Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Display of surfaces from volume data
Display of surfaces from volume data
Volume rendering using the Fourier projection-slice theorem
Proceedings of the conference on Graphics interface '92
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Semi-automatic generation of transfer functions for direct volume rendering
VVS '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization
SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Optical Models for Direct Volume Rendering
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Multidimensional Transfer Functions for Interactive Volume Rendering
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
SIGGRAPH '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Importance-Driven Volume Rendering
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
An Intelligent System Approach to Higher-Dimensional Classification of Volume Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Importance-Driven Feature Enhancement in Volume Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
HDR VolVis: High Dynamic Range Volume Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
High-Level User Interfaces for Transfer Function Design with Semantics
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Size-based Transfer Functions: A New Volume Exploration Technique
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Visibility-driven transfer functions
PACIFICVIS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium
Contextual picking of volumetric structures
PACIFICVIS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
BrainGazer - Visual Queries for Neurobiology Research
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Interactive clipping techniques for texture-based volume visualization and volume shading
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Instant volume visualization using maximum intensity difference accumulation
EuroVis'09 Proceedings of the 11th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
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Direct volume rendering techniques have been successfully applied to visualizing volumetric datasets across many application domains. Due to the sensitivity of transfer functions and the complexity of fine-tuning transfer functions, direct volume rendering is still not widely used in practice. For fast volumetric data exploration, we propose Importance-Based Accumulated Transparency Modulation which does not rely on transfer function manipulation. This novel rendering algorithm is a generalization and extension of the Maximum Intensity Difference Accumulation technique. By only modifying the accumulated transparency, the resulted volume renderings are essentially high dynamic range. We show that by using several common importance measures, different features of the volumetric datasets can be highlighted. The results can be easily extended to a high-dimensional importance difference space, by mixing the results from an arbitrary number of importance measures with weighting factors, which all control the final output with a monotonic behavior. With Importance-Based Accumulated Transparency Modulation, the end-user can explore a wide variety of volumetric datasets quickly without the burden of manually setting and adjusting a transfer function.