & Modelling, International Conf., 5-7 December, 1995 N2 - CAD/CAM techniques are increasingly used in dentistry for the design and fabrication of teeth restorations. Important concerns are the correction of articulation problems that existed beforetreatment and the prevention of treatment-generated problems. These require interactive evaluation of the occlusal surfaces of teeth during mastication. Traditional techniques based on the use of casts with mechanical articulators require manual adjustment of occlusal surfaces, which becomes impractical when hard restoration materials like porcelain are used; they are also time and labor consuming and provide little visual information. We present new visual tools and a related user interface for global articulation simulation, developed for the Intelligent Dental Care System project. The aim of the simulation is visual representation of characteristics relevant to the chewing process. The simulation is based on the construction of distance maps, which are visual representations of the distributions of the distances of points in a tooth to the opposite jaw. We use rasterizing graphics hardware for fast calculation of the distance maps. Distance maps are used for collision detection and for the derivation of various characteristics showing the distribution of load on the teeth and the chewing capability of the teeth. Such characteristics can be calculated for particular positions of the jaws; cumulative characteristics are used to describe the properties of jaw movement. This information may be used for interactive design of the occlusal surfaces of restorations and for jaw articulation diagnosis. We also demonstrate elements of a user interface that exploit metaphors familiar to dentists from everyday practice. Y1 - 1995 CY - Leeds ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Myszkowski, Karol A1 - Kunii, Tosiyasu L. A1 - Ibusuki, Masumi ED - Weghorst, Suzanne J. ED - Sieburg, Hans B. ED - Morgan, Karen S. T1 - A Virtual Reality Interface to an Intelligent Dental Care System T2 - Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 4 Y1 - 1996 SP - 17 EP - 20 PB - IOS Press CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Myszkowski, Karol A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Kunii, Tosiyasu L. A1 - Ibusuki, Masumi T1 - Visualization and analysis of occlusion for human jaws using a "functionally generated path" T2 - IS&T/SPIE Symp. on Electronic Imaging, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis III N2 - Dynamic characteristics of occlusion during lower jaw motion are useful in the diagnosis of jaw articulation problems and in computer-aided design/manufacture of teeth restorations. The Functionally Generated Path (FGP), produced as a surface which envelops the actual occlusal surface of the moving opponent jaw, can be used for compact representation of dynamic occlusal relations. In traditional dentistry FGP is recorded as a bite impression in a patient’s mouth. We propose an efficient computerized technique for FGP reconstruction and validate it through implementation and testing. The distance maps between occlusal surfaces of jaws, calculated for multiple projection directions and accumulated for mandibular motion, provide information for FGP computation. Rasterizing graphics hardware is used for fast calculation of the distance maps. Real-world data are used: the scanned shape of teeth and the measured motion of the lower jaw. We show applications of FGP to analysis of the occlusion relations and occlusal surface design for restorations. Y1 - 1996 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.234684 SP - 360 EP - 367 PB - The International Society for Optical Engineering CY - San Jose ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Amano, Katsumi A1 - Matsushita, Fumio A1 - Yanagawa, Hirofumi A1 - Cohen, Michael A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Koba, Yoshiharu A1 - Tohyama, Mikio T1 - The Pioneer sound field control system at the University of Aizu Multimedia Center T2 - RO-MAN '96 Tsukuba N2 - The PSFC, or Pioneer sound field control system, is a DSP-driven hemispherical 14-loudspeaker array, installed at the University of Aizu Multimedia Center. Collocated with a large screen rear-projection stereographic display the PSFC features realtime control of virtual room characteristics and direction of two separate sound channels, smoothly steering them around a configurable soundscape. The PSFC controls an entire sound field, including sound direction, virtual distance, and simulated environment (reverb level, room size and liveness) for each source. It can also configure a dry (DSP-less) switching matrix for direct directionalization. The PSFC speaker dome is about 14 m in diameter, allowing about twenty users at once to comfortably stand or sit near its sweet spot. KW - Acoustic reflection KW - Auditory displays KW - Control systems KW - Delay effects KW - Electronic mail KW - Large screen displays KW - Loudspeakers KW - Multimedia systems KW - Reverberation KW - Size control Y1 - 1996 SN - 0-7803-3253-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1996.568887 SP - 495 EP - 499 PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Cohen, Michael T1 - Sound Spatialization Resource Management in Virtual Reality Environments T2 - ASVA’97 ‐- Int. Symp. on Simulation, Visualization and Auralization for Acoustic Research and Education N2 - In a virtual reality environment users are immersed in a scene with objects which might produce sound. The responsibility of a VR environment is to present these objects, but a system has only limited resources, including spatialization channels (mixels), MIDI/audio channels, and processing power. The sound spatialization resource manager controls sound resources and optimizes fidelity (presence) under given conditions. For that a priority scheme based on human psychophysical hearing is needed. Parameters for spatialization priorities include intensity calculated from volume and distance, orientation in the case of non-uniform radiation patterns, occluding objects, frequency spectrum (low frequencies are harder to localize), expected activity, and others. Objects which are spatially close together (depending on distance and direction) can be mixed. Sources that can not be spatialized can be treated as a single ambient sound source. Important for resource management is the resource assignment, i.e., minimizing swap operations, which makes it desirable to look-ahead and predict upcoming events in a scene. Prediction is achieved by monitoring objects’ speed and past evaluation values. Fidelity is contrasted for Zifferent kind of resource restrictions and optimal resource assignment based upon unlimited dynamic scene look-ahead. To give standard and comparable results, the VRML 2.0 specification is used as an application programmer interface. Applicability is demonstrated with a helical keyboard, a polyphonic MIDI stream driven animation including user interaction (user moves around, playing together with programmed notes). The developed sound spatialization resource manager gives improved spatialization fidelity under runtime constraints. Application programmers and virtual reality scene designers are freed from the burden of assigning and predicting the sound sources. Y1 - 1997 SP - 407 EP - 414 CY - Tokyo ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Myszkowski, Karol A1 - Okuneva, Galina A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Kunii, Tosiyasu L. A1 - Ibusuki, Masumi ED - Earnshaw, Rae A. ED - Huw, Jones ED - John, Vince T1 - Visual Simulation of the Chewing Process for Dentistry T2 - Visualization & Modeling N2 - CAD/CAM techniques are increasingly used in dentistry for the design and fabrication of teeth estorations. Important concerns are the correction of articulation problems that existed before treatment and the prevention of treatment-generated problems. These require interactive evaluation of the occlusal surfaces of teeth during mastication. Traditional techniques based on the use of casts with mechanical articulators require manual adjustment of occlusal surfaces, which becomes impractical when hard restoration materials like porcelain are used; they are also time and labor consuming and provide little visual information. We present new visual tools and a related user interface for global articulation simulation, developed for the Intelligent Dental Care System project. The aim of the simulation is visual representation of characteristics relevant to the chewing process. The simulation is based on the construction of distance maps, which are visual representations of the distributions of the distances of points in a tooth to the opposite jaw. We use rasterizing graphics hardware for fast calculation of the distance maps. Distance maps are used for collision detection and for the derivation of various characteristics showing the distribution of load on the teeth and the chewing capability of the teeth. Such characteristics can be calculated for particular positions of the jaws; cumulative characteristics are used to describe the properties of jaw movement. This information may be used for interactive design of the occlusal surfaces of restorations and for jaw articulation diagnosis. We also demonstrate elements of a user interface that exploit metaphors familiar to dentists from everyday practice. Y1 - 1997 SN - 0-12-227738-4 SP - 419 EP - 438 PB - Academic Press CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmitt, Lothar M. A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Bhalla, Subhash ED - Gorayska, Barbara ED - Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. ED - Marsh, Jonathon P. T1 - Information Retrieval and Database Architecture for Conventional Japanese Character Dictionaries T2 - Proceedings, Second International Conference on Cognitive Technology N2 - The cycle of abstraction-reconstruction which occurs as a fundamental principle in the development of culture and in cognitive processes is described and analyzed. This approach leads to recognition of boundary conditions for and directions of probable development of cognitive tools. It is shown how the transition from a conventional Japanese-English character dictionary to a multi-dimensional language database is an instance of such an abstraction-reconstruction cycle. The different phases of the design of a multi-dimensional language database based upon different computer software technologies are properly placed in this cycle. The methods used include the use of UNIX software tools, classical database methods as-well-as the use of search engines based upon full text search in this process. Several directions of application and extension for a multi-dimensional language database are discussed from the general point of view of an abstraction-reconstruction cycle. KW - abstraction-reconstruction cycle KW - database KW - dictionary KW - hypertext, search engine KW - retrieval methods KW - UNIX Y1 - 1997 SN - 0-8186-8084-9 SP - 200 EP - 217 PB - IEEE CY - Los Alamitos ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Cohen, Michael ED - Gorayska, Barbara ED - Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. ED - Marsh, Jonathon P. T1 - Enhancing Perspicuity of Objects in Virtual Reality Environments T2 - Proceedings, Second International Conference on Cognitive Technology N2 - In an information-rich Virtual Reality (VR) environment, the user is immersed in a world containing many objects providing that information. Given the finite computational resources of any computer system, optimization is required to ensure that the most important information is presented to the user as clearly as possible and in a timely fashion. In particular, what is desired are means whereby the perspicuity of an object may be enhanced when appropriate. An object becomes more perspicuous when the information it provides to the user becomes more readily apparent. Additionally, if a particular object provides high-priority information, it would be advantageous to make that object obtrusive as well as highly perspicuous. An object becomes more obtrusive if it draws attention to itself (or equivalently, if it is hard to ignore). This paper describes a technique whereby objects may dynamically adapt their representation in a user's environment according to a dynamic priority evaluation of the information each object provides. The three components of our approach are: - an information manager that evaluates object information priority, - an enhancement manager that tabulates rendering features associated with increasing object perspicuity and obtrusion as a function of priority, and - a resource manager that assigns available object rendering resources according to features indicated by the enhancement manager for the priority set for each object by the information manager. We consider resources like visual space (pixels), sound spatialization channels (mixels), MIDI/audio channels, and processing power, and discuss our approach applied to different applications. Assigned object rendering features are implemented locally at the object level (e.g., object facing the user using the billboard node in VRML 2.0) or globally, using helper applications (e.g., active spotlights, semi-automatic cameras). KW - autonomous actors KW - obtrusion KW - perspicuity KW - spatial media KW - spatialization KW - user interface design man-machine interfaces KW - Virtual Reality Y1 - 1997 SN - 0-8186-8084-9 SP - 228 EP - 237 PB - IEEE CY - Los Alamitos ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Amano, Katsumi A1 - Matsushita, Fumio A1 - Yanagawa, Hirofumi A1 - Cohen, Michael A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Martens, William A1 - Koba, Yoshiharu A1 - Tohyama, Mikio T1 - A Virtual Reality Sound System Using Room-Related Transfer Functions Delivered Through a Multispeaker Array: the PSFC at the University of Aizu Multimedia Center JF - TVRSJ N2 - The PSFC, or Pioneer Sound Field Controller, is a DSP-driven hemispherical loudspeaker array, installed at the University of Aizu Multimedia Center. The PSFC features realtime manipulation of the primary components of sound spatialization for each of two audio sources located in a virtual environment, including the content (apparent direction and distance) and context (room characteristics: reverberation level, room size and liveness). In an alternate mode, it can also direct the destination of the two separate input signals across 14 loudspeakers, manipulating the direction of the virtual sound sources with no control over apparent distance other than that afforded by source loudness (including no simulated environmental reflections or reverberation). The PSFC speaker dome is about 10 m in diameter, accommodating about fifty simultaneous users, including about twenty users comfortably standing or sitting near its ``sweet spot,'' the area in which the illusions of sound spatialization are most vivid. Collocated with a large screen rear-projection stereographic display, the PSFC is intended for advanced multimedia and virtual reality applications. KW - audio signal processing, audio telecommunications KW - auralization KW - calm technology KW - directional mixing console KW - multichannel sound reproduction KW - room-related transfer functions KW - roomware KW - sound localization KW - virtual conferencing environment Y1 - 1998 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18974/tvrsj.3.1_1 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - J-STAGE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Cohen, Michael A1 - Herder, Jens ED - Göbel, Martin ED - Landauer, Jürgen ED - Lang, Ulrich ED - Wapler, Matthias T1 - Symbolic representations of exclude and include for audio sources and sinks: Figurative suggestions of mute/solo & cue and deafen/confide & harken T2 - Virtual Environments ’98, Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop Y1 - 1998 SN - 3-211-83233-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7519-4_23 SP - 235 EP - 242 PB - Springer-Verlag CY - Stuttgart ER -