Interactive Processing and Visualization of Image Data for Biomedical and Life Science Applications

BACKGROUND:Applications in biomedical science and life science produce large data sets using increasingly powerful imaging devices and computer simulations. It is becoming …

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Oliver Staadt

Automatic Feature Modeling Techniques for Volume Segmentation Applications

In many volume segmentation and visualization tasks, the ability to correctly identify the boundary surface of each volumetric feature of interest in the data is desirable. This …

runzhen-huang

Kinetic Sweep and Prune for Multi-Body Continuous Motion

We propose an acceleration scheme for real-time many-body dynamic collision detection. We kinetize the sweep and prune method for many-body collision pruning, extending its …

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Dan Coming, PhD (UC Davis)

Enabling Scientific Workflows in Virtual Reality

To advance research and improve the scientific return on data collection and interpretation efforts in the geosciences, we have developed methods of interactive visualization, with …

oliver-kreylos

A Foveal Inset for Large Display Environments

We introduce a system that adds a foveal inset to large-scale projection displays. The effective resolution of the foveal inset projection is higher than the original display …

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Oliver Staadt

A Foveal Inset for Large Display Environments

We introduce a system that adds a foveal inset to large-scale projection displays. The effective resolution of the foveal inset projection is higher than the original display …

benjamin-a.-ahlborn

Kinetic Sweep and Prune for Collision Detection

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Dan Coming, PhD (UC Davis)

Multimedia Integration into the Blue-c API

In this article, we present the blue-c application programming interface (API) and discuss some of its performance characteristics. The blue-c API is a software toolkit for …

martin-naef

3D Warp Brush: Interactive Free-Form Modeling on the Responsive Workbench

We introduce the 3D warp brush, a method for interactive shape modeling in a immersive virtual reality environment. 3D warp brushes are implicitly-definedtools that operate on …

yong-joo-kil

Blue-c API: A Multimedia and 3D Video Enhanced Toolkit for Collaborative VR and Telepresence

In this paper we present the blue-c application programming interface, a software toolkit for media-rich, collaborative, immersive virtual reality applications. The blue-c API …

martin-naef

Blue-c: A Spatially Immersive Display and 3D Video Portal for Telepresence

We present blue-c, a new immersive projection and 3D video acquisition environment for virtual design and collaboration. It combines simultaneous acquisition of multiple live video …

markus-gross

The Blue-c Distributed Scene Graph

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The Blue-c Distributed Scene Graph

In this paper we present a distributed scene graph architecture for use in the blue-c, a novel collaborative immersive virtual environment. We extend the widely used OpenGL …

martin-naef

Spatialized Audio Rendering for Immersive Virtual Environments

We present a spatialized audio rendering system for the use in immersive virtual environments. The system is optimized for rendering a sufficient number of dynamically moving sound …

martin-naef

Fast Multiresolution Surface Meshing

We present a new method for adaptive surface meshing and triangulation which controls the local level-of-detail of the surface approximation by local spectral estimates. These …

markus-h.-gross