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Vialab is led by Dr. Christopher Collins at Ontario Tech University.
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Research Blog

  1. AI Meets the Piano: How LLMs Are Transforming Sight-Reading Practice

    by Fareeha Malik

    Learning to play the piano is a deeply rewarding journey, but it comes with a notoriously steep hurdle: sight-reading. Sight-reading is the ability to read and play a piece of sheet music fluently on the first look, much like reading a book out loud in your native language. While essential  ...Read More


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  1. NeuroSight: Controlling Cameras with Your Mind and Gaze

    by Fareeha Malik

    We’ve all been there: you are at a concert watching your favorite artist perform live, but instead of taking in the moment, you find yourself reaching into your pocket, unlocking your phone, dodging random notifications, and holding up a screen. Digital devices have blurred the boundaries between  ...Read More

  2. AI Meets the Piano: How LLMs Are Transforming Sight-Reading Practice

    by Fareeha Malik

    Learning to play the piano is a deeply rewarding journey, but it comes with a notoriously steep hurdle: sight-reading. Sight-reading is the ability to read and play a piece of sheet music fluently on the first look, much like reading a book out loud in your native language. While essential  ...Read More

  3. Case Study: Querying a Video Dataset Using Explainable A.I.

    by Ethan Duggan

    Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is an emerging field of artificial intelligence that focuses on the development an AI models that can explain their behavior on some level to human collaborators. These explanations can be developer-focused to help in understanding, designing, and improving  ...Read More

  4. Vialab @ IEEE VIS 2019: A summary of the 8 research projects presented by the Ontario Tech visualization group Vialab at the IEEE VIS 2019 Conference

    by Christopher Collins

    This year at the IEEE VIS Conference (Oct 19–25), members of the Ontario Tech University visualization research group Vialab will be at the Vancouver Convention Centre to present research results across the entire spectrum of conference events. Starting on Saturday, visiting researcher Tommaso Elli  ...Read More

  5. Bridging the Gap: How We’re Connecting Text Mining and Visualization

    by Fareeha Malik

    Have you ever wondered how scientists keep track of the thousands of research papers published every year? In fields like Visual Text Analytics, where experts use interactive charts to make sense of massive amounts of text data, the sheer volume of new ideas can be overwhelming. In our survey  ...Read More

  6. Can We Learn to Trust AI? The Essential Role of Interactive Visualization

    by Fareeha Malik

    As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems increasingly influence critical decisions across healthcare, finance, policy, and everyday life, questions around trustworthiness, fairness, interpretability, and accountability have taken center stage. But how do humans actually come to trust these complex  ...Read More

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