Transfer function design based on user selected samples for intuitive multivariate volume exploration

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 73-80

  Zhou, Liang ^a   Hansen, Charles ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer Graphics I.3.7 : Three Dimensional Graphics and Realism Color, shading, shadowing and tex ture; Image Processing and Computer Vision I.4.10 : Image Representation Volumetric

Indexed keywords

[I.3.7]: THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS AND REALISM; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; TRANSFER FUNCTION DESIGNS; VOLUME EXPLORATIONS; VOLUMETRIC DATA SETS; VOLUMETRIC DATA VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84889035012     PISSN: 21658765     EISSN: 21658773     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PacificVis.2013.6596130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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