UC Davis Prof. Kwan-Liu Ma （馬匡六教授）去年十月來訪藝科中心，探詢未來跨單位合作之可能性。馬教授對「名畫大發現 – 清明上河圖」作品特別感興趣，近日來函希望未來能有進一步合作，未來在影像視覺化與影像偵測技術能給予協助，以及在數位內容上可作進一步之應用合作。

Prof. Kwan-Liu Ma （馬匡六教授) 研究領域：

Parallel & Distributed Visualization
Visualizing large, complex volume data demands parallel or Grid-based solutions. We intend to realize a fully parallelized visualization pipeline. We have developed scalable parallel rendering algorithms for a variety of volume data, designed highly efficient software and hardware image compositing solutions, and built clusters targeting large-scale visualization applications. Most of the performance studies have been done on the massively parallel computers operated at LANL, LBL, LLNL, and PSC.

Information Visualization
Our research in information visualization focuses on very large graph visualization, visual-based data mining, and interactive browsing of large data sets. A particular topic of interest is security data visualization. We are also interested in studying the information visualization aspect of scientific visualization problems–visualizing visualizations!

User Interfaces
We develop visual interfaces that can help scientists keep track of their visualization experience and findings, use it to generate new visualizations, and share it with others. We also investigate how intelligent systems can assist sophisticated, time-consuming visualization tasks, and consequently simplify the user interfaces for performing the tasks.