NDLI: Structure-Aware Lighting Design for Volume Visualization

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yubo Tao Hai Lin Feng Dong Chao Wang Clapworthy, G. Hujun Bao
Copyright Year	1995
Abstract	Lighting design is a complex, but fundamental, problem in many fields. In volume visualization, direct volume rendering generates an informative image without external lighting, as each voxel itself emits radiance. However, external lighting further improves the shape and detail perception of features, and it also determines the effectiveness of the communication of feature information. The human visual system is highly effective in extracting structural information from images, and to assist it further, this paper presents an approach to structure-aware automatic lighting design by measuring the structural changes between the images with and without external lighting. Given a transfer function and a viewpoint, the optimal lighting parameters are those that provide the greatest enhancement to structural information - the shape and detail information of features are conveyed most clearly by the optimal lighting parameters. Besides lighting goodness, the proposed metric can also be used to evaluate lighting similarity and stability between two sets of lighting parameters. Lighting similarity can be used to optimize the selection of multiple light sources so that different light sources can reveal distinct structural information. Our experiments with several volume data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of the structure-aware lighting design approach. It is well suited to use by novices as it requires little technical understanding of the rendering parameters associated with direct volume rendering.
Sponsorship	IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics IEEE Computer Society
Starting Page	2372
Ending Page	2381
Page Count	10
File Size	14255556
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10772626
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	12
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-12-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Lighting Measurement Light sources Rendering (computer graphics) Entropy Stability analysis Shape analysis volume rendering Automatic lighting design structural dissimilarity lighting similarity lighting stability
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Signal Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software

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