Automatic Transfer Functions Based on Informational Divergence

Authors:
Marc Ruiz;Anton Bardera;Imma Boada;Ivan Viola
Affiliations:
University of Girona;University of Girona;University of Girona;University of Bergen
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Year:
2011

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Abstract

In this paper we present a framework to define transfer functions from a target distribution provided by the user. A target distribution can reflect the data importance, or highly relevant data value interval, or spatial segmentation. Our approach is based on a communication channel between a set of viewpoints and a set of bins of a volume data set, and it supports 1D as well as 2D transfer functions including the gradient information. The transfer functions are obtained by minimizing the informational divergence or Kullback-Leibler distance between the visibility distribution captured by the viewpoints and a target distribution selected by the user. The use of the derivative of the informational divergence allows for a fast optimization process. Different target distributions for 1D and 2D transfer functions are analyzed together with importance-driven and view-based techniques.