VIOLab group, @KAUST_News, led by Pr Ivan Viola. Creating next-gen computer graphics and visualization technology for depicting life forms across all scales.

KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Joined October 2020
VIS 2024: DiffFit, Visually-Guided Differentiable Fitting of Molecule Structures to a Cryo-EM Map CUDA-accelerated search, 0 manual tweaking arxiv.org/abs/2404.02465 github.com/nanovis/DiffFitVi… By @RodenLuo, Zainab Alsuwaykit, @dawarkhan4, Ondřej Strnad, Tobias Isenberg, & Ivan Viola
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Exciting milestones for our group! 🎉 Two of our master's students successfully defended their theses: 📌 Da Li: Editable Dynamic Human Scene Reconstruction Using Gaussian Splatting Based on a Skinning Model 📌 Alexandra Irger: Towards Digital Twins for Coral Simulation
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Da is continuing his journey with a PhD with our group🧑‍🎓, while Alexandra has started an internship at Harvard Medical School to kick off her PhD studies. Congratulations to both! 🚀👏
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🎉 Congratulations to our incredible students on their remarkable achievements! This year, two PhD students and one Master's student successfully defended their theses: 1-Ngan Nguyen PhD: Cellular Mesoscale Visualization from Electron Microscopy Imaging. hdl.handle.net/10754/698799
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2- Ruwayda Alharbi PhD: Scaling Atomistic Molecular Visualization to Microscale for Science Outreach. hdl.handle.net/10754/701154
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3- Omar Mena MS: Conversational Visualization of Global Geospatial Data Using Text and Visual Information. hdl.handle.net/10754/701555 We are immensely proud of their hard work and contributions to advancing scientific visualization! 🚀👏 #sucess #Kaust #nanoVisualization
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Nanomatrix: a method for the interactive, on-the-fly procedural construction and rendering of extremely large molecular scenes, capable of representing multiple biological cells in atomistic detail. ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract… By R. Alharbi, O. Strnad, T. Klein, and I. Viola.
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A more complete video presentation here, with perhaps a bit less degradation from video compression, though sadly still quite a lot: youtu.be/l6Xuj1XDbx8
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And now, we even have Ondřej on Twitter! @ondrej__strnad
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Replying to @ieeevis
@ieeevis is coming up and Nanovis will be there! We'll be presenting our work on Wednesday, 16, from 10:15 AM to 10:40 AM, Florida time (GMT -4): – DiffFit: Differentiable Fitting of Molecules to a Cryo-EM Map – Nanomatrix: Scalable Construction of Crowded Bio Environments
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A preview of DiffFit here: xitter.cf/nanovis_group/status/1…
VIS 2024: DiffFit, Visually-Guided Differentiable Fitting of Molecule Structures to a Cryo-EM Map CUDA-accelerated search, 0 manual tweaking arxiv.org/abs/2404.02465 github.com/nanovis/DiffFitVi… By @RodenLuo, Zainab Alsuwaykit, @dawarkhan4, Ondřej Strnad, Tobias Isenberg, & Ivan Viola
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And here is Nanomatrix: xitter.cf/nanovis_group/status/1…
Nanomatrix: a method for the interactive, on-the-fly procedural construction and rendering of extremely large molecular scenes, capable of representing multiple biological cells in atomistic detail. ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract… By R. Alharbi, O. Strnad, T. Klein, and I. Viola.
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Any ideas what this particle could be? Isolated from HEK293T cells.
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And here is the complete IEEE VIS 2024 submission video, on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=dWcHDWT9…
VIS 2024: DiffFit, Visually-Guided Differentiable Fitting of Molecule Structures to a Cryo-EM Map CUDA-accelerated search, 0 manual tweaking arxiv.org/abs/2404.02465 github.com/nanovis/DiffFitVi… By @RodenLuo, Zainab Alsuwaykit, @dawarkhan4, Ondřej Strnad, Tobias Isenberg, & Ivan Viola
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Work conducted at @KaustResearch, @cemseKAUST, in collaboration with Tobias Isenberg from @Inria
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Apologies for the missing tag, Zainab can be found here: @ZinabJH And while Ondřej is unfortunately not on Twitter, he is on Instagram: instagram.com/ondrej__strnad
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Here's our differentiable microscopy simulation system that allows us to generate cryo-EM micrographs of complex scenes of biological structures, and to solve inverse problems through optimization, such as estimation of microscope parameters and denoising. Accepted @ PacificVis
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Work by Ngan Nguyen, Feng Liang, Dominik Engel, Ondřej Strnad, Timo Ropinski, and Ivan Viola. More info here: nanovis.org/DiffTEM.html And the paper over there: arxiv.org/abs/2205.04464 Temporary DOI: 10.1109/PacificVis60374.2024.00016
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And here's the final version, now published: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…
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Join us for the VIZBI Masterclass! Prof. Ivan Viola will be discussing the newest techniques for interactive visualization with GPU acceleration, particularly on the web: WebAssembly, WebGPU, WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL), with some examples using biological data.
Want to spend two half-days learning state-of-the-art data visualization methods from leading experts? Join the VIZBI Masterclass, an online training event on March 27-28, just before the VIZBI Workshop. vizbi.org/2023/Masterclass #DataViz #SciArt #biovis #SciComm @nanovis_group
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Come see our Nanovisualization demo at LEAP, and much more from KAUST! #LEAP23
Don't miss the experience that #KAUST Visualization Core Lab is presenting at #LEAP23. Visit our booth to learn about collaborations with domain researchers, as we accelerate discoveries through large-data visualization, #machinelearning and #datascience. #KAUSTatLEAP
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Congratulations to all winners, and in particular to our very own @RodenLuo for his work on time-efficient visualization of DNA simulations! For more information about this project, stay tuned.
WINNERS announced of the DESIGN X BIOINFORMATICS student competition! 🥳 Please see the details and winning entries here: DesXBioInf.i2d.uk #design #Bioinformatics Students from @RCA @KAUST_News Thanks to all contributors to this competition!
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