Flow‐Based Temporal Selection for Interactive Volume Visualization

dc.contributor.authorFrey, S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorErtl, T.en_US
dc.contributor.editorChen, Min and Zhang, Hao (Richard)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-10T07:42:45Z
dc.date.available2018-01-10T07:42:45Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractWe present an approach to adaptively select time steps from time‐dependent volume data sets for an integrated and comprehensive visualization. This reduced set of time steps not only saves cost, but also allows to show both the spatial structure and temporal development in one combined rendering. Our selection optimizes the coverage of the complete data on the basis of a minimum‐cost flow‐based technique to determine meaningful distances between time steps. As both optimal solutions of the involved transport and selection problem are prohibitively expensive, we present new approaches that are significantly faster with only minor deviations. We further propose an adaptive scheme for the progressive incorporation of new time steps. An interactive volume raycaster produces an integrated rendering of the selected time steps, and their computed differences are visualized in a dedicated chart to provide additional temporal similarity information. We illustrate and discuss the utility of our approach by means of different data sets from measurements and simulation.We present an approach to adaptively select time steps from time‐dependent volume data sets for an integrated and comprehensive visualization. This reduced set of time steps not only saves cost, but also allows to show both the spatial structure and temporal development in one combined rendering. Our selection optimizes the coverage of the complete data on the basis of a minimum‐cost flow‐based technique to determine meaningful distances between time steps. As both optimal solutions of the involved transport and selection problem are prohibitively expensive, we present new approaches that are significantly faster with only minor deviations. We further propose an adaptive scheme for the progressive incorporation of new time steps.en_US
dc.description.number8
dc.description.sectionheadersArticles
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume36
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13070
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages153-165
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13070
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13070
dc.publisher© 2017 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectspatio‐temporal visualization
dc.subjectvolume raycasting
dc.subjectdistance quantification
dc.subjecttime step selection
dc.subjectI.3.m [Computer Graphics]: Miscellaneous
dc.titleFlow‐Based Temporal Selection for Interactive Volume Visualizationen_US
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