Mike Roberts, BSc (Hons)

Education

M. Sc. Computer Science
Level Set Volume Segmentation using Programmable Graphics Hardware
University of Calgary, August 2010
3.85 / 4.00 GPA

B. Sc. (Honors, Internship) Computer Science
Computer Game Design Concentration, Philosophy Minor
University of Calgary, 2007
3.37 / 4.00 GPA

Research Interests

Parallel Algorithms, GPU Computing (GPGPU), Level Set Segmentation, Volume Visualization, Non-Photorealistic Rendering, Illustrative Visualization, Real-Time Global Illumination, Rendering Pipelines and Architectures, Geometric Reasoning from Photograph Collections, Sketch-Based Interfaces

Patents

M Roberts, JR Mitchell, MC Sousa. Parallel Process for Level Set Segmentation of Volume Data. United States Provisional Patent CAL-140P-USP1 filed on June 7th, 2010 (patent pending).

M Roberts, JR Mitchell, MC Sousa. Level Set Segmentation of Volume Data. United States Provisional Patent CAL-112P-USP1 filed on September 25th, 2009 (patent pending).

Papers

M Roberts, J Packer, MC Sousa, JR Mitchell. A Work-Efficient GPU Algorithm for Level Set Segmementation. Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Conference on High Performance Graphics 2010.
[Paper - PDF] [Slides - PDF] [Poster - PDF] [WMV] [MOV]

S Bruckner, P Rautek, I Viola, M Roberts, MC Sousa, ME Groller. Hybrid Visibility Compositing and Masking for Illustrative Rendering. Computers and Graphics, Special Issue on Illustrative Visualization, 2010.
[PDF] [AVI1] [AVI2] [AVI3]

Podium Presentations

M Roberts, J Packer, MC Sousa, JR Mitchell. Interactive 3D Level Set Segmentation on Modern Graphics Hardware. Refereed podium presentation at The Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting 2010 (to appear).

M Roberts, E Penner, J Packer, MC Sousa, JR Mitchell. Advanced Medical Volume Rendering and Segmentation on the GPU. Refereed podium presentation at The Nvidia GPU Technology Conference Research Summit 2010 (to appear).

M Roberts, J Packer, MC Sousa, JR Mitchell. Level Set Segmentation of Large Medical Data Sets on Modern Graphics Hardware. Refereed podium presentation at The 10th Annual Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference 2009.
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Posters

M Roberts, J Packer, JR Mitchell, MC Sousa. A Work-Efficient GPU Algorithm for Level Set Segmentation. Refereed poster at The Nvidia GPU Technology Conference Research Summit 2010 (to appear).

M Roberts, MC Sousa, JR Mitchell. A Work-Efficient GPU Algorithm for Level Set Segmentation. Refereed poster at ACM SIGGRAPH 2010. ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Student Research Competition Semi-Finalist.
[Abstract - PDF] [Poster - PDF] [WMV] [MOV]

M Roberts, J Packer, MC Sousa, JR Mitchell. Using Desktop Graphics Processors in Diagnostic Medicine. Refereed poster at The University of Calgary Graduate Conference 2010. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Best Poster Award.
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M Roberts, J Packer, MC Sousa, JR Mitchell. Level Set Segmentation of Large Medical Data Sets on Modern Graphics Hardware. Refereed poster at The 25th Anniversary Alberta Cancer Research Institute Research Meeting 2009.
[PDF]

M Roberts, J Packer, JR Mitchell, MC Sousa. CUDA-Accelerated Sparse Field Level Set Segmentation of Large Medical Data Sets. Refereed poster at The Nvidia GPU Technology Conference Research Summit 2009.
[PDF]

Invited Talks

Honors and Awards

ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Student Research Competition Semi-Finalist (2010)
University of Calgary Graduate Conference 2010 Best Poster (2010)
Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship (2009, 2008)
Jason Lang Scholarship (2005)
University of Calgary Peer Assistance Bursary (2005, 2004, 2003)

Contact Information

mlrobert at ucalgary dot ca       University of Calgary       LinkedIn