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EuroVis	2,006	Visualizing the Phonon Map	10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/291-298	In this work we present several visualization approaches for analyzing acoustic behavior inside a room. Our methods are based on the results of the phonon tracing algorithm. For a simulated phonon map we examine the influence of the room surfaces on the wave fronts during their propagation from the sound source. Our vi...	false	false	[ "Eduard Deines", "Frank Michel 0001", "Martin Bertram 0001", "Hans Hagen", "Gregory M. Nielson" ]	[]	[]	[]
EuroVis	2,006	Volume Composition Using Eye Tracking Data	10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/115-122	This paper presents a method to automate rendering parameter selection, simplifying tedious user interaction and improving the usability of visualization systems. Our approach acquires regions-of-interest for a dataset with an eye tracker and simple user interaction. Based on this importance information, we then automa...	false	false	[ "Aidong Lu", "Ross Maciejewski", "David S. Ebert" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	2,006	A fisheye follow-up: further reflections on focus + context	10.1145/1124772.1124921	Information worlds continue to grow, posing daunting challenges for interfaces. This paper tries to increase our understanding of approaches to the problem, building on the Generalized Fisheye View framework. Three issues are discussed. First a number of existing techniques are unified by the commonality of what they s...	false	false	[ "George W. Furnas" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	2,006	Feeling what you hear: tactile feedback for navigation of audio graphs	10.1145/1124772.1124941	Access to digitally stored numerical data is currently very limited for sight impaired people. Graphs and visualizations are often used to analyze relationships between numerical data, but the current methods of accessing them are highly visually mediated. Representing data using audio feedback is a common method of ma...	false	false	[ "Steven A. Wall", "Stephen A. Brewster" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	2,006	groupTime: preference based group scheduling	10.1145/1124772.1124929	As our business, academic, and personal lives continue to move at an ever-faster pace, finding times for busy people to meet has become an art. One of the most perplexing challenges facing groupware is effective asynchronous group scheduling (GS). This paper presents a lightweight interaction model for GS that can exte...	false	false	[ "Mike Brzozowski", "Kendra Carattini", "Scott R. Klemmer", "Patrick Mihelich", "Jiang Hu", "Andrew Y. Ng" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	2,006	GUESS: a language and interface for graph exploration	10.1145/1124772.1124889	As graph models are applied to more widely varying fields, researchers struggle with tools for exploring and analyzing these structures. We describe GUESS, a novel system for graph exploration that combines an interpreted language with a graphical front end that allows researchers to rapidly prototype and deploy new vi...	false	false	[ "Eytan Adar" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	2,006	Keepin' it real: pushing the desktop metaphor with physics, piles and the pen	10.1145/1124772.1124965	We explore making virtual desktops behave in a more physically realistic manner by adding physics simulation and using piling instead of filing as the fundamental organizational structure. Objects can be casually dragged and tossed around, influenced by physical characteristics such as friction and mass, much like we w...	false	false	[ "Anand Agarawala", "Ravin Balakrishnan" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	2,006	Minimap: a web page visualization method for mobile phones	10.1145/1124772.1124779	The Web has become available even on mobile phones, but the current methods to view large pages on small screens have not been highly usable. Current mobile phone browsers reformat Web pages to a single column that fits the screen width. Because not all content is comprehensible in this format, browsers provide a secon...	false	false	[ "Virpi Roto", "Andrei Popescu 0003", "Antti Koivisto", "Elina Vartiainen" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	2,006	Sashay: designing for wonderment	10.1145/1124772.1124901	No longer confined to our offices, schools, and homes, technology is expanding at an astonishing rate across our everyday public urban landscapes. From the visible (mobile phones, laptops, and blackberries) to the invisible (GPS, WiFi, GSM, and EVDO), we find the full spectrum of digital technologies transforming nearl...	false	false	[ "Eric Paulos", "Chris Beckmann" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	2,006	Visual exploration of multivariate graphs	10.1145/1124772.1124891	This paper introduces PivotGraph, a software tool that uses a new technique for visualizing and analyzing graph structures. The technique is designed specifically for graphs that are "multivariate," i.e., where each node is associated with several attributes. Unlike visualizations which emphasize global graph topology,...	false	false	[ "Martin Wattenberg" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	2,006	Visualization of large hierarchical data by circle packing	10.1145/1124772.1124851	In this paper a novel approach is described for tree visualization using nested circles. The brother nodes at the same level are represented by externally tangent circles; the tree nodes at different levels are displayed by using 2D nested circles or 3D nested cylinders. A new layout algorithm for tree structure is des...	false	false	[ "Weixin Wang", "Henry (Hui) Wang", "Guozhong Dai", "Hongan Wang" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	2,006	Visualizing email content: portraying relationships from conversational histories	10.1145/1124772.1124919	We present Themail, a visualization that portrays relationships using the interaction histories preserved in email archives. Using the content of exchanged messages, it shows the words that characterize one's correspondence with an individual and how they change over the period of the relationship.This paper describes ...	false	false	[ "Fernanda B. Viégas", "Scott A. Golder", "Judith S. Donath" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	2D asymmetric tensor analysis	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532770	Analysis of degenerate tensors is a fundamental step in finding the topological structures and separatrices in tensor fields. Previous work in this area have been limited to analyzing symmetric second order tensor fields. In this paper, we extend the topological analysis to 2D general (asymmetric) second order tensor f...	false	false	[ "Xiaoqiang Zheng", "Alex T. Pang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	A contract based system for large data visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532795	VisIt is a richly featured visualization tool that is used to visualize some of the largest simulations ever run. The scale of these simulations requires that optimizations are incorporated into every operation VisIt performs. But the set of applicable optimizations that VisIt can perform is dependent on the types of o...	false	false	[ "Hank Childs", "Eric Brugger", "Kathleen S. Bonnell", "Jeremy S. Meredith", "Mark C. Miller", "Brad Whitlock", "Nelson L. Max" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	A feature-driven approach to locating optimal viewpoints for volume visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532834	Optimal viewpoint selection is an important task because it considerably influences the amount of information contained in the 2D projected images of 3D objects, and thus dominates their first impressions from a psychological point of view. Although several methods have been proposed that calculate the optimal position...	false	false	[ "Shigeo Takahashi", "Issei Fujishiro", "Yuriko Takeshima", "Tomoyuki Nishita" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	A handheld flexible display system	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532846	A new close range virtual reality system is introduced that allows intuitive and immersive user interaction with computer generated objects. A projector with a special spherical lens is combined with a flexible, tracked rear projection screen that users hold in their hands. Unlike normal projectors, the spherical lens ...	false	false	[ "Jonathan Konieczny", "Clement Shimizu", "Gary W. Meyer", "D'nardo Colucci" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	A shader-based parallel rendering framework	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532787	Existing parallel or remote rendering solutions rely on communicating pixels, OpenGL commands, scene-graph changes or application-specific data. We propose an intermediate solution based on a set of independent graphics primitives that use hardware shaders to specify their visual appearance. Compared to an OpenGL based...	false	false	[ "Jérémie Allard", "Bruno Raffin" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Batched multi triangulation	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532797	The multi triangulation framework (MT) is a very general approach for managing adaptive resolution in triangle meshes. The key idea is arranging mesh fragments at different resolution in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) which encodes the dependencies between fragments, thereby encompassing a wide class of multiresolution...	false	false	[ "Paolo Cignoni", "Fabio Ganovelli", "Enrico Gobbetti", "Fabio Marton", "Federico Ponchio", "Roberto Scopigno" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Build-by-number: rearranging the real world to visualize novel architectural spaces	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532789	We present build-by-number, a technique for quickly designing architectural structures that can be rendered photorealistically at interactive rates. We combine image-based capturing and rendering with procedural modeling techniques to allow the creation of novel structures in the style of real-world structures. Startin...	false	false	[ "Daniel R. Bekins", "Daniel G. Aliaga" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	COTS cluster-based sort-last rendering: performance evaluation and pipelined implementation	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532785	Sort-last parallel rendering is an efficient technique to visualize huge datasets on COTS clusters. The dataset is subdivided and distributed across the cluster nodes. For every frame, each node renders a full resolution image of its data using its local GPU, and the images are composited together using a parallel imag...	false	false	[ "Xavier Cavin", "Christophe Mion", "Alain Filbois" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Curve-skeleton applications	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532783	Curve-skeletons are a 1D subset of the medial surface of a 3D object and are useful for many visualization tasks including virtual navigation, reduced-model formulation, visualization improvement, mesh repair, animation, etc. There are many algorithms in the literature describing extraction methodologies for different ...	false	false	[ "Nicu D. Cornea", "Deborah Silver", "Patrick Min" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Dataset traversal with motion-controlled transfer functions	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532817	In this paper, we describe a methodology and implementation for interactive dataset traversal using motion-controlled transfer functions. Dataset traversal here refers lo the process of translating a transfer function along a specific path. In scientific visualization, it is often necessary to manipulate transfer funct...	false	false	[ "Carlos D. Correa", "Deborah Silver" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Differential protein expression analysis via liquid-chromatography/mass-spectrometry data visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532828	Differential protein expression analysis is one of the main challenges in proteomics. It denotes the search for proteins, whose encoding genes are differentially expressed under a given experimental setup. An important task in this context is to identify the differentially expressed proteins or, more generally, all pro...	false	false	[ "Lars Linsen", "Julia Löcherbach", "Matthias Berth", "Jörg Bernhardt", "Dörte Becher" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Distributed data management for large volume visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532794	We propose a distributed data management scheme for large data visualization that emphasizes efficient data sharing and access. To minimize data access time and support users with a variety of local computing capabilities, we introduce an adaptive data selection method based on an "enhanced time-space partitioning" (ET...	false	false	[ "Jinzhu Gao", "Jian Huang 0007", "C. Ryan Johnson", "Scott Atchley", "James Arthur Kohl" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Effectively visualizing large networks through sampling	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532819	We study the problem of visualizing large networks and develop techniques for effectively abstracting a network and reducing the size to a level that can be clearly viewed. Our size reduction techniques are based on sampling, where only a sample instead of the full network is visualized. We propose a randomized notion ...	false	false	[ "Davood Rafiei", "Stephen Curial" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Evaluation of fiber clustering methods for diffusion tensor imaging	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532779	Fiber tracking is a standard approach for the visualization of the results of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). If fibers are reconstructed and visualized individually through the complete white matter, the display gets easily cluttered making it difficult to get insight in the data. Various clustering techniques have be...	false	false	[ "Bart Moberts", "Anna Vilanova", "Jarke J. van Wijk" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Evolutionary morphing	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532826	We introduce a technique to visualize the gradual evolutionary change of the shapes of living things as a morph between known three-dimensional shapes. Given geometric computer models of anatomical shapes for some collection of specimens - here the skulls of the some of the extant members of a family of monkeys - an ev...	false	false	[ "David F. Wiley", "Nina Amenta", "Dan A. Alcantara", "Deboshmita Ghosh", "Yong Joo Kil", "Eric Delson", "Will Harcourt-Smith", "Katherine St. John", "F. James Rohlf", "Bernd Hamann" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Example-based volume illustrations	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532854	Scientific illustrations use accepted conventions and methodologies to effectively convey object properties and improve our understanding. We present a method to illustrate volume datasets by emulating example illustrations. As with technical illustrations, our volume illustrations more clearly delineate objects, enric...	false	false	[ "Aidong Lu", "David S. Ebert" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Exploiting frame-to-frame coherence for accelerating high-quality volume raycasting on graphics hardware	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532799	GPU-based raycasting offers an interesting alternative to conventional slice-based volume rendering due to the inherent flexibility and the high quality of the generated images. Recent advances in graphics hardware allow for the ray traversal and volume sampling to be executed on a per-fragment level completely on the ...	false	false	[ "Thomas Klein", "Magnus Strengert", "Simon Stegmaier", "Thomas Ertl" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Exploring 2D tensor fields using stress nets	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532771	In this article we describe stress nets, a technique for exploring 2D tensor fields. Our method allows a user to examine simultaneously the tensors' eigenvectors (both major and minor) as well as scalar-valued tensor invariants. By avoiding noise-advection techniques, we are able to display both principal directions of...	false	false	[ "Andrew T. Wilson", "Rebecca M. Brannon" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Extracting higher order critical points and topological simplification of 3D vector fields	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532842	This paper presents an approach to extracting and classifying higher order critical points of 3D vector fields. To do so, we place a closed convex surface s around the area of interest. Then we show that the complete 3D classification of a critical point into areas of different flow behavior is equivalent to extracting...	false	false	[ "Tino Weinkauf", "Holger Theisel", "Kuangyu Shi", "Hans-Christian Hege", "Hans-Peter Seidel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Extraction of parallel vector surfaces in 3D time-dependent fields and application to vortex core line tracking	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532851	We introduce an approach to tracking vortex core lines in time-dependent 3D flow fields which are defined by the parallel vectors approach. They build surface structures in the 4D space-time domain. To extract them, we introduce two 4D vector fields which act as feature flow fields, i.e., their integration gives the vo...	false	false	[ "Holger Theisel", "Jan Sahner", "Tino Weinkauf", "Hans-Christian Hege", "Hans-Peter Seidel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Eyegaze analysis of displays with combined 2D and 3D views	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532837	Displays combining both 2D and 3D views have been shown to support higher performance on certain visualization tasks. However, it is not clear how best to arrange a combination of 2D and 3D views spatially in a display. In this study, we analyzed the eyegaze strategies of participants using two arrangements of 2D and 3...	false	false	[ "Melanie Tory", "M. Stella Atkins", "Arthur E. Kirkpatrick", "Marios Nicolaou", "Guang-Zhong Yang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Eyelet particle tracing - steady visualization of unsteady flow	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532848	It is a challenging task to visualize the behavior of time-dependent 3D vector fields. Most of the time an overview of unsteady fields is provided via animations, but, unfortunately, animations provide only transient impressions of momentary flow. In this paper we present two approaches to visualize time varying fields...	false	false	[ "Alexander Wiebel", "Gerik Scheuermann" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Farthest point seeding for efficient placement of streamlines	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532832	We propose a novel algorithm for placement of streamlines from two-dimensional steady vector or direction fields. Our method consists of placing one streamline at a time by numerical integration starting at the furthest away from all previously placed streamlines. Such a farthest point seeding strategy leads to high qu...	false	false	[ "Abdelkrim Mebarki", "Pierre Alliez", "Olivier Devillers" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Fast and reproducible fiber bundle selection in DTI visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532778	Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is an MRI-based technique for quantifying water diffusion in living tissue. In the white matter of the brain, water diffuses more rapidly along the neuronal axons than in the perpendicular direction. By exploiting this phenomenon, DTI can be used to determine trajectories of fiber bundles...	false	false	[ "Jorik Blaas", "Charl P. Botha", "Bart Peters", "Frans Vos", "Frits H. Post" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Fast visualization by shear-warp on quadratic super-spline models using wavelet data decompositions	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532816	We develop the first approach Tor interactive volume visualization based on a sophisticated rendering method of shear-warp type, wavelet data encoding techniques, and a trivariate spline model, which has been introduced recently. As a first step of our algorithm, we apply standard wavelet expansions to represent and de...	false	false	[ "Gregor Schlosser", "Jürgen Hesser", "Frank Zeilfelder", "Christian Rössl", "Reinhard Männer", "Günther Nürnberger", "Hans-Peter Seidel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Framework for visualizing higher-order basis functions	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532776	Techniques in numerical simulation such as the finite element method depend on basis functions for approximating the geometry and variation of the solution over discrete regions of a domain. Existing visualization systems can visualize these basis functions if they are linear, or for a small set of simple non-linear ba...	false	false	[ "William J. Schroeder", "François Bertel", "Mathieu Malaterre", "David C. Thompson 0001", "Philippe P. Pébay", "Robert M. O'Bara", "Saurabh Tendulkar" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Hardware-accelerated 3D visualization of mass spectrometry data	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532827	We present a system for three-dimensional visualization of complex liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LCMS) data. Every LCMS data point has three attributes: time, mass, and intensity. Instead of the traditional visualization of two-dimensional subsets of the data, we visualize it as a height field or terrain in ...	false	false	[ "Jose De Corral", "Hanspeter Pfister" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Hardware-accelerated simulated radiography	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532815	We present the application of hardware accelerated volume rendering algorithms to the simulation of radiographs as an aid to scientists designing experiments, validating simulation codes, and understanding experimental data. The techniques presented take advantage of 32-bit floating point texture capabilities to obtain...	false	false	[ "Daniel E. Laney", "Steven P. Callahan", "Nelson L. Max", "Cláudio T. Silva", "Steven Langer", "Randall Frank" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	High dynamic range volume visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532812	High resolution volumes require high precision compositing to preserve detailed structures. This is even more desirable for volumes with high dynamic range values. After the high precision intermediate image has been computed, simply rounding up pixel values to regular display scales loses the computed details. In this...	false	false	[ "Xiaoru Yuan", "Minh X. Nguyen", "Baoquan Chen", "David H. Porter" ]	[ "BA" ]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	High performance volume splatting for visualization of neurovascular data	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532805	A new technique is presented to increase the performance of volume splatting by using hardware accelerated point sprites. This allows creating screen aligned elliptical splats for high quality volume splatting at very low cost on the GPU. Only one vertex per splat is stored on the graphics card. GPU generated point spr...	false	false	[ "Fernando Vega Higuera", "Peter Hastreiter", "Rudolf Fahlbusch", "Günther Greiner" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	HOT-lines: tracking lines in higher order tensor fields	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532773	Tensors occur in many areas of science and engineering. Especially, they are used to describe charge, mass and energy transport (i.e. electrical conductivity tensor, diffusion tensor, thermal conduction tensor resp.) If the locale transport pattern is complicated, usual second order tensor representation is not suffici...	false	false	[ "Mario Hlawitschka", "Gerik Scheuermann" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Illuminated lines revisited	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532772	For the rendering of vector and tensor fields, several texture-based volumetric rendering methods were presented in recent years. While they have indisputable merits, the classical vertex-based rendering of integral curves has the advantage of better zooming capabilities as it is not bound to a fixed resolution. It has...	false	false	[ "Ovidio Mallo", "Ronald Peikert", "Christian Sigg", "Filip Sadlo" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Illustration and photography inspired visualization of flows and volumes	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532858	Understanding and analyzing complex volumetrically varying data is a difficult problem. Many computational visualization techniques have had only limited success in succinctly portraying the structure of three-dimensional turbulent flow. Motivated by both the extensive history and success of illustration and photograph...	false	false	[ "Nikolai A. Svakhine", "Yun Jang", "David S. Ebert", "Kelly P. Gaither" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Illustration-inspired techniques for visualizing time-varying data	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532857	Traditionally, time-varying data has been visualized using snapshots of the individual time steps or an animation of the snapshots shown in a sequential manner. For larger datasets with many time-varying features, animation can be limited in its use, as an observer can only track a limited number of features over the l...	false	false	[ "Alark Joshi", "Penny Rheingans" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Illustrative display of hidden iso-surface structures	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532855	Indirect volume rendering is a widespread method for the display of volume datasets. It is based on the extraction of polygonal iso-surfaces from volumetric data, which are then rendered using conventional rasterization methods. Whereas this rendering approach is fast and relatively easy to implement, it cannot easily ...	false	false	[ "Jan Fischer", "Dirk Bartz", "Wolfgang Straßer" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Interactive rendering of large unstructured grids using dynamic level-of-detail	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532796	We describe a new dynamic level-of-detail (LOD) technique that allows real-time rendering of large tetrahedral meshes. Unlike approaches that require hierarchies of tetrahedra, our approach uses a subset of the faces that compose the mesh. No connectivity is used for these faces so our technique eliminates the need for...	false	false	[ "Steven P. Callahan", "João Luiz Dihl Comba", "Peter Shirley", "Cláudio T. Silva" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Interactive visual analysis and exploration of injection systems simulations	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532821	Simulations often generate large amounts of data that require use of SciVis techniques for effective exploration of simulation results. In some cases, like 1D theory of fluid dynamics, conventional SciVis techniques are not very useful. One such example is a simulation of injection systems that is becoming more and mor...	false	false	[ "Kresimir Matkovic", "Mario Jelovic", "Josip Juric", "Zoltan Konyha", "Denis Gracanin" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Interpolation and visualization for advected scalar fields	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532849	Doppler radars are useful facilities for weather forecasting. The data sampled by using Doppler radars are used to measure the distributions and densities of rain drops, snow crystals, hail stones, or even insects in the atmosphere. In this paper, we propose to build up a graphics-based software system for visualizing ...	false	false	[ "Shyh-Kuang Ueng", "Sheng-Chuan Wang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Marching diamonds for unstructured meshes	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532825	We present a higher-order approach to the extraction of isosurfaces from unstructured meshes. Existing methods use linear interpolation along each mesh edge to find isosurface intersections. In contrast, our method determines intersections by performing barycentric interpolation over diamonds formed by the tetrahedra i...	false	false	[ "John C. Anderson", "Janine Bennett", "Kenneth I. Joy" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Multimodal exploration of the fourth dimension	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532804	We present a multimodal paradigm for exploring topological surfaces embedded in four dimensions; we exploit haptic methods in particular to overcome the intrinsic limitations of 3D graphics images and 3D physical models. The basic problem is that, just as 2D shadows of 3D curves lose structure where lines cross, 3D gra...	false	false	[ "Andrew J. Hanson", "Hui Zhang 0006" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	On the optimization of visualizations of complex phenomena	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532782	The problem of perceptually optimizing complex visualizations is a difficult one, involving perceptual as well as aesthetic issues. In our experience, controlled experiments are quite limited in their ability to uncover interrelationships among visualization parameters, and thus may not be the most useful way to develo...	false	false	[ "Donald H. House", "Alethea Bair", "Colin Ware" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	OpenGL multipipe SDK: a toolkit for scalable parallel rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532786	We describe OpenGL multipipe SDK (MPK), a toolkit for scalable parallel rendering based on OpenGL. MPK provides a uniform application programming interface (API) to manage scalable graphics applications across many different graphics subsystems. MPK-based applications run seamlessly from single-processor, single-pipe d...	false	false	[ "Praveen Bhaniramka", "Philippe C. D. Robert", "Stefan Eilemann" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Opening the black box - data driven visualization of neural networks	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532820	Artificial neural networks are computer software or hardware models inspired by the structure and behavior of neurons in the human nervous system. As a powerful learning tool, increasingly neural networks have been adopted by many large-scale information processing applications but there is no a set of well defined cri...	false	false	[ "Fan-Yin Tzeng", "Kwan-Liu Ma" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Opening the can of worms: an exploration tool for vortical flows	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532830	Gaining a comprehensive understanding of turbulent flows still poses one of the great challenges in fluid dynamics. A well-established approach to advance this research is the analysis of the vortex structures contained in the flow. In order to be able to perform this analysis efficiently, supporting visualization tool...	false	false	[ "Simon Stegmaier", "Ulrich Rist", "Thomas Ertl" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Particle and texture based spatiotemporal visualization of time-dependent vector fields	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532852	We propose a hybrid particle and texture based approach for the visualization of time-dependent vector fields. The underlying space-time framework builds a dense vector field representation in a two-step process: 1) particle-based forward integration of trajectories in spacetime for temporal coherence, and 2) texture-b...	false	false	[ "Daniel Weiskopf", "Frederik Schramm", "Gordon Erlebacher", "Thomas Ertl" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Phonon tracing for auralization and visualization of sound	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532790	We present a new particle tracing approach for the simulation of mid- and high-frequency sound. Inspired by the photorealism obtained by methods like photon mapping, we develop a similar method for the physical simulation of sound within rooms. For given source and listener positions, our method computes a finite-respo...	false	false	[ "Martin Hering-Bertram", "Eduard Deines", "Jan Mohring", "Jevgenijs Jegorovs", "Hans Hagen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Prefiltered Gaussian reconstruction for high-quality rendering of volumetric data sampled on a body-centered cubic grid	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532810	In this paper a novel high-quality reconstruction scheme is presented. Although our method is mainly proposed to reconstruct volumetric data sampled on an optimal body-centered cubic (BCC) grid, it can be easily adapted lo the conventional regular rectilinear grid as well. The reconstruction process is decomposed into ...	false	false	[ "Balázs Csébfalvi" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Profile Flags: a novel metaphor for probing of T₂ maps	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532847	This paper describes a tool for the visualization of T/sub 2/ maps of knee cartilage. Given the anatomical scan, and the T/sub 2/ map of the cartilage, we combine the information on the shape and the quality of the cartilage in a single image. The Profile Flag is an intuitive 3D glyph for probing and annotating of the ...	false	false	[ "Matej Mlejnek", "Pierre Ermes", "Anna Vilanova", "Rob van der Rijt", "Harrie van den Bosch", "Frans A. Gerritsen", "M. Eduard Gröller" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Quality mesh generation for molecular skin surfaces using restricted union of balls	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532822	Quality surface meshes for molecular models are desirable in the studies of protein shapes and functionalities. However, there is still no robust software that is capable to generate such meshes with good quality. In this paper, we present a Delaunay-based surface triangulation algorithm generating quality surface mesh...	false	false	[ "Ho-Lun Cheng", "Xinwei Shi" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Query-driven visualization of large data sets	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532792	We present a practical and general-purpose approach to large and complex visual data analysis where visualization processing, rendering and subsequent human interpretation is constrained to the subset of data deemed interesting by the user. In many scientific data analysis applications, "interesting" data can be define...	false	false	[ "Kurt Stockinger", "John Shalf", "Kesheng Wu", "E. Wes Bethel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Reconstructing manifold and non-manifold surfaces from point clouds	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532824	This paper presents a novel approach for surface reconstruction from point clouds. The proposed technique is general in the sense that it naturally handles both manifold and non-manifold surfaces, providing a consistent way for reconstructing closed surfaces as well as surfaces with boundaries. It is also robust in the...	false	false	[ "Jianning Wang", "Manuel Menezes de Oliveira Neto", "Arie E. Kaufman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Reflection nebula visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532803	Stars form in dense clouds of interstellar gas and dust. The residual dust surrounding a young star scatters and diffuses its light, making the star's "cocoon" of dust observable from Earth. The resulting structures, called reflection nebulae, are commonly very colorful in appearance due to wavelength-dependent effects...	false	false	[ "Marcus A. Magnor", "Kristian Hildebrand", "Andrei Lintu", "Andrew J. Hanson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Rendering tetrahedral meshes with higher-order attenuation functions for digital radiograph reconstruction	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532809	This paper presents a novel method for computing simulated x-ray images, or DRRs (digitally reconstructed radiographs), of tetrahedral meshes with higher-order attenuation functions. DRRs are commonly used in computer assisted surgery (CAS), with the attenuation function consisting of a voxelized CT study, which is vie...	false	false	[ "Ofri Sadowsky", "Jonathan D. Cohen 0001", "Russell H. Taylor" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Scale-invariant volume rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532808	As standard volume rendering is based on an integral in physical space (or "coordinate space"), it is inherently dependent on the scaling of this space. Although this dependency is appropriate for the realistic rendering of semitransparent volumetric objects, it has several unpleasant consequences for volume visualizat...	false	false	[ "Martin Kraus" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Sort-middle multi-projector immediate-mode rendering in Chromium	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532784	Traditionally, sort-middle is a technique that has been difficult to attain on clusters because of the tight coupling of geometry and rasterization processes on commodity graphics hardware. In this paper, we describe the implementation of a new sort-middle approach for performing immediate-mode rendering in Chromium. T...	false	false	[ "Jorge Luis Williams", "Robert E. Hiromoto" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Statistically quantitative volume visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532807	Visualization users are increasingly in need of techniques for assessing quantitative uncertainty and error in the images produced. Statistical segmentation algorithms compute these quantitative results, yet volume rendering tools typically produce only qualitative imagery via transfer function-based classification. Th...	false	false	[ "Joe Michael Kniss", "Robert L. Van Uitert Jr.", "Abraham Stephens", "Guo-Shi Li", "Tolga Tasdizen", "Charles D. Hansen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Strategy for seeding 3D streamlines	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532831	This paper presents a strategy for seeding streamlines in 3D flow fields. Its main goal is to capture the essential flow patterns and to provide sufficient coverage in the field while reducing clutter. First, critical points of the flow field are extracted to identify regions with important flow patterns that need to b...	false	false	[ "Xiaohong Ye", "David L. Kao", "Alex T. Pang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Stream-processing points	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532801	With the growing size of captured 3D models it has become increasingly important to provide basic efficient processing methods for large unorganized raw surface-sample point data sets. In this paper we introduce a novel stream-based (and out-of-core) point processing framework. The proposed approach processes points in...	false	false	[ "Renato Pajarola" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Streaming meshes	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532800	Recent years have seen an immense increase in the complexity of geometric data sets. Today's gigabyte-sized polygon models can no longer be completely loaded into the main memory of common desktop PCs. Unfortunately, current mesh formats, which were designed years ago when meshes were orders of magnitudes smaller, do n...	false	false	[ "Martin Isenburg", "Peter Lindstrom 0001" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Surface reconstruction via contour metamorphosis: an Eulerian approach with Lagrangian particle tracking	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532823	We present a robust method for 3D reconstruction of closed surfaces from sparsely sampled parallel contours. A solution to this problem is especially important for medical segmentation, where manual contouring of 2D imaging scans is still extensively used. Our proposed method is based on a morphing process applied to n...	false	false	[ "Ola Nilsson", "David E. Breen", "Ken Museth" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Teniae coli guided navigation and registration for virtual colonoscopy	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532806	We present a new method for guiding virtual colonoscopic navigation and registration by using teniae coli as anatomical landmarks. As most existing protocols require a patient to be scanned in both supine and prone positions to increase sensitivity in detecting colonic polyps, reference and registration between scans a...	false	false	[ "Adam Huang", "Dave Roy", "Marek Franaszek", "Ronald M. Summers" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Texture-based visualization of uncertainty in flow fields	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532853	In this paper, we present two novel texture-based techniques to visualize uncertainty in time-dependent 2D flow fields. Both methods use semi-Lagrangian texture advection to show flow direction by streaklines and convey uncertainty by blurring these streaklines. The first approach applies a cross advection perpendicula...	false	false	[ "Ralf P. Botchen", "Daniel Weiskopf", "Thomas Ertl" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	The application of GPU particle tracing to diffusion tensor field visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532780	In this paper we introduce GPU particle tracing for the visualization of 3D diffusion tensor fields. For about half a million particles, reconstruction of diffusion directions from the tensor field, time integration and rendering can be done at interactive rates. Different visualization options like oriented particles ...	false	false	[ "Polina Kondratieva", "Jens H. Krüger", "Rüdiger Westermann" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	The magic volume lens: an interactive focus+context technique for volume rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532818	The size and resolution of volume datasets in science and medicine are increasing at a rate much greater than the resolution of the screens used to view them. This limits the amount of data that can be viewed simultaneously, potentially leading to a loss of overall context of the data when the user views or zooms into ...	false	false	[ "Lujin Wang", "Ye Zhao 0004", "Klaus Mueller 0001", "Arie E. Kaufman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	The software interface to the 3D-force microscope	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532829	We have developed a real-time experiment-control and data-display system for a novel microscope, the 3D-force microscope (3DFM), which is designed for nanometer-scale and nanoNewton-force biophysical experiments. The 3DFM software suite synthesizes the several data sources from the 3DFM into a coherent view and provide...	false	false	[ "David Marshburn", "Chris Weigle", "Benjamin G. Wilde", "Russell M. Taylor II", "Kalpit Desai", "J. K. Fisher", "Jeremy Cribb", "E. Timothy O'Brien", "Richard Superfine" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	The value of visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532781	The field of visualization is getting mature. Many problems have been solved, and new directions are sought for. In order to make good choices, an understanding of the purpose and meaning of visualization is needed. Especially, it would be nice if we could assess what a good visualization is. In this paper an attempt i...	false	false	[ "Jarke J. van Wijk" ]	[ "TT", "BP" ]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	The visible radio: process visualization of a software-defined radio	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532791	In this case study, a data-oriented approach is used to visualize a complex digital signal processing pipeline. The pipeline implements a frequency modulated (FM) software-defined radio (SDR). SDR is an emerging technology where portions of the radio hardware, such as filtering and modulation, are replaced by software ...	false	false	[ "Matthew Hall", "Alex Betts", "Donna J. Cox", "David Pointer", "Volodymyr V. Kindratenko" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Topological structures of 3D tensor fields	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532841	Tensor topology is useful in providing a simplified and yet detailed representation of a tensor field. Recently the field of 3D tensor topology is advanced by the discovery that degenerate tensors usually form lines in their most basic configurations. These lines form the backbone for further topological analysis. A nu...	false	false	[ "Xiaoqiang Zheng", "Beresford N. Parlett", "Alex T. Pang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Topology-based simplification for feature extraction from 3D scalar fields	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532839	In this paper, we present a topological approach for simplifying continuous functions defined on volumetric domains. We introduce two atomic operations that remove pairs of critical points of the function and design a combinatorial algorithm that simplifies the Morse-Smale complex by repeated application of these opera...	false	false	[ "Attila Gyulassy", "Vijay Natarajan", "Valerio Pascucci", "Peer-Timo Bremer", "Bernd Hamann" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Topology-driven surface mappings with robust feature alignment	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532840	Topological concepts and techniques have been broadly applied in computer graphics and geometric modeling. However, the homotopy type of a mapping between two surfaces has not been addressed before. In this paper, we present a novel solution to the problem of computing continuous maps with different homotopy types betw...	false	false	[ "Christopher Carner", "Miao Jin", "Xianfeng Gu", "Hong Qin" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Understanding visualization through spatial ability differences	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532836	Little is known about the cognitive abilities which influence the comprehension of scientific and information visualizations and what properties of the visualization affect comprehension. Our goal in this paper is to understand what makes visualizations difficult. We address this goal by examining the spatial ability d...	false	false	[ "Maria C. Velez", "Deborah Silver", "Marilyn Tremaine" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	View selection for volume rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532833	In a visualization of a three-dimensional dataset, the insights gained are dependent on what is occluded and what is not. Suggestion of interesting viewpoints can improve both the speed and efficiency of data understanding. This paper presents a view selection method designed for volume rendering. It can be used to fin...	false	false	[ "Udeepta Bordoloi", "Han-Wei Shen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	View-dependent rendering of multiresolution texture-atlases	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532798	Real-time rendering of massively textured 3D scenes usually involves two major problems: Large numbers of texture switches are a well-known performance bottleneck and the set of simultaneously visible textures is limited by the graphics memory. This paper presents a level-of-detail texturing technique that overcomes bo...	false	false	[ "Henrik Buchholz", "Jürgen Döllner" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	VisTrails: enabling interactive multiple-view visualizations	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532788	VisTrails is a new system that enables interactive multiple-view visualizations by simplifying the creation and maintenance of visualization pipelines, and by optimizing their execution. It provides a general infrastructure that can be combined with existing visualization systems and libraries. A key component of VisTr...	false	false	[ "Louis Bavoil", "Steven P. Callahan", "Carlos Scheidegger", "Huy T. Vo", "Patricia Crossno", "Cláudio T. Silva", "Juliana Freire" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Visual analysis and exploration of fluid flow in a cooling jacket	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532850	We present a visual analysis and exploration of fluid flow through a cooling jacket. Engineers invest a large amount of time and serious effort to optimize the flow through this engine component because of its important role in transferring heat away from the engine block. In this study we examine the design goals that...	false	false	[ "Robert S. Laramee", "Christoph Garth", "Helmut Doleisch", "Jürgen Schneider", "Helwig Hauser", "Hans Hagen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Visualization in the Einstein Year 2005: a case study on explanatory and illustrative visualization of relativity and astrophysics	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532845	In this application paper, we report on over fifteen years of experience with relativistic and astrophysical visualization, which has been culminating in a substantial engagement for visualization in the Einstein Year 2005 - the 100/sup th/ anniversary of Einstein's publications on special relativity, the photoelectric...	false	false	[ "Daniel Weiskopf", "Marc Borchers", "Thomas Ertl", "Martin Falk", "Oliver Fechtig", "Regine Frank", "Frank Grave", "Andreas King", "Ute Kraus", "Thomas Müller 0005", "Hans-Peter Nollert", "Isabel Rica Mendez", "Hanns Ruder", "Corvin Zahn", "Michael Zatloukal", "Tobias Schafhitzel", "...	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Visualization of the genus of knots	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532843	The genus of a knot or link can be defined via Seifert surfaces. A Seifert surface of a knot or link is an oriented surface whose boundary coincides with that, knot or link. Schematic images of these surfaces are shown in every text book on knot theory, but from these it is hard to understand their shape and structure....	false	false	[ "Jarke J. van Wijk", "Arjeh M. Cohen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Visualization of time-dependent remote adaptive mesh refinement data	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532793	Analysis of phenomena that simultaneously occur on different spatial and temporal scales requires adaptive, hierarchical schemes to reduce computational and storage demands. Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) schemes support both refinement in space that results in a time-dependent grid topology, as well as refinement in t...	false	false	[ "Ralf Kähler", "Steffen Prohaska", "Andrei Hutanu", "Hans-Christian Hege" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Visualization of white matter tracts with wrapped streamlines	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532777	Diffusion tensor imaging is a magnetic resonance imaging method which has gained increasing importance in neuroscience and especially in neurosurgery. It acquires diffusion properties represented by a symmetric 2nd order tensor for each voxel in the gathered dataset. From the medical point of view, the data is of speci...	false	false	[ "Frank Enders", "Natascha Sauber", "Dorit Merhof", "Peter Hastreiter", "Christopher Nimsky", "Marc Stamminger" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Visualization with stylized line primitives	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532859	Line primitives are a very powerful visual attribute used for scientific visualization and in particular for 3D vector-field visualization. We extend the basic line primitives with additional visual attributes including color, line width, texture and orientation. To implement the visual attributes we represent the styl...	false	false	[ "Carsten Stoll", "Stefan Gumhold", "Hans-Peter Seidel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Visualizing data with motion	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532838	This paper describes an experimental study of three perceptual properties of motion: flicker, direction, and velocity. Our goal is to understand how to apply these properties to represent data in a visualization environment. Results from our experiments show that all three properties can encode multiple data values, bu...	false	false	[ "Daniel E. Huber", "Christopher G. Healey" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Visualizing intersecting surfaces with nested-surface techniques	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532835	This paper describes the adaptation and evaluation of existing nested-surface visualization techniques for the problem of displaying intersecting surfaces. For this work, we collaborated with a neurosurgeon who is comparing multiple tumor segmentations with the goal of increasing the segmentation accuracy and reliabili...	false	false	[ "Chris Weigle", "Russell M. Taylor II" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Visualizing tensor fields in geomechanics	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532774	The study of stress and strains in soils and structures (solids) help us gain a better understanding of events such as failure of bridges, dams and buildings, or accumulated stresses and strains in geological subduction zones that could trigger earthquakes and subsequently tsunamis. In such domains, the key feature of ...	false	false	[ "Alisa Neeman", "Boris Jeremic", "Alex T. Pang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Visualizing the tightening of knots	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532844	The study of physical models for knots has recently received much interest in the mathematics community. In this paper, we consider the ropelength model, which considers knots tied in an idealized rope. This model is interesting in pure mathematics, and has been applied to the study of a variety of problems in the natu...	false	false	[ "Jason Cantarella", "Michael Piatek", "Eric J. Rawdon" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	VolQD: direct volume rendering of multi-million atom quantum dot simulations	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532811	In this work we present a hardware-accelerated direct volume rendering system for visualizing multivariate wave functions in semiconducting quantum dot (QD) simulations. The simulation data contains the probability density values of multiple electron orbitals for up to tens of millions of atoms, computed by the NEMO3-D...	false	false	[ "Wei Qiao", "David S. Ebert", "Alireza Entezari", "Marek Korkusinski", "Gerhard Klimeck" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	Volume rendering of smoke propagation CFD data	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532813	The evacuation of buildings in the event of a fire requires careful planning of ventilation and evacuation routes during early architectural design stages. Different designs are evaluated by simulating smoke propagation using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Visibility plays a decisive role in finding the nearest fi...	false	false	[ "Oliver Staubli", "Christian Sigg", "Ronald Peikert", "Markus H. Gross", "Daniel Gubler" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	VolumeExplorer: roaming large volumes to couple visualization and data processing for oil and gas exploration	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532802	In this paper, we present a volume roaming system dedicated to oil and gas exploration. Our system combines probe-based volume rendering with data processing and computing. The daily oil production and the estimation of the world proven-reserves directly affect the barrel price and have a strong impact on the economy. ...	false	false	[ "Laurent Castanie", "Bruno Lévy 0001", "Fabien Bosquet" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	2,005	VolumeShop: an interactive system for direct volume illustration	10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532856	Illustrations play a major role in the education process. Whether used to teach a surgical or radiologic procedure, to illustrate normal or aberrant anatomy, or to explain the functioning of a technical device, illustration significantly impacts learning. Although many specimens are readily available as volumetric data...	false	false	[ "Stefan Bruckner", "M. Eduard Gröller" ]	[]	[]	[]

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