• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.634-636
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• 2000

기존의 병렬 볼륨 렌더링 방법들은 프로세서간의 발생하는 많은 통신량 때문에 통신 속도가 매우 빠른 병렬컴퓨터를 이용하였고 통신속도가 느린 분산 환경에서는 구현이 불가능해 보였다. 또한 가시화하려는 볼륨 데이터도 점점 방대해지고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 통신 속도에 구애받지 앉을뿐더러 매우 큰 볼륨데이터를 다루는 병렬/분산 볼륨 렌더링을 제안한다. 본 방법은 고비용을 필요로 하는 원격 메모리 접근 대신에 압축을 기반으로 하여 필요한 데이터를 지역 메모리에서 빠르게 복원함으로써 좋은 성능향상(speedup)을 나타낸다. 이것은 각 프로세서가 전체 볼륨 데이터를 모두 적재하고 있다는 것을 의미한다. 다라서 렌더링 과정중에 발생하는 프로세서간의 통신을 최소화할 수 있었고, 이런 방식은 높은 통신 비용으로 효율적 병렬/분산 처리가 힘든 분산 메모리 병렬 컴퓨터나 PC/워크스테이션 클러스터상에서 매우 적합하다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.705-716
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• 2002

This paper proposes a method which visualizes MRI head data in 3 dimensions with direct volume rendering. Though surface rendering is usually used for MRI data visualization, it has some limits of displaying little speckles because it loses the information of the speckles in the surfaces while acquiring the information. Direct volume rendering has ability of displaying little speckles, but it doesn't treat MRI data because of the data features of MRI. In this paper, we try to visualize MRI head data in 3 dimensions as follows. First, we separate the brain region from the head region of MRI head data, next increase the pixel level of the brain region, then combine the brain region with the increased pixel level and the head region without brain region, last visualizes the combined MRI head data with direct volume rendering. We segment the brain region from head region based on histogram threshold, morphology operations and snakes algorithm. The proposed segmentation method shows 91~95% similarity with a hand segmentation. The method rather clearly visualizes the organs of the head in 3 dimensions.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2002

In order to widely use volume rendering technology in practical fields, a user should be able to control the classification parameter interactively and extract a meaningful information easily from the 3D data as fast as it can be. Previous work on an accelerating volume rendering reconstructs an isotropic volume from an anisotropic one and classifies in pre-processing time and then renders the classified volume rapidly in run time. But, this traditional step may result in long pre-processing time and no real-time feedback. In this paper, we present an efficient classification and rendering method that allows a user to set the opacity transfer function interactively at rendering time on a personal computer without special-purpose hardware.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.01a
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• pp.361-364
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• 2023

볼륨 렌더링은 3D 밀도 데이터를 가시화 할 때 활용되는 기술로써 이 알고리즘에서 중요한 것은 렌더링 시간 단축이며, 본 논문에서는 이 계산시간을 효율적으로 개선시킬 수 있는 방법을 제시한다. 렌더링의 처리시간은 탐색하는 횟수에 따라 결과 차이가 발생하지만, 탐색 횟수가 적을 경우 렌더링의 품질이 저하되고 반대인 경우에는 화질의 표현력은 높으나 많은 처리시간이 소요된다. 따라서 화질이 떨어지지 않는 최소의 탐색 방법이 요구되므로 본 논문에서는 밀도의 탐색 최적화와 시간별 밀도가 존재하는 위치를 예측하여 계산을 효율적으로 처리 할 수 있는 PyCUDA 프레임워크에 대해서 소개한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.11
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• pp.655-662
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• 2003

In some volume visualization fields such as medical imaging, anisotropic volume data are more common than isotropic ones. In this paper, we propose an efficient rendering method for anisotropic volume data, which directly computes the intensity of intermediate samples by interpolating the intensity of two corresponding voxels on consecutive slices. Unlike density interpolation method, it does not require a preprocessing step for generating intermediate slices or additional memory for storing them. Additionally, we propose an adaptive intermediate voxel insertion method that avoids overblurring on object surfaces. This may occur when we render high frequency areas using the intensity interpolation method. Using these methods, we can improve the rendering speed without sacrificing image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1418-1420
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• 2013

GPU는 범용 CPU와는 달리 수백 개의 코어로 이루어져 병렬처리에 특화된 형태로 발전되어 왔으며, 이미지 및 동영상 처리, 유체 역학 시뮬레이션, 의료, 지진 분석 등 점차 많은 영역에서 사용 되고 있다. 최근에는 GPU를 이용하여 볼륨 렌더링을 가속화하는 많은 기법들이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 볼륨 렌더링을 가속화하기 위한 GPU 기반의 쉐아-스큐 워프 기법을 제안한다. 여기서는 GPU를 이용하여 효율적인 메모리 사용, 코어의 활성화, 뱅크 충돌 감소 기법을 이용하여 기존의 CPU 기반 볼륨 렌더링 기법과 비교하여 빠른 시간에 동일한 결과물을 생성한다.

• 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.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.5 no.12
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• pp.677-684
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• 2016

For realistic rendering volume to calculate the light effects as well as the shade is essential. In order to produce the high quality of the resulting image, it is necessary to represent a global illumination, and it should be considered an indirect effect of the direct impact and scattering of light. It requires a lot of resources in order to perform this operation and, in particular, is very expensive when large amounts of data to be rendered as a volume data is consumed. In this paper, we generate a scatterer template according to the physical laws for each material. Considering that each object having material property stores photons of the template based on the Lambert illumination model. When the volume rendering in this paper, using the photon is stored in the template, based on the voxel to be sampled within the examination volume occluded, and it represents the global illumination of the scattering. Because the materials produced by the template requires a less resource only if comprised of a complex material, a simple operation can be expressed within the scattering volume at a low cost through.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.971-981
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• 2006

As shear-warp volume rendering is the fastest rendering method among the software based approaches, image quality is not good as that of other high-quality rendering methods. In this paper, we propose two methods to improve the image quality of shear-warp volume rendering without sacrificing computational efficiency. First, supersampling is performed in intermediate image space. We propose an efficient method to transform between volume and image coordinates at the arbitrary ratio. Second, we utilize pre-integrated rendering technique for shear-warp rendering. We propose new data structure called overlapped min-max map. Using this structure, empty space leaping can be performed so that we can maintain the rendering speed even though pre-integrated rendering is applied. Consequently, shear-warp rendering can generate high-qualify images comparable to those generated by the ray-casting without degrading speed.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.53-62
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• 2012

Visualizing a volume dataset with ray-casting which of visualization methods provides high quality image. However it spends too much time for rendering because the size of volume data are huge. Recently, various researches have been proposed to accelerate GPU-based volume rendering to solve these problems. In this paper, we propose an efficient GPU-based empty space skipping to accelerate volume ray-casting using octree traversal. This method creates min-max octree and searches empty space using vertex splitting. It minimizes the bounding polyhedron by eliminating empty space found in the octree traveral step. The rendering results of our method are identical to those of previous GPU-based volume ray-casting, with the advantage of faster run-time because of using minimized bounding polyhedron.