Positional uncertainty of isocontours: Condition analysis and probabilistic measures

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1393-1406

  Pothkow, Kai ^a   Hege, Hans Christian ^a  

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

error analysis; isolines; isosurfaces; numerical condition; probability; Uncertainty; volume visualization.

Indexed keywords

ISO SURFACE; ISOLINES; NUMERICAL CONDITION; UNCERTAINTY; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80051692876     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.247     Document Type: Article

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