Advisor Professor Jane Wilhelms Research Interests Computer Graphics: Anatomically base modelling, real-time rendering Computer Vision: Active contours (snakes), feature detection / tracking, scene reconstruction Web Development: Java applets / servlets, xmlc / jolt (Enhydra) Thesis work Tracking On The Wild Side - Using Deformable Contours To Effectively Track Fauna in Noisy Video Sequences As part of the research group building the Zoo application, I have been responsible for creating various portions of the image/movie retrieval and playback functionality as well as establishing a library of common and not-so-common computer vision and image processing routines Course work Computer Animation: Solving the inverse kinematics problem with a genetic algorithm Hardware Simulation: Visualizing results of a multi-level cache simulation Computer Vision: Scene reconstruction via voxelization; layered depth image construction and rendering Scientific Visualization: Multimodal, multivariate visualization Boinformatics: Promoter region search tool - Java application (Swing/Java3D) Object Oriented Programming: DNA client / server motif database application - using Enhydra