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    • Accelerated, High-Quality Refraction Computations for Volume Graphics 

      Li, Shengying; Mueller, Klaus (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      We present an efficient framework for the high-quality rendering of discretely sampled surface-based objects with refractive effects. This requires an accurate estimation of the refraction coefficients, paired with efficient ...
    • Volumetric Reconstruction, Compression and Rendering of Natural Phenomena from Multi-Video Data 

      Ahrenberg, Lukas; Ihrke, Ivo; Magnor, Marcus (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      Lately, new methods for the acquisition of time-varying, volumetric data for photo-realistic rendering of semitransparent, volumetric phenomena like fire and smoke have been developed. This paper presents a wavelet-coding ...
    • A Simplified Model for Inhomogeneous Subsurface Scattering 

      Sharp, Richard; Machiraju, Raghu (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      In recent years there has been considerable interest in modeling realistic subsurface light scattering in materials such as marble, human skin, or clouds. Many of these models provide a solution for the transport equation ...
    • Volume Rendering for High Dynamic Range Displays 

      Ghosh, Abhijeet; Trentacoste, Matthew; Heidrich, Wolfgang (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      Dynamic range restrictions of conventional displays limit the amount of detail that can be represented in volume rendering applications. However, high dynamic range displays with contrast ratios larger than 50;000 : 1 have ...
    • Scaffolding-based Segmentation of Coronary Vascular Structures 

      Bartz, Dirk; Lakare, Sarang (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      The coronary arteries are essential for the proper function of the human heart. However, they are generally difficult to segment in volume datasets separately from the other blood-filled cavities of the heart. The major ...
    • A Virtual Reality Toolkit for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Myocardial Infarctions 

      Ryan, John; O Sullivan, Carol; Bell, Christopher; Mulvihill, Niall (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      We have developed a software system that takes standard electrocardiogram (ECG) input and interprets this input along with user-defined and automatically defined markers to diagnose myocardial infarctions (MI). These ...
    • End-to-End Data Reduction and Hardware Accelerated Rendering Techniques for Visualizing Time-Varying Non-uniform Grid Volume Data 

      Akiba, Hiroshi; Ma, Kwan-Liu; Clyne, John (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      We present a systematic approach for direct volume rendering terascale-sized data that are time-varying, and possibly non-uniformly sampled, using only a single commodity graphics PC. Our method employs a data reduction ...
    • An Evaluation of Using Real-time Volumetric Display of 3D Ultrasound Data for Intracardiac Catheter Manipulation Tasks 

      Wang, Aaron S.; Narayan, Girish; Kao, David; Liang, David (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      The enthusiasm for novel, minimally invasive, catheter based intracardiac procedures has highlighted the need to provide accurate, real-time, anatomically based image guidance to decrease complications, improve precision, ...
    • Visualization of Time-Varying Volumetric Data using Differential Time-Histogram Table 

      Younesy, Hamid; Möller, Torsten; Carr, Hamish (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      We introduce a novel data structure called Differential Time-Histogram Table (DTHT) for visualization of timevarying scalar data. This data structure only stores voxels that are changing between time-steps or during transfer ...
    • A Multiresolution Volume Rendering Framework for Large-Scale Time-Varying Data Visualization 

      Wang, Chaoli; Gao, Jinzhu; Li, Liya; Shen, Han-Wei (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      We present a new parallel multiresolution volume rendering framework for large-scale time-varying data visualization using the wavelet-based time-space partitioning (WTSP) tree. Utilizing the wavelet transform, a largescale ...
    • An Interactive Volume Visualization System for Transient Flow Analysis 

      Rosa, Gabriel G.; Lum, Eric B.; Ma, Kwan-Liu; Ono, Kenji (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      This paper describes the design and performance of an interactive visualization system developed specifically for improved understanding of time-varying volume data from thermal flow simulations for vehicle cabin and ...
    • Volume CAD 

      Kase, K.; Teshima, Y.; Usami, S.; Ohmori, H.; Teodosiu, C.; Makinouchi, A. (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      With the transition of the most fundamental data in manufacturing from drawings to three-dimensional (3D) CAD (Computer Aided Design) data, we are now able to fabricate products with beautiful curved surfaces, for example, ...
    • A Volume Rendering Approach for Sea Surfaces Taking into Account Second Order Scattering Using Scattering Maps 

      Iwasaki, Kei; Dobashi, Yoshinori; Nishita, Tomoyuki (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      We present a fast volume rendering technique for sea surfaces taking into account second order scattering using graphics hardware. To generate realistic images of the sea surfaces, accurate simulation of light transport ...
    • Integrating Pre-Integration Into The Shear-Warp Algorithm 

      Schulze, J.P.; Kraus, M.; Lang, U.; Ertl, T. (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      The shear-warp volume rendering algorithm is one of the fastest algorithms for volume rendering, but it achieves this rendering speed only by sacrificing interpolation between the slices of the volume data. Unfortunately, ...
    • Hybrid Forward Resampling and Volume Rendering 

      Yuan, Xiaoru; Nguyen, Minh X.; Xu, Hui; Chen, Baoquan (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      The transforming and rendering of discrete objects, such as traditional images (with or without depths) and volumes, can be considered as resampling problem - objects are reconstructed, transformed, filtered, and finally ...
    • Accuracy-Based Sampling and Reconstruction with Adaptive Grid for Parallel Hierarchical Tetrahedrization 

      T.Tanaka, Hiromi; Takama, Yasufumi; Wakabayashi, Hiroki (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      Recent advances in volume scanning techniques have made the task of acquiring volume data of 3-D objects easier and more accurate. Since the quantity of such acquired data is generally very large, a volume model capable ...
    • Multiresolution Volume Simplification and Polygonization 

      Zhang, Nan; Kaufman, Arie (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      We propose a multiresolution volume simplification and polygonization algorithm. Traditionally, voxel-based algorithms lack the adaptive resolution support and consequently simplified volumes quickly lose sharp features ...
    • Cell Projection of Convex Polyhedra 

      Roettger, Stefan; Ertl, Thomas (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      Finite element methods commonly use unstructured grids as the computational domain. As a matter of fact, the volume visualization of these unstructured grids is a time consuming task. Here, the fastest known object order ...
    • Out-of-Core Encoding Of Large Tetrahedral Meshes 

      Ueng, Shyh-Kuang (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      In this paper, an out-of-core data compression method is presented to encode large Finite Element Analysis (FEA) meshes. The method is comprised with two stages. At the first stage, the input FEA mesh is divided into blocks, ...
    • Volumetric Ablation Rendering 

      Varadhan, Hari; Mueller, Klaus (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      In this paper, we propose a physically-based method for simulating the process of ablation on volumetric models. We demonstrate the visual effect of ablative processes, such as a beam of heat emitted from a blow torch or ...