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Projects: Volume Visualization

This area embraces a wide gamut of projects. We are concerned with algorithms and techniques for volume rendering (point-based, also known as splatting, and ray-based) on regular as well as irregular grids, GPU accelerated rendering, rendering of multi-modal and time-varying datasets, feature-centric and illustrative visualization, intuitive user interfaces, modeling with volumetric datasets (examples: ablation, melting), volume graphics and rendering with volumetric effects (examples: radiosity, shadows), image-based volume rendering, and others. A related area is research on interpolation filters and data grids.

	RadVolViz: An Information Display-Inspired Transfer Function Editor for Multivariate Volume Visualization A. Kumar, X. Zhang, H. Xin, H. Yan, X. Huang, W. Xu,, K. Mueller IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (to appear), 2023
	Conformal Magnifier: A Focus+Context Technique with Local Shape Preservation X. Zhao, W. Zeng, X. Gu, A. Kaufman, W. Xu, K. Mueller IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 18(11): 1928-1941, 2012
	iView: Feature Clustering Framework for Suggesting Informative Views in Volume Visualization Z. Zheng, N. Ahmed, K. Mueller IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Special issue IEEE Visualization Conference 2011) 17(12):1959-68, 2011
	VDVR: Verifiable Volume Visualization of Projection-Based Data Z. Zheng, W. Xu, K. Mueller IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Special issue IEEE Visualization Conference 2010) 16(6):1515-1524, 2010
	Continuous Frequency Volume Rendering of irregularly sampled data using Gaussian RBF Q. Dinh, N. Neophytou, K. Mueller IEEE Visualization Conference (Poster Session) Atlantic City, October, 2009
	Color design for illustrative visualization L. Wang, J. Giesen, K. McDonnell, P. Zolliker, and K. Mueller IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Special issue IEEE Visualization Conference 2008) 14(6):1739-1754, 2008
	Harmonic Colormaps for Volume Visualization L. Wang and K. Mueller IEEE/EG Symposium on Volume Graphics Los Angeles, August 2008 pp. 33-40.
	Lattice-based volumetric global illumination F. Qiu, F. Xu, Z. Fan, N. Neophytou, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Special issue IEEE Visualization Conference 2007) 13(6):1576-1583, 2007
	Conjoint analysis to measure the perceived quality in volume rendering J. Giesen, K. Mueller, E. Schuberth, L. Wang, and P. Zolliker IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Special issue IEEE Visualization Conference 2007) 13(6): 1664-1671, 2007
	Subdivision volume splatting K. T. McDonnell, Neophytos Neophytou, Klaus Mueller and Hong Qin Joint Eurographics - IEEE TVGC Symposium on Visualization 2007 (EuroVis'07) Norrköping, Sweden, May 2007 pp. 139-147
	A perceptual framework for comparisons of direct volume rendered images H.Wong, H. Qu, U. Wong, Z. Tang, and K. Mueller EEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT'06) (also in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Image and Video Technology, vol 4319) Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 2006 pp. 1314-1323
	An image-based modelling approach to GPU-based rendering of unstructured grids N. Shareef, T.-Y. Lee, H.-W. Shen, and K. Mueller Volume Graphics 2006 Boston, MA, July 2006 pp. 31-38
	SIMD-aware raycasting W. Leung, N. Neophytou, and K. Mueller Volume Graphics 2006 Boston, MA, July 2006 pp. 59-62
	GPU-accelerated D2VR F. Xu and K. Mueller Volume Graphics 2006 Boston, MA, July 2006 pp. 23-30
	GPU-accelerated volume splatting with elliptical RBFs N . Neophytou, K. Mueller, K. McDonnell, W. Hong, X. Guan, H. Qin, and A. Kaufman Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization 2006 (EuroVis'06) Lisbon, Portugal, May 2006 pp. 13-20
	On the simplification of Radial Basis Function fields for volume rendering: some practical insights N . Neophytou, K. McDonnell, and K. Mueller Technical Report, Stony Brook University June 2006
	MediCAD: An Integrated Visualization System for DTI and fMRI Fusion with Anatomical MRI for Presurgical Planning X. Guan, S. Lai, J. Lackey, J. Shi, U. Techavipoo, K. Mueller, A. Flanders, D. Andrews 14th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM '06) Seattle, WA, May, 2006
	Constructing 3D elliptical Gaussians for irregular data W. Hong, N. Neophytou, K. Mueller, and A. Kaufman In: Mathematical Foundations of Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics, and Massive Data Exploration Springer Verlag, 2006
	The Magic Volume Lens: An Interactive Focus+Context Technique for Volume Rendering L. Wang, Y. Zhao, K. Mueller, and A. Kaufman IEEE Visualization 2005 Minneapolis, October 2005 pp. 367-374
	Accelerated, high-quality refraction computations for volume graphics S. Li and K. Mueller Volume Graphics 2005 Stony Brook, June 2005 pp. 73-81
	GPU accelerated image aligned splatting N. Neophytou and K. Mueller Volume Graphics 2005 Stony Brook, June 2005 pp. 197-205
	*Overview of Volume Rendering* A. Kaufman and K. Mueller The Visualization Handbook Academic Press, 2005 (to appear)
	*Volume exploration made easy using feature maps* K. Mueller, S. Lakare, and A. Kaufman In: Scientific Visualization: Extracting Information and Knowledge from Scientific Data Sets Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005
	*Engine Room: A comparitive environment for volume rendering engines* M. Steinberg, K. Mueller, and R. Kelly Computer Graphics International 2005 Stony Brook, June2005 Poster Proceedings
	*Generating sub-resolution detail in images and volumes using constrained texture synthesis* L. Wang and K. Mueller IEEE Visualization 2004 Austin, Texas, October 2004 pp. 75-82
	*Methods for effcient, high quality volume resampling in the frequency domain* A. Li and K. Mueller IEEE Visualization 2004 Austin, Texas, October 2004 pp. 3-10
	SQUEEZE: Numerical-precision-optimized volume rendering I. Bitter, N. Neophytos, K. Mueller, and A. Kaufman Siggraph/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2004 Grenoble, August, 2004 pp. 25-34
	Empty-space skipping and occlusion clipping for texture-based volume rendering W. Li, K. Mueller, and A. Kaufman IEEE Visualization 2003 Seattle, October, 2003 pp. 317-325
	A frequency-sensitive point hierarchy for images and volumes T. Welsh and K. Mueller IEEE Visualization 2003 Seattle, October, 2003 pp. 425-432
	*Hardware Assisted Multichannel Volume Rendering* A. Gosh, P. Prabhu, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller Computer Graphics International 2003 Tokyo, Japan, July, 2003 pp. 2-7
	*Interactive transfer function modification for volume rendering using* *compressed sample runs* V. Srivastava, U. Chebrolu, and K. Mueller Computer Graphics International 2003 Tokyo, Japan, July, 2003 pp. 8-13
	*Volume ablation rendering* H. Varadhan and K. Mueller Volume Graphics Workshop 2003 Tokyo, Japan, July, 2003 pp. 53-60
	*Post-convolved splatting* N. Neophytou and K. Mueller Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization 2003 Grenoble, France, May, 2003 pp. 223-230
	*Interactive transfer function modification for volume rendering using* *pre-shaded sample runs* V. Srivastava, U. Chebrolu, and K. Mueller Pacific Graphics'02 Beijing, China, October, 2002 pp. 489-490
	*Space-time points: Splatting in 4D* N. Neophytou and K. Mueller Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2002 Boston, October 2002 pp. 97-106
	*Shear-Warp Deluxe: The shear-warp algorithm revisited* J. Sweeney and K. Mueller Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization 2002 Barcelona, Spain, May 2002 pp. 95-104
	*Splatting with shadows* M. Nulkar and K. Mueller International Workshop on Volume Graphics 2001 Stony Brook, June 2001 pp. 35-50
	*A parallel splatting algorithm with occlusion culling* J. Huang, N. Shareef, R. Crawfis, P. Sadayappan, and K. Mueller 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization Girona, Spain, September 2000
	*A practical comparison of popular volume rendering algorithms* M. Meissner, J. Huang, D. Bartz, K. Mueller, and R. Crawfis Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2000 Salt-Lake City, October 2000 pp. 81-90
	*Volumetric backprojection* F. Dachille, K. Mueller, and Ari Kaufman 2000 Symposium on Volume Rendering, Salt-Lake City, October 2000 pp. 109-117
	*FastSplats: Optimized splatting on rectilinear grids* J. Huang, K. Mueller, N. Shareef, and R. Crawfis IEEE Visualization'00 Salt-Lake City, October 2000 pp. 219-227
	*IBR-assisted volume rendering* K. Mueller, N. Shareef, J. Huang, and R. Crawfis Late Breaking Hot Topics, IEEE Visualization'99 San Francisco, October 1999 (won Best Hot Topic award)
	*Splatting without the blur* K. Mueller, T. Möller, and R. Crawfis IEEE Visualization'99 San Francisco, October 1999 pp. 363-371
	*High-quality splatting on rectilinear grids with efficient culling of occluded voxels* K. Mueller, N. Shareef, J. Huang, and R. Crawfis IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 116-134, 1999
	*Eliminating popping artifacts in sheet buffer-based splatting* K. Mueller and R. Crawfis IEEE Visualization '98 Chapel Hill, October 1998 pp. 239-245
	*Splatting errors and antialiasing* K. Mueller, T. Möller, J.E. Swan, R. Crawfis, N. Shareef, and R. Yagel IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 178-191, 1998 (won Naval Notable Achievement Award)
	*An anti-aliasing technique for splatting* J.E. Swan, K. Mueller, T. Möller, N. Shareef, R. Crawfis, and R. Yagel IEEE Visualization'97 Phoenix, October 1997 pp. 197-204 (won Best Paper Award.)
	*Fast perspective volume rendering with splatting by using a ray-driven approach* K. Mueller and R. Yagel IEEE Visualization'96 San Francisco, October 1996 pp. 65-72

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