State of the art in transfer functions for direct volume rendering

P Ljung, J Krüger, E Groller, M Hadwiger… - Computer graphics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A central topic in scientific visualization is the transfer function (TF) for volume rendering.
The TF serves a fundamental role in translating scalar and multivariate data into color and …

[KNJIGA][B] Visual computing for medicine: theory, algorithms, and applications

B Preim, CP Botha - 2013 - books.google.com
Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques
and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes …

Differentiable direct volume rendering

S Weiss, R Westermann - IEEE Transactions on Visualization …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a differentiable volume rendering solution that provides differentiability of all
continuous parameters of the volume rendering process. This differentiable renderer is used …

Deep-learning-assisted volume visualization

HC Cheng, A Cardone, S Jain, E Krokos… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designing volume visualizations showing various structures of interest is critical to the
exploratory analysis of volumetric data. The last few years have witnessed dramatic …

Image-based TF colorization with CNN for direct volume rendering

S Kim, Y Jang, SE Kim - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the direct volume rendering (DVR), it often takes a long time for a novice to manipulate the
transfer function (TF) and analyze the volume data. To lessen the difficulty in volume …

Volumetric feature-based classification and visibility analysis for transfer function design

B Ma, A Entezari - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transfer function (TF) design is a central topic in direct volume rendering. The TF
fundamentally translates data values into optical properties to reveal relevant features …

Learning probabilistic transfer functions: A comparative study of classifiers

KP Soundararajan, T Schultz - Computer Graphics Forum, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Complex volume rendering tasks require high‐dimensional transfer functions, which are
notoriously difficult to design. One solution to this is to learn transfer functions from scribbles …

FLDA: Latent dirichlet allocation based unsteady flow analysis

F Hong, C Lai, H Guo, E Shen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel feature extraction approach called FLDA for unsteady flow
fields based on Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) model. Analogous to topic modeling in text …

An intelligent system approach for probabilistic volume rendering using hierarchical 3D convolutional sparse coding

TM Quan, J Choi, H Jeong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel machine learning-based voxel classification method for
highly-accurate volume rendering. Unlike conventional voxel classification methods that …

Improving separability of structures with similar attributes in 2d transfer function design

S Lan, L Wang, Y Song, Y Wang, L Yao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The 2D transfer function based on scalar value and gradient magnitude (SG-TF) is popularly
used in volume rendering. However, it is plagued by the boundary-overlap** problem …