Current projects include the example-based colorization of images and volumes, semantic and infinite zooms enabled by texture synthesis, size- and angle-preserving texturing of arbitrary objects, and point-based surface rendering (adding special effects, such as motion blur/hints), and interactive fly-throughs of realistic, large-scale urban environments (virtual Manhattan) at high-levels of detail (less than an inch resolution). These topics are also relevant in the context of illustrative (expressive) data and volume visualization.

	Geometry Field for Accurate Real-time Reflection S. Li, Z. Fan, X. Yin, K. Mueller, A. Kaufman, and X. Gu Eurographics 2006 (Short Papers) Vienna, Austria, October 2006 pp. 29-32
	Color space CAD N . Neophytou and K. Mueller ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 (Sketches) Boston, MA, August 2006
	Uniform texture synthesis and texture mapping using global parameterization L. Wang, X. Gu, K. Mueller, and S.-T. Yau Pacific Graphics 2005 (also appeared in a special issue of The Visual Computer) Macao, China, October 2005 pp. 801-810
	Generating sub-resolution detail in images and volumes using constrained texture synthesis L. Wang and K. Mueller IEEE Visualization 2004 Austin, Texas, October 2004 pp. 75-82
	Feature-preserving distance fields H. Qu, N. Zhang, R. Shao, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller IEEE/ACM Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics Austin, Texas, October 2004 pp. 39-46
	Point-based surface rendering with motion blur X. Guan and K. Mueller Symposium on Point-Based Graphics Zurich, Switzerland, June 2004 pp. 33-40
	Transferring color to greyscale images T. Welsh, M. Ashikhmin, and K. Mueller ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH'02) vol. 21, no. 3,  pp. 277-280, 2002