NPU-based image compositing in a distributed visualization system

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 798-809

  Pugmire, David ^b   Monroe, Laura ^b   Davenport, Carolyn Connor ^a,b   DuBois, Andrew ^b   DuBois, David ^b   Poole, Stephen ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardware assisted image compositing; High performance computing; Image compositing; Network processing unit; Parallel rendering; PC clusters; Visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

HARDWARE-ASSISTED IMAGE COMPOSITING; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; IMAGE COMPOSITING; NETWORK PROCESSING UNIT; PARALLEL RENDERING; PC CLUSTERS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER NETWORK; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34447525670     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.1026     Document Type: Article

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