VIZLAB Publications


VIZLAB Publications

Selected Publications ---

Volume Graphics

N. Cornea, D. Silver and P. Min, Curve-Skeleton Applications, to appear in - Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005. Minneapolis, Min. 23-28 Oct. 2005. here

Carlos D. Correa and Deborah Silver. Dataset Traversal with Motion-Controlled Transfer Functions. To appear in: Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005. Minneapolis, Min. 23-28 Oct. 2005. here

N. Cornea, D. Silver, X. Yuan, and R. Balasubramanian, Computing Hierarchical Curve-Skeletons of 3D Objects, The Visual Computer, September 2005. here

N. Cornea, M. Demirci , D. Silver, A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, P. Kantor (2005). 3D Object Retrieval using Many-to-many Matching of Curve Skeletons. IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2005). MIT, Boston, MA. June 15-17, 2005. here

M. Chen, C. Correa, S. Islam, M.W. Jones, P.-Y. Shen, D. Silver, S. J. Watson, P.J. Willis (In Alphabetical Order). Deforming and Animating Discretely Sampled Object Representations. Eurographics 2005, State of the Art Reports (STAR), August 29 - September 2, 2005, pp. 113-140. here

D. Silver, K. Yaws, C. Correa, W. Hurt, P. Mason and J. Ziriax. Volumetric Manipulation for Dosimetry Simulations. Poster Presentation at: Bioelectromagnetics 2005, Dublin, Ireland, June 19-24, 2005. here

V. Singh and D. Silver, Interactive Volume Manipulation with Selective Rendering for Improved Visualization, IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization, October 2004.

S. Islam, S. Dipankar, D. Silver and M. Chen, Spatial and Temporal Splitting of Scalar Fields in Volume Graphics, IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization, October 2004.

Real-Time Volume Manipulation by V. Singh, D. Silver and N. Cornea
Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Volume Graphics, July 2003

Spatial Transfer Functions - A Unified Approach to Specifying Deformation in Volume Modeling and Animation by M. Chen, D. Silver, A. S. Winter, V. Singh and N. Cornea
Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Volume Graphics, July 2003

Animating Volumetric Models by N. Gagvani and D. Silver
Graphical Models, (Academic Press), March 2002

Unwinding the Colon by D. Silver and N. Gagvani,
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) 2002

Shape Based Culling for Volume Graphics by D. Silver, H. Sundar and N. Gagvani
13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Poster Session Presentation, 2002

Animating the Visible Human Dataset by N. Gagvani and D. Silver
Proceedings for The Visible Human Project Conference, 2000

Parameter Controlled Volume Thinning by N. Gagvani and D. Silver
Graphical Models and Image Processing, Academic Press, p 149-164, vol 61 number 3, 1999.

Realistic Volume Animation with Alias by N. Gagvani
_{Proceedings of International Workshop
on Volume Graphics, March 1999}

Ray Casting Architectures for Volume Visualization by H. Ray, H, Pfister, D. Silver, T.A. Cook
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 5(4), September 1999.

A Memory Effecient Architecture for Real-Time Parallel and Perspective Direct Volume Rendering by H.Ray and D.Silver
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH/ Eurographics Workshop, 1999

Volume Animation using the Skeleton Tree by Nikhil Gagvani, D. Kenchammana-Hosekote and D. Silver.
Proceedings ACM/IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization '98, RTP, North Carolina, pp. 47-53. 1998.

Feature Tracking and Extraction

J. Liang, H. Liu, D. Silver and M. Parashar, Rule-based Visualization in a Computational Steering Collaboratory, International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS '04), June 2004.

J. Chen, D. Silver and J. Liang, The Feature Tree: Visualizing Feature Tracking in Distributed AMR Datasets, IEEE Parallel Visualization and Graphics Symposium, October 2003.

Real Time Feature Extraction and Tracking in a Computational Steering Environment . J. Chen, D. Silver and M. Parashar

Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Symposium, HPC2003, Society for Modeling and Simulation International, San Diego, pp 155-160, March 2003

Distributed Feature Extraction and Tracking, J. Chen, D. Silver,
SPIE, Visualization and Data Analysis Symposium, January 2002.

Visualizing Time Varying Distributed Datasets by D. Silver and Y. Kusurkar
Proceedings of Visualization Development Environment, 2000

Tracking Scalar Features in Unstructured Datasets by D. Silver and Xin Wang
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '98, 1998

Visualizing Evolving Scalar Phenomenon by D. Silver and Xin
Journal of Future Generations of Computer System, 586, 1998

Tracking and Visualizing Turbulent 3D Features by D. Silver and X. Wang
IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 3, No 2, June 1997

Volume Tracking by D. Silver and Xin Wang
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 1996, San Francisco, CA, 1996

Other: Perception, Oceanography, fMRI

K. Santilli, K. Bemis, D. Silver, P. Rona, and J. Datsur, Generating Realistic Images from Hydrothermal Plume Data, IEEE Visualization 2004 Conference Proceedings, October 2004

Maria Velez, Deborah Silver, Marilyn Tremaine. Understanding Visualization through Spatial Ability Differences. to appear in - Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005. Minneapolis, Min. 23-28 Oct. 2005.

P. Rona, K. Bemis, D. Silver and C. Jones. Acoustic Imaging, Visualization and Quantification of Buoyant Hydrothermal Plumes in the Ocean, Marine Geophysical Researches 23: 147-168, 2002.

P. Rona , D. Jackson, K. Bemis, C. Jones, K. Mitsuzawa, D. Palmer, and D. Silver, Acoustic Advances Study of Sea Floor Hydrothermal Flow, EOS, Transactions, AGU, Vol 83, Number 44, October 2002.

K. Bemis, P. Rona, D. Jackson, C. Jones, D. Silver and K. Mitsuzawa, A Comparison of Black Smoker Hydrothermal Plume Behavior at Monolith Vent and at Clam Acres Vent Field: Dependence on Source Configuration, Mar. Geophys. Res, 2002.

Skeleton Based Shape Matching and Retrieval by H. Sundar, D. Silver, N. Gagvani and S. Dickinson
Shape Modelling and Applications Conference, SMI 2003, Seoul, Korea, May 2003.

Shape Based Matching for Visualization by D. Silver, H. Sundar and N. Gagvani
[VIZLAB Technical Report, CAIP Center, Rutgers University, February 2002]

Spatial Naviagtion of Media Streams by Steele Arbeeny and Deborah Silver
ACM Multimedia Conference, poster presentation, 2001

Feature Extraction and Iconic Visualization. T. Walsum, F.Post, D. Silver and F. Post . IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics, July 1996.

Flow Visualization , D. Silver, F. Post and A. Sarjadan, Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Volume 7, 1999. ed J. Webster.

Object Oriented Visualization. D. Silver, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 15, Number 3, May 1995.

Extending Object-Oriented Databases with Problem Solving and Visualization, P. Sheu and D. Silver, Computers & Graphics, Volume 17, Number 4, pp. 447-455, 1993.

Quantifying Visualizations for Reduced Modeling in Nonlinear Science: Extracting Structures from Data Sets. D. Silver and N. Zabusky, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Volume 4, Number 1, March 1993.

Acoustic imaging of seafloor hydrothermal flow regimes, Rona, P.A., K.G. Bemis, D.R. Jackson, T. Wen, C. Jones, J.G. Dworski, D.R. Kenchammana-hoskote, and D. Silver, EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Un., 78: F685, 1997.

Acoustic Imaging and Visualization of Plumes Discharging from Black Smoker Vents on the Deep Seafloor.
P. A. Rona, K. Bemis, D. Kenchammana-Hosekote, D. Silver. IEEE Visualization '98, October, 1998.

PHD Thesis

Visualizing and Tracking Features in 3D Time varying Datasets by Xin Wang.

Spatial Naviagtion of Media Streams by S. Arbeeny

Parameter Controlled Skeletonization - A Framework for Volume Graphics by Nikhil Gagvani

Real Time Ray Casting Architectures for Volume Graphics and Volume Rendering by Harvey Ray

MS Thesis

A User Interface Design for Feature Extraction and Tracking with Application to Oceanography by Chengwei Feng

Faster Reconstruction Algorithm for Volume Animation by Kundan Sen

Skeletons and Volume Thinning in Visualization by Nikhil Gagvani

An Interactive Tool for Visualizing Features in 3D Time-Varying Datasets by Tilottama Roy

An Interactive Volume Animation Toolkit by Arindam Bhattacharya

Parallel Feature Extraction for Structured and Unstructured Grids by Yashodan Kusurkar