Frits H. Post

Author: Frits H. Post

Ph.D

Frits Post was an Associate Professor of Computer Science
(computer graphics) at Delft University of Technology;
he retired in July 2011. He started working in computer
graphics in the 1970s, when he studied Industrial Design
Engineering at Delft University of Technology. For his
graduation project in the Ergonomics Group (1979), he
developed the Anthropometric Design Assessment Program
System (ADAPS), an interactive 3D graphics system for
workspace design, which has been used and developed
further until this very day. In 1982 he moved from Industrial Design Engineering to Computer Science, where he became associate professor in 1987. In 1989 he started research in scientific visualization.The last two decades he and his students and co-workers have produced many new methods and techniques for visualization. He has been very successful in attracting bright students and guiding them. In the nineties his main topic was flow visualization, where he and his students studied visualization of turbulent flow, particle and texture-based visualization, selective visualization, feature extraction and tracking, and comparative visualization. In the late nineties
he became interested in the use of virtual reality techniques for visualization. With his students he developed novel techniques for 3D interaction and exploration of large data sets using a virtual workbench. He also started work on
medical visualization, leading to a steady stream of results
on volume rendering, virtual endoscopy, computer-aided
diagnosis and surgery planning. Most recently, he has
worked on very large data handling techniques, interactive
visual data analysis, atmospheric physics applications, and
geospatial visualization. He has co-authored more than
120 papers, many in top journals such as IEEE TVCG, IEEE
CG&A, Computer Graphics Forum, The Visual Computer, and
for conferences such as IEEE Visualization and VisWeek,
EG/IEEE EuroVis, the EG Virtual Environments Symposium,
ACM VRST, and MICCAI, and he has edited several volumes
of conference proceedings and collections of research papers.Frits has played a central role in the development and organization of the field, and has been active both in the European and in the US visualization communities. On
the European side, he has been an elected member of the
Eurographics Executive Committee and Vice Chairman.
He was also a chair of the Working Group on Visualization
in Scientific Computing until June 2011. He has been
member and chair of numerous program committees of
Eurographics conferences and workshops and of several
best paper award committees. In the US, he was a member
of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics from 1995
to 2000; he has been a member of the papers committees
and organizing committees of several IEEE Visualization
conferences and symposia, and also organized and presented
several tutorials and state-of-the-art reviews, co-organized
Dagstuhl seminars; he has been an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, ACM
Transactions on Graphics, and Computer Graphics Forum.
Frits was one of the pioneers in promoting visualization
research in Europe. In 1991 he organized the second,
highly successful European Workshop on Visualization in
Scientific Computing in Delft, following up on the first one,
held in Paris in April 1990. Frits made a major contribution
in fostering strong relations between Eurographics and
the IEEE Computer Society Visualization and Graphics
Technical Committee. This led to the joint Eurographics/
IEEE Symposium on Scientific Visualization held in Vienna in
May 1999, which developed later into the highly successful
annual EuroVis symposia. EuroVis is currently a vibrant event of which proceedings appear as a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum journal, and Frits has made important contributions to its success. A final highlight was his keynote presentation at Eurographics 2011, in which he shared his vision of the field of data visualization and described generic developments. He was recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Eurographics Association in recognition of his contributions to the field of visualization.

Publications

Publication period start: 2006
Number of co-authors: 36

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Eric J. Griffith
5
Gerwin de Haan
9
Michal Koutek
9

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Daniel Weiskopf
30
Helwig Hauser
31
Kwan-Liu Ma
60

Publications

Haan, Gerwin de, Piguillet, H., Post, Frits H. (2010): Spatial Navigation for Context-Aware Video Surveillance. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 30 (5) pp. 20-31. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2010.64

Haan, Gerwin de, Molenaar, Rene, Koutek, Michal, Post, Frits H. (2007): Consistent Viewing and Interaction for Multiple Users in Projection-Based VR Systems. In Comput. Graph. Forum, 26 (3) pp. 695-704. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2007.01093.x

Vrolijk, Benjamin, Post, Frits H. (2006): Interactive out-of-core isosurface visualisation in time-varying data sets. In Computers & Graphics, 30 (2) pp. 265-276. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2006.01.032

Botha, Charl P., Post, Frits H. (2005): Improved perspective visibility ordering for object-order volume rendering. In The Visual Computer, 21 (11) pp. 887-896. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00371-005-0298-y

Laramee, Robert S., Hauser, Helwig, Doleisch, Helmut, Vrolijk, Benjamin, Post, Frits H., Weiskopf, Daniel (2004): The State of the Art in Flow Visualization: Dense and Texture-Based Techniques. In Comput. Graph. Forum, 23 (2) pp. 203-222. https://diglib.eg.org/EG/CGF/volume23/issue2/v23i2pp203-222_abstract.html

Post, Frits H., Vrolijk, Benjamin, Hauser, Helwig, Laramee, Robert S., Doleisch, Helmut (2003): The State of the Art in Flow Visualisation: Feature Extraction and Tracking. In Comput. Graph. Forum, 22 (4) pp. 775-792. https://diglib.eg.org/EG/CGF/volume22/issue4/CGF_723.html

Reinders, Freek, Post, Frits H., Spoelder, Hans J. W. (2001): Visualization of time-dependent data with feature tracking and event detection. In The Visual Computer, 17 (1) pp. 55-71. https://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=1432-2315&volume=17&issue=1&spage=55

Sadarjoen, I. Ari, Post, Frits H. (2000): Detection, quantification, and tracking of vortices using streamline geometry. In Computers & Graphics, 24 (3) pp. 333-341. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0097-8493(00)00029-7

Ma, Kwan-Liu, Post, Frits H. (1999): Guest Editors' Introduction: Visualization Case Studies-Drawing a Roadmap for Future Visua. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 19 (5) pp. 48-49. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.1999.788798

Sadarjoen, I. Ari, Post, Frits H. (1997): Deformable Surface Techniques for Field Visualization. In Comput. Graph. Forum, 16 (3) pp. 109-116.

Walsum, Theo van, Post, Frits H. (1994): Selective Visualization of Vector Fields. In Comput. Graph. Forum, 13 (3) pp. 339-347.

Bronsvoort, Willem F., Nieuwenhuizen, Peter R. van, Post, Frits H. (1989): Display of profiled sweep objects. In The Visual Computer, 5 (3) pp. 147-157. https://

Blaas, Jorik, Botha, Charl P., Peters, Bart, Vos, Frans, Post, Frits H. (2005): Fast and Reproducible Fiber Bundle Selection in DTI Visualization. In: 16th IEEE Visualization Conference VIS 2005 23-28 October, 2005, Minneapolis, MN, USA. pp. 8. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VIS.2005.40

Persoon, Marc P., Serlie, Iwo, Post, Frits H., Truyen, Roel, Vos, Frans (2003): Visualization of Noisy and Biased Volume Data Using First and Second Order Derivative Tech. In: Turk, Greg, Wijk, Jarke J. van, II, Robert J. Moorhead (eds.) 14th IEEE Visualization 2003 Conference VIS 2003 19-24 October, 2003, Seattle, WA, USA. pp. 379-385.

Post, Frank J., Walsum, Theo van, Post, Frits H., Silver, Deborah (1995): Iconic Techniques for Feature Visualization. In: IEEE Visualization 1995 , 1995, . pp. 288-295. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/vis/1995/7187/00/71870288abs.htm

Sadarjoen, I. Ari, Post, Frits H., Ma, Bing, Banks, David C., Pagendarm, Hans-Georg (1998): Selective visualization of vortices in hydrodynamic flows. In: IEEE Visualization 1998 , 1998, . pp. 419-422. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/288216.288334

Zuiderveld, Karel J., Ooijen, Peter M. A. van, Chin-A-Woeng, John W. C., Buijs, Pieter C., Olree, Marco, Post, Frits H. (1996): Clinical Evaluation of Interactive Volume Visualization. In: IEEE Visualization 1996 , 1996, . pp. 367-370.

Haan, Gerwin de, Koutek, Michal, Post, Frits H. (2002): Towards intuitive exploration tools for data visualization in VR. In: Shi, Jiaoying, Hodges, Larry F., Sun, Hanqiu, Peng, Qunsheng (eds.) VRST 2002- Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology November 11-13, 2002, Hong Kong, China. pp. 105-112. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/585740.585758

Griffith, Eric J., Koutek, Michal, Post, Frits H., Heus, T., Jonker, H. J. J. (2006): A reprocessing tool for quantitative data analysis in a virtual environment. In: Slater, Mel, Kitamura, Yoshifumi, Tal, Ayellet, Amditis, Angelos, Chrysanthou, Yiorgos (eds.) VRST 2006 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology November 1-3, 2006, Limassol, Cyprus. pp. 212-215. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180495.1180538

Haan, Gerwin de, Griffith, Eric J., Post, Frits H. (2008): Using the Wii Balance Board™ as a low-cost VR interaction device. In: Feiner, Steven K., Thalmann, Daniel, Guitton, Pascal, Frohlich, Bernd, Kruijff, Ernst, Hachet, Martin (eds.) VRST 2008 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology October 27-29, 2008, Bordeaux, France. pp. 289-290. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1450579.1450657

Blaas, Jorik, Botha, Charl P., Post, Frits H. (2007): Interactive Visualization of Multi-Field Medical Data Using Linked Physical and Feature-Sp. In: Museth, Ken, Moller, Torsten, Ynnerman, Anders (eds.) EuroVis07 Joint Eurographics - IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization 23-25 May, 2007, Norrköping, Sweden. pp. 123-130. https://dx.doi.org/10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/123-130

Botha, Charl P., Post, Frits H. (2003): ShellSplatting: Interactive Rendering of Anisotropic Volumes. In: VisSym 2003 - Symposium on Visualization May 26-28, 2003, Grenoble, France.

Haan, Gerwin de, Koutek, Michal, Post, Frits H. (2007): Flexible Abstraction Layers for VR Application Development. In: Sherman, William R., Lin, Ming C., Steed, Anthony (eds.) IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, VR 2007 10-14 March, 2007, Charlotte, NC, USA. pp. 239-242. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VR.2007.352490

Haan, Gerwin de, Griffith, Eric J., Koutek, Michal, Post, Frits H. (2006): Hybrid Interfaces in VEs: Intent and Interaction. In: Lin, Ming, Hubbold, Roger J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments - EGVE 2006 , 2006, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 109-118. https://dx.doi.org/10.2312/EGVE/EGVE06/109-118

Haan, Gerwin de, Koutek, Michal, Post, Frits H. (2005): IntenSelect: Using Dynamic Object Rating for Assisting 3D Object Selection. In: Kjems, Eric, Blach, Roland (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th Int. Workshop on Immersive Projection Technology - 11th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments - IPT-EGVE 2005 , 2005, Aalborg, Denmark. pp. 201-209. https://dx.doi.org/10.2312/EGVE/IPT_EGVE2005/201-209

Griffith, Eric J., Post, Frits H., Koutek, Michal, Heus, T., Jonker, H. J. J. (2005): Feature Tracking in VR for Cumulus Cloud Life-Cycle Studies. In: Kjems, Eric, Blach, Roland (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th Int. Workshop on Immersive Projection Technology - 11th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments - IPT-EGVE 2005 , 2005, Aalborg, Denmark. pp. 121-128. https://dx.doi.org/10.2312/EGVE/IPT_EGVE2005/121-128

Haan, Gerwin de, Griffith, Eric J., Koutek, Michal, Post, Frits H. (2007): PDRIVE: The Projector-based, Desktop, Reach-In Virtual Environment. In: Frohlich, Bernd, Blach, Roland, Liere, Robert van (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th Int. Workshop on Immersive Projection Technology - 13th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments- IPT-EGVE 2007 , 2007, Weimar, Germany. pp. 9-16. https://dx.doi.org/10.2312/EGVE/IPT_EGVE2007/009-016

Koutek, Michal, Molenaar, Rene, Haan, Gerwin de, Post, Frits H. (2007): Visual Consistency in Rotational Manipulation Tasks in Sheared-Perceived Virtual Environme. In: Frohlich, Bernd, Blach, Roland, Liere, Robert van (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th Int. Workshop on Immersive Projection Technology - 13th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments- IPT-EGVE 2007 , 2007, Weimar, Germany. pp. 33-42. https://dx.doi.org/10.2312/EGVE/IPT_EGVE2007/033-042