A unified information-theoretic framework for viewpoint selection and mesh saliency

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Feixas, Miquel ^a   Sbert, Mateu ^a   González, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information theory; Mesh saliency; Viewpoint selection; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

IMAGE-BASED MODELING; IMPORTANCE FACTORS; IN FIELDS; INFORMATION CHANNELS; MESH SALIENCY; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; OBJECT EXPLORATIONS; UNIFIED FRAMEWORKS; VIEW SELECTIONS; VIEWPOINT SELECTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOLUME VISUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA WAREHOUSES; INFORMATION THEORY; VISION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 62149119524     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1462055.1462056     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. ANDÚJAR, C, VÁZQUEZ, P. P., AND FAIRÉN, M. 2004. Way-finder: Guided tours through complex walkthrough models. Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2004) 23, 3, 499-508.
2. BLANZ, V., TARR, M., AND BÜ; LTHOPP, H. 1999. What object attributes determine canonical views? Perception 28, 575-599.
3. BORDOLOI, U. D. AND SHEN, H.-W. 2005. Viewpoint evaluation for volume rendering. In IEEE Visualization 2005. IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, 487-494.
4. BÜ;LTHOFF, H., EDELMAN, S., AND TARR, M. 1995. How are three-dimensional objects represented in the brain? Cerebral Cortex 5, 247-260.
5. BURBEA, J. AND RAO, C. R. 1982. On the convexity of some divergence measures based on entropy functions. IEEE Trans, Inform. Theory 28, 3, 489-495.
6. CASTELLÓ, P., SBERT, M., CHOVER, M., AND FEIXAS, M. 2007. Viewpoint entropy-driven simplification. In Proceedings of WSCG 2007. 249-256.
7. CHRISTENSEN, P. Ambient occlusion, image-based illumination and global illumination. Photorealistic RenderMan Application Notes, Note 35.
8. COVER, T. M. AND THOMAS, J. A. 1991. Elements of Information Theory. Wiley-Interscience, Hoboken, NJ.
9. FEIXAS, M. 2002. An information-theory framework for the study of the complexity of visibility and radiosίty in a scene. Ph.D. thesis, Unίversίtat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
10. GAL, R. AND COHEN-OR, D. 2006. Salient geometric features for partial shape matching and similarity. ACM Trans. Graph. 25, 1, 130-150.
11. GONZÁLEZ-BAÑOS, H. H. AND LATOMBE, J.-C. 2002. Navigation strategies for exploring indoor environments, Int. J. Robotics Resear. 21, 10-11, 829-848.
12. GOOCH, B., REINHARD, E., MOULDING, C, AND SHIRLEY, P. 2001. Artistic composition for image creation. In Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques. Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 83-88.
13. IONES, A., KRUPKIN, A., SBERT, M., AND ZHUKOV, S. 2003. Fast, realistic lighting for video games. IEEE Comput. Graph. Appl. 23, 3, 54-64.
14. ITTI, L. AND BALDI, P. 2006. Bayesίan surprise attracts human attention. InAdvances inNeural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 19 (NIPS 2005). 1-8.
15. ITTI, L., KOCH, C, AND NIEBUR, E. 1998. A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis. IEEE Trans. Patt. Anal. Mach. Intel!.. 20, 11, 1254-1259.
16. KIM, Y. AND VARSHNEY, A. 2006. Saliency-guided enhancement for volume visualization. IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graph. 12, 5, 925-932.
17. LANDIS, H. 2002. RenderMan in production. In Course Notes of ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM, New York, NY.
18. LEE, C. H., VARSHNEY, A., AND JACOBS, D. W. 2005. Mesh saliency. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3, 659-666.
19. LU, A., MACIEJEWSKI, R., AND EBERT, D. S. 2006. Volume composition using eye tracking data. In Proceedings of EuroVis '06, ACM, New York, NY, 655-662.
20. PALMER, S., ROSCH, E., AND CHASE, P. 1981. Canonical perspective and the perception of objects. Atten. Perform. IX, 135-151.
21. PLEMENOS, D. AND BENAYADA, M. 1996. Intelligent display techniques in scene modeling. New techniques to automatically compute good views. In Proceedings of Graphi Con'96.
22. POLONSKY, O., PATANÉ, G., BIASOTTI, S., GOTSMAN, C, AND SPAGNUOLO, M. 2005. What's in an image? Visual Computer 21, 8-10, 840-847.
23. SBERT, M., PLEMENOS, D., FEγ; XAS, M., AND GONZÁLEZ, F. 2005. Viewpoint quality: Measures and applications. In Proceedings of 1st Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization and. Imaging, 185-192.
24. SLONIM, N. AND TISHBY, N. 1999. Agglomerative information bottleneck. In Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Sys- tems (NIPS). MIT Press, 617-623.
25. SLONIM, N. AND TISHBY, N. 2000. Document clustering using word clusters via the information bottleneck method. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. ACM, New York, 208-215.
26. SOKOLOV, D., PLEMENOS, D., AND TAMINE, K. 2006. Methods and data structures for virtual world exploration. Visual Computer 22, 7, 506-516.
27. TAKAHASHI, S., FUJISHIRO, I., TAKESHIMA, Y, AND NISHITA, T. 2005. A feature-driven approach to locating optimal viewpoints for volume visualization. In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005. IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, 495-502.
28. TARR, M., BÜ;LTHOFF, H., ZABINSKI, M., AND BLANZ, V. 1997. To what extent do unique parts influence recognition across changes in viewpoint? Psychol. Science 8, 4, 282-289.
29. VAZQUEZ, P. P., FEIXAS, M., SBEHT, M., AND HEIDRICH, W. 2001. Viewpoint selection using viewpoint entropy. In Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2001, ACM, New York, 273-280.
30. VÁZQUEZ, P.-P., FEIXAS, M., SBERT, M., AND HEIDRICH, W. 2003. Automatic view selection using viewpoint entropy and its appli- cations to image-based modeling. Comput. Graph. For, 22, 4, 689-700.
31. VÁQUEZ, P. P., FEIXAS, M., SBERT, M., AND LLOBET, A. 2006. Realtime automatic selection of good molecular views. Comput, Graph. 30, 1, 98-110.
32. VIOLA, I., FEIXAS, M., SBERT, M., AND GRÖ;LLER, M. E. 2006. Importance-driven focus of attention. IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graph. 12, 5, 933-940.
33. YAMAUCHI, H., SALEEM, W., YOSHIZAWA, S., KARNI, Z., BELYAEV, A. G., AND SEIDEL, H.-P. 2006. Towards stable and salient multi-view representation of 3D shapes. In IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications. IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, 265-270.
34. ZHUKOV, S., IONES, A., AND KRONIN, G. 1998. An ambient light illumination model. In Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop: Rendering Techniques. 45-56.