高质量的三维纹理硬件体绘制

与光线投射法相比,传统的3D纹理体绘制算法通常难以产生高质量的图像。为了增强渲染图像的真实感与质量,在基于GPU（Graphics Processing Unit）的三维纹理体绘制过程中以交互的速率实现了体阴影效果,并考虑现实图像合成中的可视化感知,提出将基于GPU的高动态范围色调映射技术应用到体绘制得到的结果图片中。最后对一些体数据集进行绘制,实验表明这些技术较好地解决了传统纹理绘制方法的缺点,提高了图像的质量。     

一种基于蒙特卡罗方法的体绘制算法*

为解决医学图像三维可视化中大规模体数据显示速度与成像质量问题,引入一种基于蒙特卡罗方法的新颖体绘制算法。本算法根据给出的概率密度函数从随机样本点或其子集中选取一个点阵来进行绘制,主要适用于对大规模体数据集的有效可视化。另外,使用渐进细化的方法在图像质量和交互性上进行权衡折中,以适应实时要求。实验结果表明,在最终图像分辨率固定的情况下,本算法的时间复杂度和空间复杂度都比之前的算法要好,成像质量也满足实时绘制要求,可以在实际应用中使用。     

Compression-Based 3D Texture Mapping for Real-Time Rendering

While 2D texture mapping is one of the most effective of the rendering techniques that make 3D objects appear visually interesting, it often suffers from visual artifacts produced when 2D image patterns are wrapped onto the surfaces of objects with arbitrary shapes. On the other hand, 3D texture mapping generates highly natural visual effects in which objects appear carved from lumps of materials rather than laminated with thin sheets as in 2D texture mapping. Storing 3D texture images in a table for fast mapping computations, instead of evaluating procedures on the fly, however, has been considered impractical due to the extremely high memory requirement. In this paper, we present a new effective method for 3D texture mapping designed for real-time rendering of polygonal models. Our scheme attempts to resolve the potential texture memory problem by compressing 3D textures using a wavelet-based encoding method. The experimental results on various nontrivial 3D textures and polygonal models show that high compression rates are achieved with few visual artifacts in the rendered images and a small impact on rendering time. The simplicity of our compression-based scheme will make it easy to implement practical 3D texture mapping in software/hardware rendering systems including real-time 3D graphics APIs such as OpenGL and Direct3D.     

基于体平滑的体绘制纹理伪边界消除算法

直接体绘制能够清楚的显示三维数据场的内部信息,是科学可视化中非常重要的一类方法。其中,基于二维纹理映射的三维数据直接体绘制方法具有绘制速度快、可交互性强的优点。其基本思路是将三维数据体在时间或深度方向形成一组水平纹理切片,通过这些切片的纹理贴图,实现三维数据体的体绘制,在交互性和资源消耗之间取得了较好的平衡。本文针对基于二维纹理映射的直接体绘制方法中在透明与不透明边界产生阶梯状条纹的伪边界问题,提出了一种基于体平滑的算法。该算法通过在透明数据与不透明数据的边界进行体平滑,使采样过程中缺失的数据表现到抽样的切片上,从而在最终图像生成阶段淡化甚至消除阶梯状条纹伪边界。实验结果表明,相对于传统二维纹理映射方法,本算法实现体绘制效果平滑,提高了绘制效果。     

Hardware Assisted Fast Volume Rendering with Boundary Enhancement

In this paper,a new volume rendering method with boundary enhancement is presented.The boundary is extracted and represented by surfaces explicitly,Then,using 3D texture mapping and graphics acceleation hardware,the volume data can be rendered with controllable boundary shading effect almost in real time.Test shows that this method is 4-5 times faster than the previous methods.Moreover,it can also be extended to render the surfaces and the volumetric data together interactively.     

一个新的基于3D纹理映射及Shear-warp变换的快速体绘制方法

介绍了一个新的基于纹理映射及Shear-warp变换的快速体绘制方法。所提出的方法吸收了纹理映射方法的长处，通过纹理硬件的加速，并在纹理装载时提出了可适应性的纹理分割方法，使该算法不受纹理内存的限制。在进行纹理映射时，通过剪切（Shear）变换和三维图象的分割，加快给制速度。与多种经典的快速体绘制方法进行测试比较，该方法达到了交互的效果和更高的绘制速度。     

基于动态纹理载入的大规模数据场体绘制

为克服图形硬件对传统纹理映射体绘制的限制,提出了一种在普通PC上进行大规模数据场体绘制的有效方法。该方法中,体数据被划分为合适大小的数据块,这些数据块被动态的载入图形硬件,并利用3维纹理映射进行绘制。在整个绘制过程中,仅有一个数据块存储在图形硬件上,有效地提高了对大规模体数据的绘制能力。同时,充分利用目前PC图形硬件成熟的可编程特性,通过对梯度的实时计算来减少在传统纹理映射体绘制中巨大的内存消耗。实验结果表明,该方法在普通PC上可以对超过纹理内存容量的大规模体数据进行交互式体绘制。     

基于2D多纹理映射的三维医学图像体绘制技术的改进

提出了一种基于寄存器合成器和多纹理（Multi—Texture）的体绘制方法，它能够进行三线性插值采样，并且能够使用近似归一化的插值梯度进行明暗处理。     

Multiresolution volume visualization with a texture-based octree

Although 3D texture-based volume rendering guarantees image quality almost interactively, it is difficult to maintain an interactive rate when the technique has to be exploited on large datasets. In this paper, we propose a new texture memory representation and a management policy that substitute the classical one-texel per voxel approach for a hierarchical approach. The hierarchical approach benefits nearly homogeneous regions and regions of lower interest. The proposed algorithm is based on a simple traversal of the octree representation of the volume data. Driven by a user-defined image quality, defined as a combination of data homogeneity and importance, a set of octree nodes (the cut) is selected to be rendered. The degree of accuracy applied for the representation of each one of the nodes of the cut in the texture memory is set independently according to the user-defined parameters. The variable resolution texture model obtained reduces the texture memory size and thus texture swapping, improving rendering speed.     

应用于传递函数设定的交互式体绘制工具

传递函数是体绘制过程中用以定出体数据与光学特征的对应关系,因此,传递函数的设定对成像质量有着直接的影响,文章提出一应用于传递函数设定、简单且有效的交互式体绘制工具,由于二维纹理硬件在通用的个人计算机上被普遍使用,因而该工具采用基于二维纹理硬件的体绘制方法,利用本工具,用户能根据体数据的直方图来交互地分别设定R、G、B和A四种传递函数,以定出体数据与光学特征的对应关系,并获得实时的反馈视觉信息(绘制结果),该工具亦提供一虚拟轨迹球让用户交互地改变观察体数据的视点,用户不但可以交互地控制放大或缩小比率来绘制体数据,还可以选择采用光照或由多重纹理实现的三线性插值来获得不同的绘制效果,该文描述开发此工具的各种技术,并给出利用此工具得到的一些绘制结果。     

Interactive wireless virtual colonoscopy

We present an interactive virtual colon navigation system on a PDA that is a client-server system over a wireless network. For improving the quality of the rendering results on the PDA, the overall rendering speed, and the user interactivity, we propose three novel methods and adapt a GPU-based direct volume rendering technique. Using these proposed methods, our system can support approximately a two times faster navigation speed and 17 percent better PSNR than previous remote visualization methods with a 512×512×361 volumetric colon CT data using a PDA device over 802.11b wireless network.     

视点相关排序的硬件Occlusion查询MC算法

移动立方体(MC)算法是一种高质量的面绘制方法,要对大量三角面片实现实时绘制和交互操作,因而速度慢,交互性不好;提出一种方法利用显卡硬件实现Occlusion查询,将MC算法生成三角面片分割标记到不同的cube后,基于视点距离对cube进行先后Occlusion查询,检测并剔除对最终图像没有贡献的三角面片;实验数据表明,提出的方法对大规模体数据集进行表面绘制,绘制速度和交互性都得到了明显提高.方法应用在"高级三维PACS工作站"系统上,进行医学CT图像的三维重建表面绘制,取得了良好的效果.     

Real-time visualization of large volume datasets on standard PC hardware

In medical area, interactive three-dimensional volume visualization of large volume datasets is a challenging task. One of the major challenges in graphics processing unit (GPU)-based volume rendering algorithms is the limited size of texture memory imposed by current GPU architecture. We attempt to overcome this limitation by rendering only visible parts of large CT datasets. In this paper, we present an efficient, high-quality volume rendering algorithm using GPUs for rendering large CT datasets at interactive frame rates on standard PC hardware. We subdivide the volume dataset into uniform sized blocks and take advantage of combinations of early ray termination, empty-space skipping and visibility culling to accelerate the whole rendering process and render visible parts of volume data. We have implemented our volume rendering algorithm for a large volume data of 512 x 304 x 1878 dimensions (visible female), and achieved real-time performance (i.e., 3-4 frames per second) on a Pentium 4 2.4GHz PC equipped with NVIDIA Geforce 6600 graphics card ( 256 MB video memory). This method can be used as a 3D visualization tool of large CT datasets for doctors or radiologists.     

用图象空间为序的体绘制技术显示三维数据场

本文首先简要介绍了应用体绘制技术显示三维空间数据场的基本原理，接着，提出并实现了经过改进的图象空间为序的体绘制算法，该算法以重构三维空间数据场代替了原有的重构光亮度场的方法，从而提高了图象质量并节约了存储空间。最后，介绍了用图象空间为序的体会 制显示多等值面的算法及其华，讨论了提高该算法效途径。     

Visualization of vector fields using seed LIC and volume rendering

Line integral convolution (LIC) is a powerful texture-based technique for visualizing vector fields. Due to the high computational expense of generating 3D textures and the difficulties of effectively displaying the result, LIC has most commonly been used to depict vector fields in 2D or over a surface in 3D. We propose new methods for more effective volume visualization of three-dimensional vector fields using LIC: 1) we present a fast method for computing volume LIC textures that exploits the sparsity of the input texture. 2) We propose the use of a shading technique, called limb darkening, to reveal the depth relations among the field lines. The shading effect is obtained simply by using appropriate transfer functions and, therefore, avoids using expensive shading techniques. 3) We demonstrate how two-field visualization techniques can be used to enhance the visual information describing a vector field. The volume LIC textures are rendered using texture-based rendering techniques, which allows interactive exploration of a vector field.     

复杂背景下彩色数字图像分割算法研究

为了提高复杂背景下彩色数字图像分割的准确率,减少噪声对图像处理的干扰,尽可能的缩短运行时间,需要对复杂背景下彩色数字图像分割算法进行研究。当前图像分割算法在彩色数字图像分割的过程中,仅仅考虑了图像像素的亮度值,没有考虑其空间特征,存在计算的复杂性过大等缺陷,影响彩色数字图像处理效果。为此,提出了一种基于随机权重粒子群的复杂背景下彩色数字图像分割算法。该算法先采用多尺度均匀滤波方法,对复杂背景下彩色数据图像进行划分,其中包含噪声和不含噪声的像素点的亮度值、结构元素以及局部区域内的图像像素加权亮度密度特征。采用多段图分割获取彩色数字图像的优化分割,在平滑项中代入彩色数字图像梯度信息,对彩色数字图像分割结果中的弱边界进行剔除,从而实现准确的彩色数字图像分割。实验仿真证明,所提算法增加了彩色数字图像分割的对比度和信噪比,提高了复杂背景下彩色数字图像分割的准确性。     

High-quality cardiac image dynamic visualization with feature enhancement and virtual surgical tool inclusion

Traditional approaches for rendering segmented volumetric data sets usually deliver unsatisfactory results, such as insufficient frame rate, low image quality, and intermixing artifacts. In this paper, we introduce a novel “color encoding” technique, based on graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated raycasting and post-color attenuated classification, to address this problem. The result is an algorithm that can generate artifact-free dynamic volumetric images in real time. Next, we present a pre-integrated volume shading algorithm to reduce graphics memory requirements and computational cost when compared to traditional shading methods. We also present a normal-adjustment technique to improve image quality at clipped planes. Furthermore, we propose a new algorithm for color and depth texture indexing that permits virtual solid objects, such as surgical tools, to be manipulated within the dynamically rendered volumetric cardiac images in real time. Finally, all these techniques are combined within an environment that permits real-time visualization, enhancement, and manipulation of dynamic cardiac data sets.     

Bump shading for volume textures

Bump mapping was introduced as a method of rendering realistic shading on bumpy surfaces, without actually rendering a full 3D model of the bumps. Bump mapping works well for parameterized surfaces. The authors interpret the 3D texture as a displacement function to be added to the surface position     

多视点成像的多边形模板法

该文提出一种对场景进行多视点成像的方法。该方法首先为场景中的多边形生成多边形模板，一个多边形模板，包括一条轮廓路径和一组纹条，而一个纹条是平行成像画的一个平面与多边形相交的直线段。由于纹条相对于不同视点的透视投影的变化是线性的，因此，绘制多边形时可以基于模板逐个纹条地处理，而不必按照传统的扫描转换方法逐个点地处理，绘制速度可以提高很多。同时，与视点无关的光照和纹理可以预先计算并保存在模板中，以便在成像时利用基于图像绘制的技术来生成高质量的图像。该方法中，视点可以放置在三维空间的任意位置，并且在场景漫游时可以根据视点位置自动地实现多分辨率绘制。     

Real-time feature-based image morphing for memory-efficient impostor rendering and animation on GPU

Real-time rendering of large animated crowds consisting of thousands of virtual humans is important for several applications including simulations, games, and interactive walkthroughs but cannot be performed using complex polygonal models at interactive frame rates. For that reason, methods using large numbers of precomputed image-based representations, called impostors, have been proposed. These methods take advantage of existing programmable graphics hardware to compensate for computational expense while maintaining visual fidelity. Thanks to these methods, the number of different virtual humans rendered in real time is no longer restricted by computational power but by texture memory consumed for the variety and discretization of their animations. This work proposes a resource-efficient impostor rendering methodology that employs image morphing techniques to reduce memory consumption while preserving perceptual quality, thus allowing higher diversity or resolution of the rendered crowds. Results of the experiments indicated that the proposed method, in comparison with conventional impostor rendering techniques, can obtain 38 % smoother animations or 87 % better appearance quality by reducing the number of key-frames required for preserving the animation quality via resynthesizing them with up to 92 % similarity on real time.