Obscurance-based Volume Rendering Framework

Marc Ruiz, Imma Boada, Ivan Viola, Stefan Bruckner, Miquel Feixas, Mateu Sbert

INPROCEEDINGS, Proceedings of IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume and Point-Based Graphics, Aug, 2008

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Abstract

Obscurances, from which ambient occlusion is a particular case, is a technology that produces natural-looking lighting effects in a faster way than global illumination. Its application in volume visualization is of special interest since it permits us to generate a high quality rendering at a low cost. In this paper, we propose an obscurance-based framework that allows us to obtain realistic and illustrative volume visualizations in an interactive manner. Obscurances can include color bleeding effects without additional cost. Moreover, we obtain a saliency map from the gradient of obscurances and we show its application to enhance volume visualization and to select the most salient views.

Published

Proceedings of IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume and Point-Based Graphics

• Pages: 113–120
• Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Date: Aug 2008
• Project: Illustrative Visualization, MedViz
• URL: http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2008/ruiz-2008-OVR/

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{ruiz08obscurance,
  title = {Obscurance-based Volume Rendering Framework},
  author = {Marc Ruiz and Imma Boada and Ivan Viola and Stefan Bruckner and Miquel Feixas and Mateu Sbert}, 
  year = {2008},
  pages = {113--120},
  month = {Aug},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume and Point-Based Graphics},
  location = {Los Angeles, CA, USA},
  abstract = {Obscurances, from which ambient occlusion is a particular case, is a technology that produces natural-looking lighting effects in a faster way than global illumination. Its application in volume visualization is of special interest since it permits us to generate a high quality rendering at a low cost. In this paper, we propose an obscurance-based framework that allows us to obtain realistic and illustrative volume visualizations in an interactive manner. Obscurances can include color bleeding effects without additional cost. Moreover, we obtain a saliency map from the gradient of obscurances and we show its application to enhance volume visualization and to select the most salient views.},
  URL = {http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2008/ruiz-2008-OVR/},

}