1. Examples of Projects from Previous years
Summer Ventures

2. Gaining A Thousand Words: Connecting Visualization, Comprehension, and Memory
Trey Gordner
Jack Britt – Fayetteville, NC
Summer Ventures in Science and Math
Dr. Rahman Tashakkori and Mr. Jere Miles
Appalachian State University
July 26th, 2008

3. Results

4. Results

5. Results

6. Analyzing Period of Simple Pendulum
Teofilus Gunawan
Forestview High School; Gastonia, NC
Summer Ventures in Science and Math 2008
Visual and Image Processing
Dr. Rahman Tashakkori and Mr. Jere Miles
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC; July 26, 2008

7. Logitech after

8. Result – mass variation

9. Bend It Like Newton Bend It Like Newton
Sasha Gogoli
Rahman Tashakkori & Jere Miles
Polk County High School, NC
Appalachian State, NC, 2008
Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics
Visual & Image Processing

10. Videos

11. Mathematical Models
Angle=450
Velocity= 16 yd/sec

12. Analyzing the Visualization of Occupational Stereotypes
Sarah Brodmerkel & Matt Pittman
&
HeideTrask HS and South Lenoir HS Summer Ventures 2008 Appalachian State University Dr. Rahman Tashakkori and Jere Miles

13. Results III Hypothesis: Jobs that are considered
more respectable and economically
beneficial will likely be attached to white males.
95% of readers thought that the aerospace engineer was a male.
68% of readers also thought that the NASA employee was white/Caucasian.

14. Using Skin and Visualization to Determine Sex, Race, and Age Group of an Human
Jermiah Boyd
Summer Ventures in Science and Math
Appalachian State University
Visual Imaging & Processing
Dr. Rahman Tashakkori & Jere Miles
July 2008

15. Pictures of the skin

16. Results hypothesis was correct
majority of the group were teenagers, Caucasian, and male

17. Creating 3D models out of 2D images using fruit
Jeffie Chang
Cary Academy
Summer Ventures for Science and Mathematics 2008
Appalachian State University
Dr. Rahman Tashakkori, Mr. Jere Miles

21. Seeing Timbres: Visualizing the Components of Sounds
James Kuo
Sanderson High School, Raleigh, NC
Summer Ventures in Science and Math 2008
Visual and Image Processing
Dr. Rahman Tashakkori, Mr. Jere Miles
Appalachian State University
July 2008

22. Methodology Sampling of two instruments Display of waveforms
Matlab Plot/Subtract
Analysis of resultant images

23. Difference of the two signals
Results (cont'd)‏
Difference of the two signals

24. The Sight of Music Jacob Seibel: cowofwar91@aol.com
Louisburg High School
Summer Ventures in Science and Math 2008
Visual and Image Processing
Dr. Rahman Tashakkori, Mr. Jere Miles
Appalachian State University
July 2008

25. The Finished Quiz

26. ANALYZING THE PORES ON CEREAL TO DETERMINE THE COST EFFICIENCY OF GENERIC BRANDS
Ian Dohm:
Cary Academy
SummerVentures in Science and Math at ASU 2008
Dr Tashakori and Jere Miles

28. Image Processing
Set scale
Measure width of cereal

29. Image Processing
Threshold darks
NOT Black (0)
ImageJ (image processor)

30. Height Analysis Based on Bone Measurement
Holly Anderson
Southeast High School, Greensboro, NC
Summer Ventures in Science and Math
Visual and Image Processing
Rahman Tashakkori & Jere Miles
Appalachian State, NC, July 16, 2008

32. Riding the Waves Learning Perfect Pitch through the Shapes of Sound
Erick Tello
Bandys High School
Summer Ventures in Science & Math
Visual & Image Processing
July 24, 2008
Appalachian State University
Dr. Rahman Tashakkori

33. Riding the Waves Results Inst: Piano Note: C4 Freq: 261.63 Hz
The top 2 waves are the instrument recording in stereo; the bottom is the pure note in mono.

34. Detecting Alzheimer’s using MRI Brain Images
EBONY GONZALEZ
VIP SUMMER VENTURES
Dr. Tashakkori
East Gaston High School

35. IMAGEJ
AFTER Sharpening & Smoothing
BEFORE
SHARPENING & SMOOTHING

36. Time of the Crime By: Breanna Lawson
Bartlett Yancey Senior High School
Summer Ventures for Science and Mathematics
Visual & Image Processing
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
July 26, 08

37. Experiments/Research Cont'd
Cut the film
Found the best clips with shadows

38. Experiment/Research Cont'd
Use Excel to compare measurements to the control measurements

39. Using Visualization for Handwriting and Signature Analysis
Tushar Bulsara –
Ashbrook High School
Gastonia, NC
Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics 2008
Visual and Image Processing
Dr. Rahman Tashakkori, Mr. Jere Miles
Appalachian State University
July 2008

40. Pattern found in letter “e”

41. Pattern of letter “y”

42. Differences in histograms
Authentic 1
Authentic 2
Forged 2
Forged 1