Papers

IEEE Visualization Conference 2008


Session 1: Volume Rendering and Modeling I
Chair: Hans Hagen
Texture-based Transfer Functions for Direct Volume Rendering
Jesus J. Caban, Penny Rheingans
  Volume MLS Ray Casting
Christian Ledergerber, Gaël Guennebaud, Miriah Meyer, Moritz Bächer, Hanspeter Pfister
  Size-based Transfer Functions: A New Volume Exploration Technique
Carlos D. Correa, Kwan-Liu Ma
  Direct Volume Editing
Kai Bürger, Jens Krüger, Rüdiger Westermann
   
Session 2: Information Visualization
Chair: T.J. Kelly
Continuous Scatterplots
Sven Bachthaler, Daniel Weiskopf
Extensions of Parallel Coordinates for Interactive Exploration of Large Multi-Timepoint Data Sets
Jorik Blaas, Charl P. Botha, Frits H. Post
Vectorized Radviz and Its Application to Multiple Cluster Datasets
John Sharko, Georges Grinstein, Kenneth A. Marx
    Effective Visualization of Short Routes
Patrick Degener, Ruwen Schnabel, Christopher Schwartz, Reinhard Klein
   
Session 3: Flow Visualization
Chair: Eugene Zhang
    Smoke Surfaces: An Interactive Flow Visualization Technique Inspired by Real-World Flow Experiments
Wolfram von Funck, Tino Weinkauf, Holger Theisel, Hans-Peter Seidel
 

Generation of Accurate Integral Surfaces in Time-Dependent Vector Fields
Christoph Garth, Hari Krishnan, Xavier Tricoche, Tom Bobach, Kenneth I. Joy

  Visualizing Particle/Flow Structure Interactions in the Small Bronchial Tubes
Bela Soni, David Thompson, Raghu Machiraju
  Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Transitional Flow
Gregory P. Johnson, Victor M. Calo, Kelly P. Gaither
   
Session 4: Multivariate and Multifield
Chair: Ingrid Hotz
 

Brushing of Attribute Clouds for the Visualization of Multivariate Data
Heike Jänicke, Michael Böttinger, Gerik Scheuermann

Visualizing Temporal Patterns in Large Multivariate Data using Modified Globbing
Markus Glatter, Jian Huang, Sean Ahern, Jamison Daniel, Aidong Lu
   

Interactive Comparison of Scalar Fields Based on Largest Contours with Applications to Flow Visualization
Dominic Schneider, Alexander Wiebel, Hamish Carr, Mario Hlawitschka, Gerik Scheuermann

Surface Extraction from Multi-field Particle Volume Data Using Multi-dimensional Cluster Visualization
Lars Linsen, Tran Van Long, Paul Rosenthal, Stephan Rosswog
   
Session 5: Medical Visualization I
Chair: Dirk Bartz
   

Sinus Endoscopy - Application of Advanced GPU Volume Rendering for Virtual Endoscopy
Arno Krüger, Christoph Kubisch, Gero Strauß, Bernhard Preim

    Glyph-Based SPECT Visualization for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
Jennis Meyer-Spradow, Lars Stegger, Christian Döring, Timo Ropinski, Klaus Hinrichs
    Interactive Volume Exploration for Feature Detection and Quantification in Industrial CT Data
Markus Hadwiger, Laura Fritz, Christof Rezk-Salama, Thomas Höllt, Georg Geier, Thomas Pabel
Interactive Blood Damage Analysis for Ventricular Assist Devices
Bernd Hentschel, Irene Tedjo, Markus Probst, Marc Wolter, Marek Behr, Christian Bischof, Torsten Kuhlen
   
Session 6: Topology and Tensors
Chair: Hamish Carr

A Practical Approach to Morse-Smale Complex Computation: Scalability and Generality
Attila Gyulassy, Peer-Timo Bremer, Bernd Hamann, Valerio Pascucci

Invariant Crease Lines for Topological and Structural Analysis of Tensor Fields
Xavier Tricoche, Gordon Kindlmann, Carl-Fredrik Westin

Estimating Crossing Fibers: A Tensor Decomposition Approach
Thomas Schultz, Hans-Peter Seidel

  Geodesic Distance-weighted Shape Vector Image Diffusion
Jing Hua, Zhaoqiang Lai, Ming Dong, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin
   
Session 7: Volume Rendering and Modeling II
Chair: Charles Hansen
    Box Spline Reconstruction On The Face-Centered Cubic Lattice
Minho Kim, Alireza Entezari, Jörg Peters
  Smooth Surface Extraction from Unstructured Point-based Volume Data Using PDEs
Paul Rosenthal, Lars Linsen
  Particle-based Sampling and Meshing of Surfaces in Multimaterial Volumes
Miriah Meyer, Ross Whitaker, Robert M. Kirby, Christian Ledergerber, Hanspeter Pfister
  Importance-Driven Time-Varying Data Visualization
Chaoli Wang, Hongfeng Yu, Kwan-Liu Ma
   
Session 8: Visualization in the Physical Sciences
Chair: Kelly Gaither
    Visualizing Multiwavelength Astrophysical Data
Hongwei Li, Chi-Wing Fu, Andrew J. Hanson
Visiting the Gödel Universe
Frank Grave, Michael Buser
The Seismic Analyzer: Interpreting and Illustrating 2D Seismic Data
Daniel Patel, Christopher Giertsen, John Thurmond, John Gjelberg, M. Eduard Gröller
  Hypothesis Generation in Climate Research with Interactive Visual Data Exploration
Johannes Kehrer, Florian Ladstädter, Philipp Muigg, Helmut Doleisch, Andrea Steiner, Helwig Hauser
   
Session 9: Meshes and Surfaces
Chair: Mark Duchaineau
 

Edge Groups: An Approach to Understanding the Mesh Quality of Marching Methods
Carlos A. Dietrich, Carlos E. Scheidegger, João L. D. Comba, Luciana P. Nedel, Cláudio T. Silva

  Revisiting Histograms and Isosurface Statistics
Carlos E. Scheidegger, John M. Schreiner, Brian Duffy, Hamish Carr, Cláudio T. Silva
Visibility-driven Mesh Analysis and Visualization through Graph Cuts
Kaichi Zhou, Eugene Zhang, Jiří Bittner, Peter Wonka
Text Scaffolds for Effective Surface Labeling
Gregory Cipriano, Michael Gleicher
   
Session 10: Medical Visualization II
Chair: Anders Ynnerman
 

Novel Interaction Techniques for Neurosurgical Planning and Stereotactic Navigation
Alark Joshi, Dustin Scheinost, Kenneth P. Vives, Dennis D. Spencer, Lawrence H. Staib, Xenophon Papademetris

  Visualization of Myocardial Perfusion Derived from Coronary Anatomy
Maurice Termeer, Javier Oliván Bescós, Marcel Breeuwer, Anna Vilanova, Frans Gerritsen, M. Eduard Gröller, Eike Nagel
  Effective Visualization of Complex Vascular Structures Using a Non-Parametric Vessel Detection Method
Alark Joshi, Xiaoning Qian, Donald P. Dione, Ketan R. Bulsara, Christopher K. Breuer, Albert J. Sinusas, Xenophon Papademetris
    Visualization of Cellular and Microvascular Relationships
David M. Mayerich, Louise Abbott, John Keyser
   

Session 11: Visualization Systems
Chair: Jim Ahrens

Relation-Aware Volume Exploration Pipeline
Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu, Ka-Kei Chung, Wai-Ho Mak, Yingcai Wu

VisComplete: Automating Suggestions for Visualization Pipelines
David Koop, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Steven P. Callahan, Juliana Freire, Cláudio T. Silva

Interactive Visual Steering - Rapid Visual Prototyping of a Common Rail Injection System
Krešimir Matković, Denis Gračanin, Mario Jelović, Helwig Hauser
AD-Frustum: Adaptive Frustum Tracing for Interactive Sound Propagation
Anish Chandak, Christian Lauterbach, Micah Taylor, Zhimin Ren, Dinesh Manocha
  Query-Driven Visualization of Time-Varying Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data
Luke J. Gosink, John C. Anderson, E. Wes Bethel, Kenneth I. Joy
   
Session 12: Perception
Chair: Amitabh Varshney
A Comparison of the Perceptual Benefits of Linear Perspective and Physically-Based Illumination for Display of Dense 3D Streamtubes
Chris Weigle, David C. Banks
Focus+Context Visualization with Distortion Minimization
Yu-Shuen Wang, Tong-Yee Lee, Chiew-Lan Tai
    Color Design for Illustrative Visualization
Lujin Wang, Joachim Giesen, Kevin T. McDonnell, Peter Zolliker, Klaus Mueller
An Efficient Naturalness-Preserving Image-Recoloring Method for Dichromats
Giovane R. Kuhn, Manuel M. Oliveira, Leandro A. F. Fernandes
  Effects of Video Placement and Spatial Context Presentation on Path Reconstruction Tasks with Contextualized Videos
Yi Wang, Doug Bowman, David Krum, Enylton Coelho, Tonya Smith-Jackson, David Bailey, Sarah Peck, Swethan Anand, Trevor Kennedy, Yernar Abdrazakov