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NAMD: Scalable Molecular Dynamics Software NAMD is parallel molecular dynamics software designed to provide high-performance simulations of large biomolecular systems. NAMD was developed by the ... Read More NAMD is parallel molecular dynamics software designed to provide high-performance simulations of large biomolecular systems. NAMD was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group under the direction of Professor Klaus Schulten in collaboration with other faculty and laboratories at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To learn more about NAMD, please visit this website. Available Licenses The latest version of NAMD software is available free of charge for use by individuals, companies and academic institutions for non-commercial and internal business use only. The software is available under a ready-to-sign click-through agreement on the NAMD website. From this site, select the “Download NAMD” link and then the appropriate version of the software. You will be prompted to register (or login with your credentials), in order to review and accept the license, and to then receive access to software.
VMD: Visual Molecular Dynamics Software VMD is molecular visualization software for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. VMD was... Read More VMD is molecular visualization software for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. VMD was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group under the direction of Professor Klaus Schulten in collaboration with other faculty and laboratories at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To learn more about VMD please visit this website. Available Licenses The latest version of VMD is available free of charge for use by individuals, companies and academic institutions for non-commercial and internal business purposes only. The software is available under a ready-to-sign click-through agreement on the VMD website. From this site, select the “Download VMD” link and then the appropriate version of the software. You will be prompted to register (or login with your credentials), in order to review and accept the license, and to then receive access to software.
A New Human Face Detection Algorithm and System Thomas Huang has been recognized worldwide as a pioneer in research involving topics such as computer vision and signal processing, winning numerous honors and awards for... Read More Thomas Huang has been recognized worldwide as a pioneer in research involving topics such as computer vision and signal processing, winning numerous honors and awards for his seminal contributions to these fields. One noteable invention is Huang's facial recognition software. Consisting of three modules - face detection, discriminative manifold learning, and multiple linear regression - the age-estimation software was trained on a database containing photos of 1,600 faces. The software can estimate ages from 1 year to 93 years. The software’s accuracy ranges from about 50 percent when estimating ages to within 5 years, to more than 80 percent when estimating ages to within 10 years. The accuracy has the potential to be improved through additional training on larger databases of faces. In addition to performing tasks such as security control and surveillance monitoring, age-estimation software also could be used for electronic customer relationship management. Through facial and emotion recognition algorithms, Huang and his team have also been able to reconstruct a 3D face according to the input image and then personalize the 3D face model. This allows for the possibility of having synthetic talking faces deliver messages, instead of text. A method for detecting an object in an image includes calculating a log L likelihood of pairs of pixels at select positions in the image that are derived from training images. The calculated log L likelihood of the pairs of pixels is compared with a threshold value. The object is detected when the calculated log L likelihood is greater than the threshold value.
Blind Recovery of a Speech Source in Real-World Noise This technology is a robust speech recovery algorithm that rejects noises and enhances speech in a real-world noisy environment. The invention works with any type... Read More This technology is a robust speech recovery algorithm that rejects noises and enhances speech in a real-world noisy environment. The invention works with any type, number, or location of microphones and background noise sources. Speech is separated from background noise blindly. No information required beforehand about the speech, background noise, or environment The only preliminary assumption is that speech is high-kurtosis and most background noises are low-kurtosis
Virtual Director A three dimensional virtual reality creation, manipulation and editing system including a voice and three dimensional gesture input interface. An operator immersed... Read More A three dimensional virtual reality creation, manipulation and editing system including a voice and three dimensional gesture input interface. An operator immersed in a data structure preferably presented in a three dimensional immersion environment interacts with the data structure and performs operations on the data structure in the environment through the voice and gesture input interface. A virtual director receives input from the voice and gesture interface. The director records the input as keyframe values that are necessary time-based spline data points for commanding the display environment to redisplay a recorded spline path for viewing or operational purposes. The voice recognition system accepts commands according to a menu displayed in the three dimensional environment to enable various operational and display functions through the gesture input portion of the interface.
Real-Time Operating System For Commercial Off the Shelf Multi-Core Platforms in Embedded Systems Dr. Caccamo and his team from the University of IL have developed an operating system to solve the issue of temporal unpredictability when using multi-core platforms in... Read More Dr. Caccamo and his team from the University of IL have developed an operating system to solve the issue of temporal unpredictability when using multi-core platforms in hard real-time systems. This is especially useful in automotive applications. Assuming certain hardware configurations, this software can be used to achieve temporal predictability in commercial off the shelf hardware platforms. Publications – A Real-Time Scratchpad-Centric OS for Multi-Core Embedded Systems
Safe, Secure, Robust UAS Platform Dr. Bo Liu from the University of IL has developed a software platform for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS- aka drones) that facilitates safe and efficient recovery from... Read More Dr. Bo Liu from the University of IL has developed a software platform for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS- aka drones) that facilitates safe and efficient recovery from both physical and software attacks. This software uses multi-core processing power to ensure that the drone can respond to any threat in real-time while remaining stable. This platform is among the first to address both issues of cyber-security and environmental threats to drones, combining previously established technologies into one consistent system. Publications: X. Wang, N. Hovakimyan, and L. Sha, L1Simplex: Fault-Tolerant Control of Cyber-Physical Systems, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS13),Cyber-Physical Systems Week, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2013. Man-Ki Yoon, Sibin Mohan, Jaesik Choi, Jung-Eun Kim, Lui Sha, "SecureCore: A Multicore-based Intrusion Detection Architecture for Real-Time Embedded Systems," in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2013), pp. 21-31, Apr. 2013.
Method and Program Product for Solid Mechanics Modeling Workbench and Dynamic Display (TF00017) The invention is a method for modeling solids behavior using the following steps: obtaining load and load path data to apply to the solids, inputting the... Read More The invention is a method for modeling solids behavior using the following steps: obtaining load and load path data to apply to the solids, inputting the data to a model selected from a variety of models stored in a model library, the selected model generating model output data, and displaying the model output data in a graphical format. The invention is an integrated framework and tool for users to explore the implications of different solids mechanics models and different load/load path data with output presented in a graphical format to aid understanding.
A Systematic Approach to Uncover Security Flaws in GUI Logic Website spoofing, or phishing, is a serious problem targeting online user information. It can be used to steal usernames and passwords from important websites such... Read More Website spoofing, or phishing, is a serious problem targeting online user information. It can be used to steal usernames and passwords from important websites such as bank websites. Dr. Meseguer from the University of Illinois, jointly with Microsoft Research, developed a method for uncovering GUI logic flaws in software implementations. The systems specifically address status-bar spoofing and address bar spoofing scenarios but could also address a variety of other classes of problems.
Multi-View Wide-Baseline Stereo System In accordance with one or more aspects of a match, expand, and filter technique for multi-view stereopsis, features across multiple images of an object are matched to... Read More In accordance with one or more aspects of a match, expand, and filter technique for multi-view stereopsis, features across multiple images of an object are matched to obtain a sparse set of patches for the object. The sparse set of patches is expanded to obtain a dense set of patches for the object, and the dense set of patches is filtered to remove erroneous patches. Optionally, reconstructed patches can be converted into 3D mesh models. From the project's website: Patch-Based Multi-view Stereo Software (PMVS) is a multi-view stereo software that takes a set of images and camera parameters, then reconstructs 3D structure of an object or a scene visible in the images. Only rigid structure is reconstructed, in other words, the software automatically ignores non-rigid objects such as pedestrians in front of a building. The software outputs a set of oriented points instead of a polygonal (or a mesh) model, where both the 3D coordinate and the surface normal are estimated at each oriented point.

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