37-Issue 1: Recent submissions

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    • Application‐Specific Tone Mapping Via Genetic Programming 

      Debattista, K. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      High dynamic range (HDR) imagery permits the manipulation of real‐world data distinct from the limitations of the traditional, low dynamic range (LDR), content. The process of retargeting HDR content to traditional LDR ...

    • Distinctive Approaches to Computer Graphics Education 

      Santos, B. Sousa; Dischler, J.‐M.; Adzhiev, V.; Anderson, E.F.; Ferko, A.; Fryazinov, O.; Ilčík, M.; Ilčíková, I.; Slavik, P.; Sundstedt, V.; Svobodova, L.; Wimmer, M.; Zara, J. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      This paper presents the latest advances and research in Computer Graphics education in a nutshell. It is concerned with topics that were presented at the Education Track of the Eurographics Conference held in Lisbon in ...

    • A Survey on Multimodal Medical Data Visualization 

      Lawonn, K.; Smit, N.N.; Bühler, K.; Preim, B. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Multi‐modal data of the complex human anatomy contain a wealth of information. To visualize and explore such data, techniques for emphasizing important structures and controlling visibility are essential. Such fused overview ...

    • Interactive Large‐Scale Procedural Forest Construction and Visualization Based on Particle Flow Simulation 

      Kohek, Štefan; Strnad, Damjan (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Interactive visualization of large forest scenes is challenging due to the large amount of geometric detail that needs to be generated and stored, particularly in scenarios with a moving observer such as forest walkthroughs ...

    • ProactiveCrowd: Modelling Proactive Steering Behaviours for Agent‐Based Crowd Simulation 

      Luo, Linbo; Chai, Cheng; Ma, Jianfeng; Zhou, Suiping; Cai, Wentong (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      How to realistically model an agent's steering behaviour is a critical issue in agent‐based crowd simulation. In this work, we investigate some proactive steering strategies for agents to minimize potential collisions. To ...

    • Olfaction and Selective Rendering 

      Harvey, Carlo; Bashford‐Rogers, Thomas; Debattista, Kurt; Doukakis, Efstratios; Chalmers, Alan (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Accurate simulation of all the senses in virtual environments is a computationally expensive task. Visual saliency models have been used to improve computational performance for rendered content, but this is insufficient ...

    • Frame Rate vs Resolution: A Subjective Evaluation of Spatiotemporal Perceived Quality Under Varying Computational Budgets 

      Debattista, K.; Bugeja, K.; Spina, S.; Bashford‐Rogers, T.; Hulusic, V. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Maximizing performance for rendered content requires making compromises on quality parameters depending on the computational resources available . Yet, it is currently unclear which parameters best maximize perceived ...

    • Large‐Scale Pixel‐Precise Deferred Vector Maps 

      Thöny, Matthias; Billeter, Markus; Pajarola, Renato (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Rendering vector maps is a key challenge for high‐quality geographic visualization systems. In this paper, we present a novel approach to visualize vector maps over detailed terrain models in a pixel‐precise way. Our method ...

    • An Efficient Hybrid Incompressible SPH Solver with Interface Handling for Boundary Conditions 

      Takahashi, Tetsuya; Dobashi, Yoshinori; Nishita, Tomoyuki; Lin, Ming C. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      We propose a hybrid smoothed particle hydrodynamics solver for efficientlysimulating incompressible fluids using an interface handling method for boundary conditions in the pressure Poisson equation. We blend particle ...

    • Uniformization and Density Adaptation for Point Cloud Data Via Graph Laplacian 

      Luo, Chuanjiang; Ge, Xiaoyin; Wang, Yusu (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Point cloud data is one of the most common types of input for geometric processing applications. In this paper, we study the point cloud density adaptation problem that underlies many pre‐processing tasks of points data. ...

    • Stereo‐Consistent Contours in Object Space 

      Bukenberger, Dennis R.; Schwarz, Katharina; Lensch, Hendrik P. A. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Notebook scribbles, art or technical illustrations—line drawings are a simplistic method to visually communicate information. Automated line drawings often originate from virtual 3D models, but one cannot trivially experience ...

    • Human Factors in Streaming Data Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Visualization 

      Dasgupta, Aritra; Arendt, Dustin L.; Franklin, Lyndsey R.; Wong, Pak Chung; Cook, Kristin A. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Real‐world systems change continuously. In domains such as traffic monitoring or cyber security, such changes occur within short time scales. This results in a streaming data problem and leads to unique challenges for the ...

    • Improved Corners with Multi‐Channel Signed Distance Fields 

      Chlumský, V.; Sloup, J.; Šimeček, I. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      We propose an extension to the state‐of‐the‐art text rendering technique based on sampling a 2D signed distance field from a texture. This extension significantly improves the visual quality of sharp corners, which is the ...

    • A Visualization Framework and User Studies for Overloaded Orthogonal Drawings 

      Didimo, Walter; Kornaropoulos, Evgenios M.; Montecchiani, Fabrizio; Tollis, Ioannis G. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Overloaded orthogonal drawing (OOD) is a recent graph visualization style specifically conceived for directed graphs. It merges the advantages of some popular drawing conventions like layered drawings and orthogonal drawings, ...

    • Tree Growth Modelling Constrained by Growth Equations 

      Yi, Lei; Li, Hongjun; Guo, Jianwei; Deussen, Oliver; Zhang, Xiaopeng (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Modelling and simulation of tree growth that is faithful to the living environment and numerically consistent to botanic knowledge are important topics for realistic modelling in computer graphics. The realism factors ...

    • Enhancing the Realism of Sketch and Painted Portraits With Adaptable Patches 

      Lee, Yin‐Hsuan; Chang, Yu‐Kai; Chang, Yu‐Lun; Lin, I‐Chen; Wang, Yu‐Shuen; Lin, Wen‐Chieh (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Realizing unrealistic faces is a complicated task that requires a rich imagination and comprehension of facial structures. When face matching, warping or stitching techniques are applied, existing methods are generally ...

    • Guidelines for Quantitative Evaluation of Medical Visualizations on the Example of 3D Aneurysm Surface Comparisons 

      Saalfeld, P.; Luz, M.; Berg, P.; Preim, B.; Saalfeld, S. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Medical visualizations are highly adapted to a specific medical application scenario. Therefore, many researchers conduct qualitative evaluations with a low number of physicians or medical experts to assess the benefits ...

    • CLUST: Simulating Realistic Crowd Behaviour by Mining Pattern from Crowd Videos 

      Zhao, M.; Cai, W.; Turner, S. J. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      In this paper, we present a data‐driven approach to simulate realistic locomotion of virtual pedestrians. We focus on simulating low‐level pedestrians' motion, where a pedestrian's motion is mainly affected by other ...

    • Realistic Ultrasound Simulation of Complex Surface Models Using Interactive Monte‐Carlo Path Tracing 

      Mattausch, Oliver; Makhinya, Maxim; Goksel, Orcun (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Ray‐based simulations have been shown to generate impressively realistic ultrasound images in interactive frame rates. Recent efforts used GPU‐based surface raytracing to simulate complex ultrasound interactions such as ...

    • On the Stability of Functional Maps and Shape Difference Operators 

      Huang, R.; Chazal, F.; Ovsjanikov, M. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      In this paper, we provide stability guarantees for two frameworks that are based on the notion of functional maps—the framework of shape difference operators and the one of analyzing and visualizing the deformations between ...