Research

Research in Media Arts and Technology spans a wide range of topics and projects related to digital media: computer music and sound design, interactive art, TransArchitecture, online communities, multimedia signal processing, human-computer interaction, multimedia networking, and much more.

MAT Research Groups and Labs



The Allosphere - Research Lab

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director

Research in a fully immersive, spherical visualization environment with applications in science, engineering, and the arts.



CREATE - Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Curtis Roads
Stephen T. Pope

Themes include distributed multimedia systems, spatial and surround sound, music/sound databases, and application and user interface development.



Four Eyes Lab

Matthew Turk

Research in Imaging, Interaction, and Innovative Interfaces - a mix of computer vision, augmented reality, mobile and wearable computing, and human computer interaction.



Vision Research Lab

B. S. Manjunath

Research in multimedia signal processing and analysis, including applications in large multimedia databases, bio-image informatics, digital libraries, data hiding, and image processing.



Networking and Multimedia Systems Lab

Kevin Almeroth

Research in the delivery of multimedia data over computer networks.



George Legrady Studio

George Legrady

Aesthetic research through the implementation of complex technologies for new forms of content, narratives and analysis.



Centrifuge.org

Marcos Novak

Research in Media and Virtual Architecture, Transvergence, TransArchitecture.



ViVoNets Lab

Jerry Gibson

Research in video, audio, and voice over wireless networks and multihop heterogeneous networks.



Professional Artists Lab

Nancy Kawalek

Creating and developing new works in film, theatre, television, radio and multimedia performance.



Interactive Digital Multimedia Program

NSF-funded IGERT program for interdisciplinary research centered on digital media.