• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.12a
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• pp.169-172
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• 2000

Direct volume rendering has yet been restricted to high-end graphic workstations and special-purpose hardware, due to the large amount of trilinear interpolation, that are necessary to obtain high image quality. In this paper, we implemented the volume rendering techniques using the 2D-texture at the environment of standard PC hardware. In addition, we show how multi-texturing capabilities of modern PC graphics board are enable to volume rendering. Besides using extended OpenGL function, we improved pixel operations and rendering capacity.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.23-29
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• 2002

In this paper, we describe an implementation technique that extends the classification and shading capabilities offered by previously reported hardware-assisted volume rendering algorithms. In designing our rendering scheme, we exploited the programmable shader technology supported by the latest consumer PC graphics hardware. Our direct volume rendering technique enables to simultaneously display up to four materials, and to dynamically control gradient magnitude to emphasize or de-emphasize surface boundaries. It can easily create lighting effects such as light source attenuation, depth cueing, and multiple light sources that were often difficult to realize in previous hardware-assisted volume rendering.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.99-110
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• 2013

As volume rendering has been applied for computer game, the visualization of volume data with surface data in one scene has been required. Though a hybrid rendering of volume and surface data have been developed using the GPGPU functionality, computer games which run on low-level hardware are difficult to perform the hybrid rendering. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid rendering based on DirectX 9.0 and general hardware. We generate the layered depth images from surface data using a new method to reduce the depth complexity and generation time. Then, we perform the hybrid rendering using the layered depth images. In the rendering process, we suggest a new method to transform the coordinate system from a surface coordinate to a volume coorinate and propose an accelerated rendering technique. As the result, we can perform volume-surface hybrid rendering in an efficient way.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.55-64
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• 2012

The advantage of direct volume rendering is to visualize structures of interest in the volumetric data. However it is still difficult to simultaneously show interior and exterior structures. Recently, cone beam computed tomography(CBCT) has been used for dental diagnosis. Despite of its usefulness, there is a limitation in the detection of interior structures such as pulp and inferior alveolar nerve canal. In this paper, we propose an efficient volume rendering model for visualizing important interior as well as exterior structures of dental CBCT. It is based on the concept of illustrative volume rendering and enhances boundary and silhouette of structures. Moreover, we present a new method that assigns a different color to structures in the rear so as to distinguish the front ones from the rear ones. This proposed rendering model has been implemented on graphics hardware, so that we can achieve interactive performance. In addition, we can render teeth, pulp and canal without cumbersome segmentation step.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.21-28
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• 2001

As a result of the recent explosive growth of scientific data, extremely large volume datasets have become increasingly commonplace. While several texture-based volume rendering algorithms have been proposed, most of them focused on volumes smaller than the hardware's available texture memory. This paper presents a new parallel volume rendering scheme for very large static and time-varying data on a multipipe system architecture. Our scheme subdivides large volumes dynamically into smaller bricks, and assigns them adaptively to graphics pipes to minimize the costs of texture swapping. With the new method, Phong shaded images can be easily created by computing the gradients on the fly and using the color matrix feature of OpenGL. We report experimental results on an SGI Onyx2 for the various large datasets.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.1239-1247
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• 2005

Basically, objects are discriminated by transfer functions in volume rendering . However, in some cases objects cannot be discriminated only with transfer functions. In these cases, objects are pre-segmented with other methods, and visualized based on the segmentation information. In this paper we present a way of assigning per-object transparency in visualization of segmented volumes. Semi-transparent rendering is used to effectively give context information about the observed object. Per-object transparency can be used as a very effective visualization tool especially when it is difficult to adjust transfer functions to make the object semi-transparent. We present several interpretations of the meaning of per-object transparency, and corresponding variations of the algorithm. We show that efficient implementations for interactive use are possible, by presenting an implementation using general graphics hardware.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.3_4
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• pp.195-203
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• 2004

VolumePro is a real-time volume rendering hardware for consumer PCs. However it cannot be used for the applications requiring perspective projection such as virtual endoscopy since it provides only orthographic projection. Several methods have been presented to approximate perspective projection by decomposing a volume into slabs and applying successive parallel projection to thou. But it takes a lot of time since the entire region of every slab should be processed, which does not contribute to final image. In this paper, we propose an efficient perspective projection method that makes the use of several sub-volumes with cropping feature of VolumePro. It reduces the rendering time in comparison to slab-based method without image quality deterioration since it processes only the parts contained in the view frustum.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 2005

3D virtual endoscopy has been used as an alternative non-invasive procedure for visualization of hollow organs. However, due to computational complexity, this is a time-consuming procedure. In this paper, we propose a fast volume rendering algorithm based on perspective ray casting for virtual endoscopy. As a pre-processing step, the algorithm divides a volume into hierarchical blocks and classifies them into opaque or transparent blocks. Then, in the first step, we perform ray casting only for sub-sampled pixels on the image plane, and determine their pixel values and depth information. In the next step, by reducing the sub-sampling factor by half, we repeat ray casting for newly added pixels, and their pixel values and depth information are determined. Here, the previously obtained depth information is utilized to reduce the processing time. This step is recursively performed until a full-size rendering image is acquired. Experiments conducted on a PC show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the rendering time by 70- 80% for bronchus and colon endoscopy, compared with the brute-force ray casting scheme. Using the proposed algorithm, interactive volume rendering becomes more realizable in a PC environment without any specific hardware.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.316-324
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• 2007

Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) identifies patients' anatomical structures from MR or CT data sets. Recently, it becomes possible to generate MIP images with interactive speed by exploiting Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) even in large volume data sets. Generally, volume boundary plane is obliquely crossed with view-aligned texture plane in hardware-texture based volume rendering. Since the ray sampling distance is not increased at volume boundary in volume rendering, the aliasing problem occurs due to data loss. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to overcome this problem by Re-rendering volume boundary planes. Our method improves image quality to make dense distances between samples near volume boundary which is a high frequency area. Since it is only 6 clipping planes are additionally needed for Re-rendering, high quality rendering can be performed without sacrificing computational efficiency. Furthermore, our method couldbe applied to Minimum Intensity Projection (MinIP) volume rendering.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.181-187
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 3D 텍스쳐 매핑 하드웨어(texture mapping hardware)하에서 OpenGL를 이용하여 빠른 추출(classification) 및 음영처리(shading)를 가능하게 하는 직접 볼륨 렌더링(direct volume rendering) 방법을 제안한다. 추출과정을 위해 lookup table을 통해서 볼륨 데이터의 밀도값(density)으로부터 불투명도(opacity)값을 얻어내고, 법선 벡터 블렌딩(normal blending)방법을 제안하여 볼륨 크기에 상관없이 최종 이미지에서만 음영 처리 연산을 수행한다. 본 논문에서 제시된 볼륨 렌더링의 전과정이 그래픽스 하드웨어(graphics hardware)에서 이뤄지면, 음영처리 연산의 복잡도 감소로 인하여 상호 대화적인 볼륨 렌더링이 가능하다.