Display of Surfaces from Volume Data
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Computer graphics: principles and practice (2nd ed.)
Computer graphics: principles and practice (2nd ed.)
Footprint evaluation for volume rendering
SIGGRAPH '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Segmented ray casting for data parallel volume rendering
PRS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 symposium on Parallel rendering
A data distributed, parallel algorithm for ray-traced volume rendering
PRS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 symposium on Parallel rendering
A Sorting Classification of Parallel Rendering
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Fast volume rendering using a shear-warp factorization of the viewing transformation
SIGGRAPH '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
PRS '97 Proceedings of the IEEE symposium on Parallel rendering
V-buffer: visible volume rendering
SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Image Composition Schemes for Sort-Last Polygon Rendering on 2D Mesh Multicomputers
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Analysis of a Parallel Volume Rendering System Based on the Shear-Warp Factorization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Parallel Volume Rendering Using Binary-Swap Compositing
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
SIGGRAPH '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Parallel Rendering Techniques for Massively Parallel Visualization
PAS '97 Proceedings of the 2nd AIZU International Symposium on Parallel Algorithms / Architecture Synthesis
ICPP '99 Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing
VV '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics
A data distributed parallel algorithm for nonrigid image registration
Parallel Computing
Commodity cluster-based parallel processing of hyperspectral imagery
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Direct send compositing for parallel sort-last rendering
EG PGV'07 Proceedings of the 7th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
EG PGV'09 Proceedings of the 9th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Fast compositing for cluster-parallel rendering
EG PGV'10 Proceedings of the 10th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
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Although the sort-last parallel rendering is a promising approach to accelerate large-scale computer graphics applications handling huge data sets, parallel image composition is a bottleneck of performance improvement. So far, several image coding schemes have been proposed in order to achieve fast image composition by compressing communicated data. These schemes mainly encode blank pixels in rendered images, which are pixels with no projection of objects. However, sufficient compression was not available in the case that rendered images have few blank pixels. This paper presents an image coding scheme that reduces the communication time in parallel image composition by effective compression of non-blank pixels and load balancing. The coding scheme exploits coherence of differential pixel values with a few additional computations that do not spoil the reduction in communication time. Experiments on a PC cluster with eight processing elements connected by a 100 Mbit Ethernet switching hub show that the worst frame rate of all viewing parameters can greatly be improved by the proposed coding scheme.