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Johanna Beyer was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She is currently a Research Associate at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
Research Interest
Her research focuses on GPU-based volume rendering techniques for large-scale neuroscience and medical data, with emphasis on visualization of large and multimodal volumes. She’s also interested in the combination of abstract information visualization with scientific visualization for novel domain-specific applications.
Education Profile
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2009
- Dipl. Ing. (FH), Medical Software Engineering, Upper Austrian University of Applied Science, Austria, 2004
Selected Publications
Mohammed, H., Al-Awami, A. K., Beyer, J., Cali, C., Magistretti, P., Pfister, H., & Hadwiger, M. (2018). Abstractocyte: A Visual Tool for Exploring Nanoscale Astroglial Cells. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 24(1), 853–861. doi:10.1109/tvcg.2017.2744278
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Hadwiger, M., Al-Awami, A. K., Beyer, J., Agus, M., & Pfister, H. (2018). SparseLeap : Efficient Empty Space Skipping for Large-Scale Volume Rendering. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 24(1), 974–983. doi:10.1109/tvcg.2017.2744238
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Ai-Awami, A. K., Beyer, J., Haehn, D., Kasthuri, N., Lichtman, J. W., Pfister, H., & Hadwiger, M. (2016). NeuroBlocks – Visual Tracking of Segmentation and Proofreading for Large Connectomics Projects. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 22(1), 738–746. doi:10.1109/tvcg.2015.2467441
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Beyer, J., Hadwiger, M., & Pfister, H. (2015). State-of-the-Art in GPU-Based Large-Scale Volume Visualization. Computer Graphics Forum, 34(8), 13–37. doi:10.1111/cgf.12605
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Al-Awami, A. K., Beyer, J., Strobelt, H., Kasthuri, N., Lichtman, J. W., Pfister, H., & Hadwiger, M. (2014). NeuroLines: A Subway Map Metaphor for Visualizing Nanoscale Neuronal Connectivity. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12), 2369–2378. doi:10.1109/tvcg.2014.2346312
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Beyer, J., Al-Awami, A., Kasthuri, N., Lichtman, J. W., Pfister, H., & Hadwiger, M. (2013). ConnectomeExplorer: Query-Guided Visual Analysis of Large Volumetric Neuroscience Data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 19(12), 2868–2877. doi:10.1109/tvcg.2013.142
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Beyer, J., Hadwiger, M., Jeong, W.-K., Pfister, H., & Lichtman, J. (2011). Demand-driven volume rendering of terascale EM data. ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Talks on - SIGGRAPH ’11. doi:10.1145/2037826.2037901