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
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