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Leonardo da Vinci's Lost Mural: The Battle of Anghiari The Battle of Anghiari disappeared nearly 500 years ago when the Hall of the 500 in the Palazzo Vecchio was remodeled by Giorgio Vasari, starting in 1563. But was "The Battle of Anghiari" destroyed? Did Vasari protect it behind his own new mural? And if the da Vinci masterpiece remained in place, did it crumble - or has it survived to this day? Our group is working on advanced imaging and visualization techniques to answer these questions. (Read More)

The Battle of Anghiari

Recent Publications

• Olsen, M., Johnstone, E., Kuester, F., Driscoll, N., Ashford, S.A. (2010). New automated point-cloud alignment for ground-based LIDAR data of long coastal sections. To be published in the ASCE Journal of Surveying Engineering. pre-print

• Ponto, K., Doerr, K. and Kuester, F. (2009). Giga-Stack: A Method for Visualizing Giga-pixel Layered Imagery on Massively Tiled Displays. Future Generation Computer Systems. In Press.
• Ponto, K. and Kuester, F. DIGI-Vis: Distributed Interactive Geospatial Information Visualization. In proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference. (2010) In Press.
• Knoblauch, D. and Kuester, F. (2009). Focused Volumetric Visual Hull with Color Extraction. Accepted to 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'09).
• Knoblauch, D., Hess-Flores, M., Duchaineau, M. and Kuester, F. (2009). Factorization of correspondence and camera error for unconstrained dense correspondence applications. Accepted to 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'09).
• Ponto, K. Wypych, T. Doerr, K. Yamaoka, S. Kimball, J. Kuester, F. (2009) VideoBlaster: a distributed, low-network bandwidth method for multimedia playback on tiled display systems. Accepted for ISM09 (conference dates December 14-16, 2009)
• Ponto, K. Seracini, M. Kuester, F. (2009) Wipe-Off: an intuitive interface for exploring ultra-large multi-spectral data sets for cultural heritage diagnostics. Accepted for publication in CGF (July, 2009)
• Young, A.P., Olsen, M.J., Driscoll, N., Gutierrez, R., Guza, R.T., Flick, R.E., Johnstone, E., and Kuester, F(In Press). "Comparing Airborne and Terrestrial Lidar Approaches to Assess Seacliff Erosion in Southern California." To be published in the ASPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
• Olsen, M.J., Johnstone, E., Driscoll, N., Ashford, S.A., and Kuester, F. (2009). "Terrestrial Laser Scanning of Extended Cliff Sections in Dynamic Environments: A Parameter Analysis." ASCE J. of Surveying Eng., 134(4).
• Olsen, M.J., Kuester, F., Chang, B.J., and Hutchinson, T.C. (2009). "Terrestrial Laser Scanning-Based Structural Damage Assessment." ASCE J. of Computing in Civil Eng.
• DeFanti, T.A., Leigh, J., Renambot, L., Jeong, B., Verlo, A., Long, L., Brown, M., Sandin, D.J., Vishwanath, V., Liu, Q., Katz, M.J., Papadopoulos, P., Keefe, J.P., Hidley, G.R., Dawe, G., Kaufman, I., Glogowski, B., Doerr, K.U., Singh, R., Girado, J., Schulze, J.P., Kuester F., and Smarr, L. (2009). The OptIPortal, a Scalable Visualization, Storage, and Computing Interface Device for the OptiPuter. To appear in Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25(2), Elsevier, February 2009, pp. 114-123. (pdf)
• DeFanti, T.A., Dawe, G., Sandin, D.J., Schulze, J.P., Otto, P., Girado, J., Kuester, F., Smarr, L., Rao, R. (2009). TheStarCAVE, a Third-Generation CAVE and Virtual Reality OptIPortal. To appear in Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25(2), Elsevier, February 2009, pp. 169-178. (pdf)
• Knoblauch, D. and Kuester, F. (2008). VirtualizeMe: Interactive Model Reconstruction From Stereo Video Streams. In ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST'08) Proceedings.
• Nastase, D., Chaudhuri, S. R., Chadwick, R., Hutchinson, T. C., Doerr, K.-U., and Kuester, F. (2008). Development and evaluation of a seismic monitoring system for building interiors part i: Experiment design and results. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol.57, no.2, pp.332-344. (pdf)
• Doerr, K.-U., Kuester, F., Nastase, D., and Hutchinson, T. C. (2008). Development and evaluation of a seismic monitoring system for building interiors part ii: Image data analysis and results. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol.57, no.2, pp.345-354. (pdf)