Title :
4D volume rendering with the shear warp factorisation: extensions and quantitative results
Author :
Anagnostou, Kostas ; Atherton, Tim J. ; Waterfall, Andrew E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Warwick Univ., Coventry, UK
Abstract :
We present extensions to an approach for rendering time-varying data based on the shear-warp factorisation. The change detection technique is adapted to process Poisson distributed datasets, a modified block differencing technique that decreases the change detection errors is presented along with a modification of the original run-length encoding method which allows better spatial compression for volume with uniform and slowly changing background. Results are presented on datasets originating from optical microscopes which demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed methods
Keywords :
biology computing; data compression; optical microscopy; rendering (computer graphics); 4D volume rendering; Poisson distributed datasets; change detection errors; change detection technique; modified block differencing technique; optical microscopes; run-length encoding method; shear warp factorisation; spatial compression; time-varying data; Astronomy; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical optical imaging; Coherence; Computer science; Data visualization; Distributed control; Encoding; Optical imaging; Optical microscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualisation, 2001. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1195-3
DOI :
10.1109/IV.2001.942093