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Milan Ikits

I am currently employed as a software engineer at Stryker. I completed my Ph.D. in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute under the supervision of Chuck Hansen. I am originally from Hungary and received a diploma from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

My research interests include the broad areas of interactive computer graphics, scientific computing and visualization, human-computer interaction, haptics, and robotics. In my dissertation research I developed and evaluated graphical and haptic rendering techniques that help scientists explore their data sets more effectively.
I have also done work on using programmable graphics hardware for volume visualization, simulation, and processing applications.

Contact Information

Email:

ikits[]sci utah edu

Publications

	Interactive Exploration of Volumetric Data Sets with a Combined Visual and Haptic Interface Milan Ikits Ph.D. Dissertation, SCI Institute Technical Report UUSCI-2007-005, University of Utah, April 2007
	The Proxy Chain Method and Its Application to Scientific Visualization Milan Ikits and Charles Hansen IEEE Haptics, Alexandria, VA, pages 525-532, March 2006
	Hardware-Assisted Visibility Sorting for Unstructured Volume Rendering Steven Callahan, Milan Ikits, Joao Comba, and Claudio Silva IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11(3), 2005
	The Visual Haptic Workbench Milan Ikits and J. Dean Brederson Visualization Handbook, eds. Charles Hansen and Christopher Johnson, pages 431-447, Academic Press, December 2004
	A Focus and Context Interface for Interactive Volume Rendering Milan Ikits and Charles Hansen Manuscript, May 2004
	Volume Rendering Techniques Milan Ikits, Joe Kniss, Aaron Lefohn, and Charles Hansen GPU Gems: Programming Techniques, Tips and Tricks for Real-Time Graphics, ed. Randima Fernando, Addison Wesley, pages 667-692, 2004
	A Constraint-Based Technique for Haptic Volume Exploration Milan Ikits, J. Dean Brederson, Charles Hansen, and Christopher Johnson IEEE Visualization, Seattle, WA, pages 263-269, October 2003
	Gaussian Transfer Functions for Multi-Field Volume Visualization Joe Kniss, Simon Premoze, Milan Ikits, Aaron Lefohn, Charles Hansen, and Emil Praun IEEE Visualization, Seattle, WA, pages 497-504, October 2003
	A Comprehensive Calibration and Registration Procedure for the Visual Haptic Workbench Milan Ikits, Charles Hansen, and Christopher Johnson Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, Zurich, Switzerland, pages 247-254, May 2003
	An Improved Calibration Framework for Electromagnetic Tracking Devices Milan Ikits, J. Dean Brederson, Charles Hansen, and John Hollerbach IEEE Virtual Reality, Yokohama, Japan, pages 63-70, March 2001
	Coregistration of Pose Measurement Devices Using Nonlinear Least Squares Parameter Estimation Milan Ikits School of Computing Technical Report UUCS-00-018, University of Utah, December 2000
	The Visual Haptic Workbench J. Dean Brederson, Milan Ikits, Christopher Johnson, and Charles Hansen PHANToM Users Group Workshop, Aspen, CO, pages 46-49, October 2000
	Kinematic Calibration Using a Plane Constraint Milan Ikits and John Hollerbach IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque, NM, pages 3191-3196, April 1997

Software Contributions

	The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) An easy-to-use portable library for OpenGL extension loading. Developed jointly with Marcelo Magallon.
	Hardware-Assisted Visibility Sorting (HAVS) Developed in collaboration with Steve Callahan, Claudio Silva, and Joao Comba.
	The Teem Toolkit A set of ANSI C libraries for manipulation, measurement, and visualization of structured scientific data. Written by Gordon Kindlmann. My contributions include Windows, png, gzip, and bzip2 support and helping with various design decisions.
	SCIRun/BioImage I developed the core of the direct volume rendering engine of the SCIRun problem solving environment.