Automatic transfer functions based on informational divergence

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1932-1941

  Ruiz, Marc ^a   Bardera, Anton ^a   Boada, Imma ^a   Viola, Ivan ^b   Feixas, Miquel ^a   Sbert, Mateu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Information theory; Informational divergence; Kullback Leibler distance; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY;

2D TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; DATA VALUES; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; INFORMATIONAL DIVERGENCE; IT SUPPORTS; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DISTANCE; SPATIAL SEGMENTATION; VOLUME DATA SETS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 80855132093     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.173     Document Type: Article

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