Search Results - "IEEE Visualization 2004"

Simplifying Flexible Isosurfaces Using Local Geometric Measures by Carr, Hamish, Snoeyink, Jack, van de Panne, Michiel

“…The contour tree, an abstraction of a scalar field that encodes the nesting relationships of isosurfaces, can be used to accelerate isosurface extraction, to…”
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Importance-Driven Volume Rendering by Viola, Ivan, Kanitsar, Armin, Groller, Meister Eduard

“…This paper introduces importance-driven volume rendering as a novel technique for automatic focus and context display of volumetric data. Our technique is a…”
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Optimal Global Conformal Surface Parameterization by Jin, Miao, Wang, Yalin, Yau, Shing-Tung, Gu, Xianfeng

“…All orientable metric surfaces are Riemann surfaces and admit global conformal parameterizations. Riemann surface structure is a fundamental structure and…”
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Tracking of Vector Field Singularities in Unstructured 3D Time-Dependent Datasets by Garth, Christoph, Tricoche, Xavier, Scheuermann, Gerik

“…In this paper, we present an approach for monitoring the positions of vector field singularities and related structural changes in time-dependent datasets. The…”
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Surface Reconstruction of Noisy and Defective Data Sets by Xie, Hui, McDonnell, Kevin T., Qin, Hong

“…We present a novel surface reconstruction algorithm that can recover high-quality surfaces from noisy and defective data sets without any normal or orientation…”
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Dual Marching Cubes by Nielson, Gregory M.

“…We present the definition and computational algorithms for a new class of surfaces which are dual to the isosurface produced by the widely used marching cubes…”
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Quick-VDR: Interactive View-Dependent Rendering of Massive Models by Yoon, Sung-Eui, Salomon, Brian, Gayle, Russell, Manocha, Dinesh

“…We present a novel approach for interactive view-dependent rendering of massive models. Our algorithm combines view-dependent simplification, occlusion…”
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Interactive Design of Multi-Perspective Images for Visualizing Urban Landscapes by Roman, Augusto, Garg, Gaurav, Levoy, Marc

“…Multi-perspective images are a useful way to visualize extended, roughly planar scenes such as landscapes or city blocks. However, constructing effective…”
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Stream Line and Path Line Oriented Topology for 2D Time-Dependent Vector Fields by Theisel, Holger, Weinkauf, Tino, Hege, Hans-Christian, Seidel, Hans-Peter

“…Topological methods aim at the segmentation of a vector field into areas of different flow behavior. For 2D time-dependent vector fields, two such…”
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TexMol: Interactive Visual Exploration of Large Flexible Multi-Component Molecular Complexes by Bajaj, Chandrajit, Djeu, Peter, Siddavanahalli, Vinay, Thane, Anthony

“…While molecular visualization software has advanced over the years, today, most tools still operate on individual molecular structures with limited facility to…”
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Physically Based Methods for Tensor Field Visualization by Hotz, Ingrid, Feng, Louis, Hagen, Hans, Hamann, Bernd, Joy, Kenneth, Jeremic, Boris

“…The physical interpretation of mathematical features of tensor fields is highly application-specific. Existing visualization methods for tensor fields only…”
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Visualization in Grid Computing Environments by Brodlie, Ken, Duce, David, Gallop, Julian, Sagar, Musbah, Walton, Jeremy, Wood, Jason

“…Grid computing provides a challenge for visualization system designers. In this research, we evolve the dataflow concept to allow parts of the visualization…”
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Topological Lines in 3D Tensor Fields by Zheng, Xiaoqiang, Pang, Alex

“…Visualization of 3D tensor fields continues to be a major challenge in terms of providing intuitive and uncluttered images that allow the users to better…”
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Local and Global Comparison of Continuous Functions by Edelsbrunner, Herbert, Harer, John, Natarajan, Vijay, Pascucci, Valerio

“…We introduce local and global comparison measures for a collection of k ≤ d real-valued smooth functions on a common d-dimensional Riemannian manifold. For k =…”
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Visualizing Competitive Behaviors in Multi-User Virtual Environments by Hoobler, Nate, Humphreys, Greg, Agrawala, Maneesh

“…We present a system for enhancing observation of user interactions in virtual environments. In particular, we focus on analyzing behavior patterns in the…”
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Haptic Display of Interaction between Textured Models by Otaduy, Miguel A., Jain, Nitin, Sud, Avneesh, Lin, Ming C.

“…Surface texture is among the most salient haptic characteristics of objects; it can induce vibratory contact forces that lead to perception of roughness. In…”
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Lighting Transfer Functions Using Gradient Aligned Sampling by Lum, Eric B., Ma, Kwan-Liu

“…An important task in volume rendering is the visualization of boundaries between materials. This is typically accomplished using transfer functions that…”
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Dual Contouring with Topology-Preserving Simplification Using Enhanced Cell Representation by Zhang, Nan, Hong, Wei, Kaufman, Arie

“…We present a fast, topology-preserving approach for isosurface simplification. The underlying concept behind our approach is to preserve the disconnected…”
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Real-Time Motion Estimation and Visualization on Graphics Cards by Strzodka, Robert, Garbe, Christoph

“…We present a tool for real-time visualization of motion features in 2D image sequences. The motion is estimated through an eigen-vector analysis of the…”
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Linear and Cubic Box Splines for the Body Centered Cubic Lattice by Entezari, Alireza, Dyer, Ramsay, Moller, Torsten

“…In this paper we derive piecewise linear and piecewise cubic box spline reconstruction filters for data sampled on the body centered cubic (BCC) lattice. We…”
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