Fast Image-Based Modeling of Astronomical Nebulae

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dc.contributor.authorWenger, Stephanen_US
dc.contributor.authorLorenz, Dirken_US
dc.contributor.authorMagnor, Marcusen_US
dc.contributor.editorB. Levy, X. Tong, and K. Yinen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T16:10:47Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T16:10:47Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractAstronomical nebulae are among the most complex and visually appealing phenomena known outside the bounds of the Solar System. However, our fixed vantage point on Earth limits us to a single known view of these objects, and their intricate volumetric structure cannot be recovered directly. Recent approaches to reconstructing a volumetric 3D model use the approximate symmetry inherent to many nebulae, but require several hours of computation time on large multi-GPU clusters. We present a novel reconstruction algorithm based on group sparsity that reaches or even exceeds the quality of prior results while taking only a fraction of the time on a conventional desktop PC, thereby enabling end users in planetariums or educational facilities to produce high-quality content without expensive hardware or manual modeling. In principle, our approach can be generalized to other transparent phenomena with arbitrary types of user-specified symmetries.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.12216en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12216en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.8 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectApplicationsen_US
dc.subjecten_US
dc.subjectJ.2 [Computer Applications]en_US
dc.subjectPhysical Sciences and Engineeringen_US
dc.subjectAstronomyen_US
dc.titleFast Image-Based Modeling of Astronomical Nebulaeen_US
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