Staff Profile
Professor Nick Holliman
Professor of Visualization
- Email: nick.holliman@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: (0) 191 208 8972
- Address: Room 4.039, School of Computing
Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle University
1 Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG
Background
Nick Holliman researches the science and engineering of visualization and visual analytics, addressing the fundamental challenges of visualization for Data Science and AI. His research includes the psychophysics of the human visual system, the creation of novel algorithms for the control of image content to match human abilities and demonstrating how these algorithms work in practice in scalable cloud-based software tools and award-winning 3D visualizations. He has worked in both industrial and academic environments and is experienced in delivering commercial impact from research outputs. He has led the design of high-performance visualization theatres at four different institutions which have been specified to support both individual and team-based decision making. He leads the Scalable research group at Newcastle University, is visualization lead for the Newcastle University Centre of Research Excellence in Data and is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute where he co-founded and co-convenes the Visualization Interest Group #VizTIG.
He has expertise in stereoscopic visualization and all things 3D, you can find examples of this and recent research on his personal web pages at www.binocularity.org
Nick is currently co-chair of the IS&T Stereoscopic Displays and Applications
conference which is held annually in Silicon Valley.
You can find a comprehensive list of his academic publications and commercial patents using Google Scholar, click here.
Nick is a member of the IS&T, the Eurographics Association, the Data Visualization Society, the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
Research
You can find examples of Nick's recent visualization research on his personal web pages at www.binocularity.org
You can find a comprehensive list of his academic publications and commercial patents using Google Scholar, click here.
Teaching
Nick's has taught on and designed new courses and degree programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students at three Russell group universities in the UK and Singapore. This has included courses on computer graphics, data visualization, algorithms and data structures, programming in Java, C, GOlang and Python. He has contributed significantly to the design of undergraduate programmes in Computer Science and Interactive Media at undergraduate level and to courses in Data Science and Machine Learning at postgraduate level.
Nick's free online courses are designed to be available worldwide, including direct video hosting in China, you can find the latest at www.binocularity.org including:
Publications
- Godwin H, Holliman NS, Menneer T, Liversedge S, Cave K, Donnelly N. Assessing the benefits of stereoscopic displays to visual search: methodology and initial findings. In: Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXVI. 2015, San Francisco, California: SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering.
- Berry J, Budgen D, Holliman N. Evaluating subjective impressions of quality controlled 3D films on large and small screens. Journal of Display Technology 2015, 11(11), 927-938.
- Berry J, Roberts D, Holliman NS. 3D sound and 3D image interactions: a review of audio-visual depth perception. In: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIX. 2014, San Francisco: SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. In Preparation.
- Weaver J, Holliman NS. Interlopers 3D: experiences designing a stereoscopic game. In: Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXV. 2014, San Francisco: SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. In Preparation.
- Habib M, Lowell J, Holliman N, Hunter A, Vaideanu D, Hildreth A, Steel D. Assessment of stereoscopic optic disc images using an autostereoscopic screen - Experimental study. BMC Ophthalmology 2008, 8(13).
- Butt M, Cross E, Holliman N, Kempton L, Legget J, Mackenzie E, Ross H, Sapsed J, Swords J, Vallance P, Whitehurst F. Creative Fuse North East: Initial Report. Newcastle University, UK, 2017.
- Holliman N, Watson P. Scalable Real-Time Visualization Using the Cloud. IEEE Cloud Computing 2015, 2(6), 90-96.
- Godwin HJ, Menneer T, Liversedge SP, Cave KR, Holliman NS, Donnelly N. Adding depth to overlapping displays can improve visual search performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2017, 43(8), 1532-1549.
- Holliman NS, Turner M, Dowsland S, Cloete R, Picton T. Designing a Cloud-based 3D Visualization Engine for Smart Cities. In: Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXVIII. 2017, Society for Imaging Science and Technology. In Preparation.
- Holliman NS, Robinson MG. Binocular fixation imaging method and apparatus. United States, US 2016/0007016 A1, 17/01/2016.
- Roberts D, Ivrissimtzis I, Holliman N. An evaluation of reconstruction filters for a path-searching task in 3D. In: Sixth International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2014). 2014, Singapore, Singapore: IEEE.
- Godwin HJ, Menneer T, Liversedge SP, Cave KR, Holliman NS, Donnelly N. Experience with searching in displays containing depth improves search performance by training participants to search more exhaustively. Acta Psychologica 2020, 210, 103173.
- Cloete R, Holliman NS. Measuring and simulating latency in interactive remote rendering systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05411: ArXiv, 2019. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05411.
- Holliman NS, Antony M, Charlton J, Dowsland S, James P, Turner M. Petascale Cloud Supercomputing for Terapixel Visualization of a Digital Twin. Ithaca, New York: arXiv, 2019. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04820.
- Holliman NS, Antony M, Charlton J, Dowsland S, James P, Turner M. Petascale Cloud Supercomputing for Terapixel Visualization of a Digital Twin. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 2019, n/a, n/a.
- Holliman NS, Coltekin A, Fernstad SJ, Simpson MD, Wilson KJ, Woods AJ. Visual Entropy and the Visualization of Uncertainty. arXiv 2019, arXiv:1907.12879v1.
- Woods AJ, Holliman NS, Favalora GE, Kawai T, Sommer B. Stereoscopic displays and applications XXIX - Introduction. In: IS and T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology. 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA: Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
- Dowsland S, Turner MD, Holliman N. A Scalable Platform for Visualization Using the Cloud. In: International Conference on Computer Games, Multimedia & Allied Technology. 2017, Singapore: Global Science and Technology Forum = GSTF.