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2011 IEEE VIS Papers

Vis Papers
Session : 
Saliency, Deep Features, Events and Devices
Date & Time : October 25 02:00 pm - 03:40 pm
Location : Room 557
Chair : Xiangfeng David Gu
Papers : 
Saliency-Assisted Navigation of Very Large Landscape Images
Authors:
Cheuk Yiu Ip, Amitabh Varshney
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  The field of visualization has addressed navigation of very large datasets, usually meshes and volumes. Significantly less attention has been devoted to the issues surrounding navigation of very large images. In the last few years the explosive growth in the resolution of camera sensors and robotic image acquisition techniques has widened the gap between the display and image resolutions to three orders of magnitude or more. This paper presents the first steps towards navigation of very large images, particularly landscape images, from an interactive visualization perspective. The grand challenge in navigation of very large images is identifying regions of potential interest. In this paper we outline a three-step approach. In the first step we use multi-scale saliency to narrow down the potential areas of interest. In the second step we outline a method based on statistical signatures to further cull out regions of high conformity. In the final step we allow a user to interactively identify the exceptional regions of high interest that merit further attention. We show that our approach of progressive elicitation is fast and allows rapid identification of regions of interest. Unlike previous work in this area, our approach is scalable and computationally reasonable on very large images. We validate the results of our approach by comparing them to user-tagged regions of interest on several very large landscape images from the Internet.  
Hierarchical Event Selection for Video Storyboards with a Case Study on Snooker Video Visualization
Authors:
M. L. Parry, P. A. Legg, D. H. S. Chung, I. W. Griffiths, M. Chen
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Artificial Defocus for Displaying Markers in Microscopy Z-Stacks
Authors:
Alessandro Giusti, Pierluigi Taddei, Cristina Magli, Giorgio Corani, Luca Gambardella, Luca Gian
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Visualization of Topological Structures in Area-Preserving Maps
Authors:
Xavier Tricoche, Christoph Garth, Allen Sanderson
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Multi-Touch Table System for Medical Visualization: Application to Orthopedic Surgery Planning
Authors:
Claes Lundström, Thomas Rydell, Camilla Forsell, Anders Persson, Anders Ynnerman
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Session : 
High Performance and Scalable Vis
Date & Time : October 25 04:15 pm - 05:55 pm
Location : Room 557
Chair : Gordon Kindlman
Papers : 
Load-Balanced Parallel Streamline Generation on Large Scale Vector Fields
Authors:
Boonthanome Nouanesengsy, Teng-Yok Lee, Han-Wei Shen
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Extinction-Based Shading and Illumination in GPU Volume Ray-Casting
Authors:
Philipp Schlegel, Maxim Makhinya, Renato Pajarola
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GPU-Based Interactive Cut-Surface Extraction From High-Order Finite Element Fields
Authors:
Blake Nelson, Robert Haimes, Robert M. Kirby
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GPU-Based Real-time Approximation of the Ablation Zone for Radiofrequency Ablation
Authors:
Christian Rieder, Tim Kröger, Christian Schumann, Horst K. Hahn
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Session : 
Statistics, Geometry and Signal Processing
Date & Time : October 26 08:30 am - 10:10 am
Location : Room 557
Chair : Gunther Weber
Papers : 
Feature-Based Statistical Analysis of Combustion Simulation Data
Authors:
Janine C. Bennett, Vaidyanathan Krishnamoorthy, Shusen Liu, Ray W. Grout, Evatt R. Hawkes, Jacqueline H. Chen, Jason Shepherd, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer
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Quasi Interpolation With Voronoi Splines
Authors:
Mahsa Mirzargar, Alireza Entezari
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Topological Spines: A Structure-preserving Visual Representation of Scalar Fields
Authors:
Carlos D. Correa, Peter Lindstrom, Peer-Timo Bremer
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Towards Robust Topology of Sparsely Sampled Data
Authors:
Carlos D. Correa, Peter Lindstrom
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Visualization of AMR Data With Multi-Level Dual-Mesh Interpolation
Authors:
Patrick J. Moran, David Ellsworth
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Session : 
Parametric and High Dimensional Space Exploration
Date & Time : October 26 10:30 am - 12:10 pm
Location : Room 557
Chair : Shigeo Takahashi
Papers : 
Nodes on Ropes: A comprehensive Data and Control Flow for Steering Ensemble Simulations
Authors:
Jürgen Waser, Hrvoje Ribičić, Raphael Fuchs, Christian Hirsch, Benjamin Schindler, Günther Blöschl, M. Eduard Gröller
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Interactive Visual Analysis of Multi-parameter Fluorescence Microscopy Data in Toponomics
Authors:
Steffen Oeltze, Wolfgang Freiler, Reyk Hillert, Helmut Doleisch, Bernhard Preim, Walter Schubert
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Tuner: Principled Parameter Finding for Image Segmentation Algorithms Using Visual Response Surface Exploration
Authors:
Thomas Torsney-Weir, Ahmed Saad, Torsten Möller, Britta Weber, Hans-Christian Hege, Jean-Marc Verbavatz, Steven Bergner
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Branching and Circular Features in High Dimensional Data
Authors:
Bei Wang, Brian Summa, Valerio Pascucci, Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson
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Features in Continuous Parallel Coordinates
Authors:
Dirk J. Lehmann, Holger Theisel
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Session : 
Enriched Rendering and Visualization
Date & Time : October 26 02:00 pm - 03:40 pm
Location : Room 557
Chair : Bernhard Preim
Papers : 
About the Influence of Illumination Models on Image Comprehension in Direct Volume Rendering
Authors:
Florian Lindemann, Timo Ropinski
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Automatic Transfer Functions based on Informational Divergence
Authors:
Marc Ruiz, Anton Bardera, Imma Boada, Ivan Viola, Miquel Feixas, Mateu Sbert
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The Effect of Colour and Transparency on the Perception of Overlaid Grids
Authors:
Lyn Bartram, Billy Cheung, Maureen C. Stone
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Flow Radar Glyphs - Static Visualization of Unsteady Flow with Uncertainty
Authors:
Marcel Hlawatsch, Philipp Leube, Wolfgang Nowak, Daniel Weiskopf
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iView: A Feature Clustering Framework for Suggesting Informative Views in Volume Visualization
Authors:
Ziyi Zheng, Nafees Ahmed, Klaus Mueller
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Session : 
Maps and Surfaces
Date & Time : October 26 04:15 pm - 05:55 pm
Location : Room 557
Chair : Raphael Wenger
Papers : 
Volume Analysis Using Multimodal Surface Similarity
Authors:
Martin Haidacher, Stefan Bruckner, M. Eduard Gröller
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Asymmetric Tensor Field Visualization for Surfaces
Authors:
Guoning Chen, Darrel Palke, Zhongzang Lin, Harry Yeh, Paul Vincent, Robert S. Laramee, Eugene Zhang
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An Interactive Local Flattening Operator to Support Digital Investigations on Artwork Surfaces
Authors:
Nico Pietroni, Massimiliano Corsini, Paolo Cignoni, Roberto Scopigno
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Context Preserving Maps of Tubular Structures
Authors:
Joseph Marino, Wei Zeng, Xianfeng Gu, Arie Kaufman
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Authalic Parameterization of General Surfaces Using Lie Advection
Authors:
Guangyu Zou, Jiaxi Hu, Xianfeng Gu, Jing Hua
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Session : 
Aided Explorations
Date & Time : October 27 08:30 am - 10:10 am
Location : Room 557
Chair : Xavier Tricoche
Papers : 
TransGraph: Hierarchical Exploration of Transition Relationships in Time-Varying Volumetric Data
Authors:
Yi Gu, Chaoli Wang
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Voronoi-based Extraction and Visualization of Molecular Paths
Authors:
Norbert Lindow, Daniel Baum, Hans-Christian Hege
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Symmetry in Scalar Field Topology
Authors:
Dilip Mathew Thomas, Vijay Natarajan
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A Scale Space Based Persistence Measure for Critical Points in 2D Scalar Fields
Authors:
Jan Reininghaus, Natallia Kotava, David Günther, Jens Kasten, Hans Hagen, Ingrid Hotz
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Evaluation of Trend Localization with Multi-variate Visualizations
Authors:
Mark A. Livingston, Jonathan W. Decker
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Session : 
Flow Visualization
Date & Time : October 27 02:00 pm - 03:40 pm
Location : Room 557
Chair : Christoph Garth
Papers : 
Straightening Tubular Flow for Side-by-Side Visualization
Authors:
Paolo Angelelli, Helwig Hauser
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Vortex Visualization in Ultra Low Reynolds Number Insect Flight
Authors:
Christopher Koehler, Thomas Wischgoll, Haibo Dong, Zachary Gaston
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Time-dependent Vortex Regions based on the Acceleration Magnitude
Authors:
Jens Kasten, Jan Reininghaus, Ingrid Hotz, Hans-Christian Hege
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Adaptive Extraction and Quantification of Geophysical Vortices
Authors:
Sean Williams, Mark Petersen, Peer-Timo Bremer, Matthew Hecht, Valerio Pascucci, James Ahrens, Mario Hlawitschka, Bernd Hamann
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FoamVis: Visualization of Foam Simulation Data
Authors:
Dan R. Lipşa, Robert S. Laramee, Simon J. Cox, I. Tudur Davies
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Session : 
Enhanced Rendering and Visualization
Date & Time : October 27 04:15 pm - 05:55 pm
Location : Room 557
Chair : Charles Hansen
Papers : 
WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) Volume Visualization
Authors:
Hanqi Guo, Ningyu Mao, Xiaoru Yuan
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Interactive Volume Visualization of General Polyhedral Grids
Authors:
Philipp Muigg, Markus Hadwiger, Helmut Doleisch, Eduard Gröller
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Image Plane Sweep Volume Illumination
Authors:
Erik Sundén, Anders Ynnerman, Timo Ropinski
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Interactive Multiscale Tensor Reconstruction for Multiresolution Volume Visualization
Authors:
Susanne K. Suter, José A. Iglesias Guitián, Fabio Marton, Marco Agus, Andreas Elsener, Christoph P.E. Zollikofer, M. Gopi, Enrico Gobbetti, Renato Pajarola
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An Efficient Direct Volume Rendering Approach for Dichromats
Authors:
Weifeng Chen, Wei Chen, Hujun Bao
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Session : 
Medical Visualization
Date & Time : October 28 08:30 am - 10:10 am
Location : Room 557
Chair : Kelly Gaither
Papers : 
Interactive Virtual Probing of 4D MRI Blood-Flow
Authors:
Roy van Pelt, Javier Oliván Bescós, Marcel Breeuwer, Rachel E. Clough, M. Eduard Gröller, Bart ter Haar Romeny, Anna Vilanova
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Crepuscular Rays for Tumor Accessibility Planning
Authors:
Rostislav Khlebnikov, Bernhard Kainz, Judith Muehl, Dieter Schmalstieg
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Distance Visualization for Interactive 3D Implant Planning
Authors:
Christian Dick, Rainer Burgkart, Rüdiger Westermann
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The FLOWLENS: A Focus-and-Context Visualization Approach for Exploration of Blood Flow in Cerebral Aneurysms
Authors:
Rocco Gasteiger, Mathias Neugebauer, Oliver Beuing, Bernhard Preim
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Projection-Based Metal-Artifact Reduction for Industrial 3D X-ray Computed Tomography
Authors:
Artem Amirkhanov, Christoph Heinzl, Michael Reiter, Johann Kastner, M. Eduard Gröller
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