ECS276 Advanced Topics in Volume Visualization
Scientists are gaining increasing capability to model complex physical
phenomena on computers. The storage space and processing requirements of
the resulting data, however, can easily overwhelm existing visualization
facilities. In this class, we study different approaches to the problem
of visualizing large, time-varying, multivariate volume datasets.
Each student is expected to complete a research-oriented project.
Time & Place
6:10pm-7:30pm Tuesday and Thursday, 1070 Bainer
Prerequisite
ECS 177 or equivalent
Instructor
Kwan-Liu Ma
2121 Kemper Hall
(530) 752-6958
ma@cs.ucdavis.edu
Office hours: by appointment.
Reading List & Datasets
The information about readings and data sets for projects will be provided in class.
Project Meetings
There will be 1-2 project meetings bewteen the instructor and
each individual student to discuss the scope, research tasks and
schedule of the respective project.
Grading
Grades will be assigned based on attendance and participation,
as well as the quality of the reports, presentations, and project demonstration.
The required extent of each report is illustrated in this guide.
Syllabus
Schedule
Date
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Topic
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Presenters
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| 1/06 |
Overview of the class
Intro. to Volume Visualization
[slides]
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KLM
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| 1/08 |
Intro. to Volume Visualization (continued)
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KLM
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| 1/13 |
Transfer Functions
[slides]
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KLM
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| 1/15 |
Parallel Volume Rendering
[slides]
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KLM
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| 1/20 |
Hardware Accelerated Volume Rendering
[slides]
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Carlos Correa
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| 1/22 |
1. Raycasting of Light Field Galleries from Volumetric Data, Christof Rezk-Slama, Severin Todt and Andreas Kolb. EuroVis 2008.
2. Uncertainty Visualization in Medical Volume Rendering Using Probabilistic Animation, C. Lundstrom et al., IEEE TVCG, 13(60), November-December 2007.
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Nicholas Leaf and Tarik Cronvrsanin
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| 1/27 |
Proposal due
1. Papers about volume visualization of relational data.
2. A collection of papers on web-based and remote visualization.
3. High-Performance Visualization of Time-Varying Volume Data over a Wide-Area Network, K.-L. Ma and D. Camp, Superomputing 2000 Conference.
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Yu-Hsuan Chan, Yu-Hsin Shih, David Camp
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| 1/29 |
1. High-quality two-level volume rendering of segmented data sets on comsumer graphics hardware, M. Hadwiger et al., Vis 2003.
2. Volume visualization interfaces
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Sean Williams and KLM
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| 2/03 |
1. Storytelling for Presentation in Volume Visualization,
Michael Wohlfart and Helwig Hauser, EuroVis 2007.
2. Temporal Styles for Time-Varying Volume Data,
Jean-Paul Balabanian et al., 4th International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission.
3. NPR for Volume Visualization
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Wei-Hsien Hsu and Carlos Correa
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| 2/05 |
1.
Brushing of Attribute Clouds for the
Visualization of Multivariate Data, Heike Janicke, Michael Bottinger, and
Gerik Scheuermann Proceedings of Visualization 2008 Conference
2. Interactive Display of Isosurfaces with Global Illumination, C. Wyman, S. Parker, P. Shirley, and C. Hansen. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(2), March/April, 2006.
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Jishang Wei and Sohail Shafii
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| 2/10 |
1. Exploded Views for Volume Data, Stefan Bruckner and M. Eduard
Groller, IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Visualization,
12(5), September/October, 2006, pp. 1077-1084.
2. Feature Aligned Volume Manipulation for Illustration and Visualization, Carlos Correa, Deborath Silver, and Min Chen, IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Visualization, 12(5), September/October, 2006, pp. 1069-1076.
3. ClearView: An Interactive Context Preserving Hotspot Visualization Technique, Jens Kruger, Jens Schneider, Rudiger Westermann, IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Visualization, 12(5), September/October, 2006, pp. 941-948.
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Dan Potter
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| 2/12 |
1. Reflection Nebula Visualization, M. Magnor et al., in Proceedings of Visualization 2005 Conference.
2. Simultaneous Classification of Time-Varying Volume Data Based on the Time Histogram, Hirosh Akiba et al., EuroVis 2006
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Nicholas Leaf and Tarik Crnovrsanin
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| 2/17 |
1. An Intelligent System Approach to Higher-Dimensional Classification of Volume Data, Fan-Yin Tzeng, Eric Lum, and Kwan-Liu Ma, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics, 11(3), May/June 2005, pp. 273-284.
2. Smoke Surfaces: An Interactive Flow Visualization Technique Inspired by Real-World Flow Experiments, Wolfram von Funck et al., in Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2008 Conference
.
Progress report due
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Yu-Hsuan Chan and Yu-Hsin Shih
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| 2/19 |
1. High-level User Interface for Transfer Function Design with Semantics, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2006 Conference.
2. Scalable Hybrid Unstructured and Structured Grid Raycasting, P. Muigg et al., IEEE TVCG 13(6), November 2007
.
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David Camp and Cheng-Kai Chen
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| 2/24 |
1. Enhancing Depth Perception in Translucent Volumes, IEEE TVCG, 12(5), September/October 2006, pp. 1117-1124.
2. Importance-Driven Visualization
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Sean Williams and Chaoli Wang
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| 2/26 |
1. Visualizing Temporal Patterns in Large Multivariate Data using
Textual Pattern Matching, Markus Glatter, Jian Huang, Sean Ahern, Jamison Daniel and Aidong Lu, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics, 14(6), 2008, pp. 1467-1474. (Vis 2008)
2. Extensions of Parallel Coordinates for Interactive Exploration of Large Multi-Timepoint Data Sets, Blaas, J. Botha, C.P. Post, F.H., IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(6), Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 1436-1451.
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Wei-Hsien Hsu and Jishang Wei
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| 3/03 |
1. Style Transfer Functions for Illustrative Volume Rendering, Stefan Bruckner, Meister Eduard Grller, (Eurographics 2007) Computer Graphics Forum, 26(3):715-724.
2. Volume MLS Ray Casting, C. Ledergerber, G. Guennebaud, M. Meyer, M. Bacher, H. Pfister, Visualization 2008 Conference.
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Sohai Shafii and Cheng-Kai Chen
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| 3/05 |
Project presentations
Preliminary report due
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Dan Potter, Sohail Shafii, Jishang Wei
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| 3/10 |
Project presentations
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David Camp, Sean Williams, , and Wei-Hsien Hsu
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| 3/12 |
Project presentations
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Nicholas Leaf,
Tarik Crnovrsanin, Yu-Hsuan Chan
Yu-Hsin Shin, and Cheng-Kai Chen
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| 3/16 |
Interactive Demos
Final Reports due |
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