Perceptually-based depth-ordering enhancement for direct volume rendering

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 446-459

  Zheng, Lin ^a   Wu, Yingcai ^b   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

depth ordering; depth perception; transparency; visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX VOLUME; DEPTH ORDERING; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; INNER STRUCTURE; PERCEPTION MODEL; REDUNDANT INFORMATIONS; RENDERED IMAGES; TRANSPARENCY PERCEPTION; VISUAL CUES; VOLUME RENDERING METHODS;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; TRANSPARENCY; VOLUME RENDERING;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872307037     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.144     Document Type: Article

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