Associate Professor, School of Computing
Ph.D., University of North
Carolina, 1993
Professor Whitaker joined the
faculty in 2000. He has interests in computer vision,
visualization, and image processing. In the area of medical image
processing, Dr. Whitaker is a codeveloper of the "Insight" toolkit
for segmenting and visualization the 3D color data associated with the
Visible Human Project. Dr. Whitaker is also working on new,
statistics-based methods for building surface models from noisy range
measurements, such as those from laser radar and ultrasound. In the
area of visualization, Dr. Whitaker is developing new methods for
visualizing biological volume datasets and for processing the surface
models that are derived from these datasets.