Visibility histograms and visibility-driven transfer functions

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 192-204

  Correa, Carlos D ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

histograms.; Transfer functions; view point dependent rendering; visibility; volume rendering

Indexed keywords

2D IMAGES; 2D TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; 3D DATA; COMPLEX DATASETS; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; FUNCTION PARAMETERS; GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; HISTOGRAMS.; INTENSITY VALUES; OPACITY TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; RENDERED IMAGES; RENDERING ALGORITHMS; RENDERING PROCESS; SCALAR VALUES; SEMI-AUTOMATED; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS; VIEW-POINT DEPENDENT RENDERING; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM; VOLUME DATA;

THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISIBILITY; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 78650175922     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.35     Document Type: Article

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