Bernice at a Glance

Bernice E. Rogowitz

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Research at the interface between human cognition and emerging technologies

Bernice Rogowitz earned her doctorate at Columbia University in Vision Research. She is interested in how human observers process and synthesize information, and has led research in spatial vision, spatial-temporal interactions, shape perception, color vision, and image perception. As a Scientist and Research Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, she used this perceptual perspective to contribute to many emerging technologies in a variety of disciplines, including finance, bioinformatics and medicine. Some topics include the measurement of display artifacts, the representation of meaning in data visualization, navigation through a digital archive of images,and conveying the sense of touch in 3-D Virtual Environments. Bernice has recently founded Visual Perspectives, a consulting company focused on vision, visualization and visual analysis. She has worked on a variety of interesting projects across many domains, including the NSF project, iPlant, with the University of Texas, Austin.

Areas of Research

• • Human Vision and Cognition

  • Perceptually-based visualization

  • Color and Colormaps

  • Semantic Image analysis and search

  • Multimedia internet search

  • Haptics and Touch

  • Memory in VR and Mixed Reality

  • Texture

• Recent Projects

  • Combining Human- and Machine-based approaches to finding features in high-dimentional data

• • Interactive visual data analysis across multiple visual components. iPlant Genotype-to-Phenotype (G2P) Visual Analytics working group

  • Metadata Mapper, a new web service visually mapping semantic information from one visualization or analysis onto another. iPToL Tree of Life Visualization Group

  • Music visualization

Professional Affiliations

• Senior Member, IEEE, 2004

• Fellow, SPIE International Society advancing light-based research, 2009

• Fellow, IS&T International Imaging Society, 2000

Professional Activities

• • Founder and Co-Editor-In -Chief, Journal of Perceptual Imaging

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  • Founder Co-chair, SPIE/IS&T Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, a multi-disciplinary conference on the relationship between research in perception, cognition, and imaging science, 1989-2018

  • Co-Chair, Viz Lies- How not to lie with visualization! IEEE VizWeek, 2009

  • General Chair, SPIE/IS&T Symposium on Electronic Imaging, 2000

  • Board Member, IS&T

  • IS&T Distinguished Lecturer, IS&T

  • Keynote speaker, Royal Institute of Optics, Sweden

  • Keynote speaker, IEEE ICIP Signal Processing conference in Thessalonika, Greece

  • Keynote speaker, Netherland University Winterschool

  • Scientific peer reviews, including ACM Computer Human Interaction (CHI) 2011, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)

Education

o Post-Doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Psychophysics, Harvard University

o Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Columbia University

o B.S, Experimental Psychology, Brandeis University