• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.25-32
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• 2021

Direct Volume Rendering(DVR) renders by projecting data into a two-dimensional space without calculating the volume surfaces. In DVR, the transfer function(TF) assigns light properties such as color and transparency to the volume. However, it takes a long time for beginners to manipulate TF to understand volume data and assign colors. This paper proposes an approach to colorize the volume using sample images for intuitive volume rendering. We also discuss color extraction methods using K-means clustering.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.29-40
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• 2018

Direct volume rendering (DVR) is a commonly used method to visualize inner structures in 3D volumetric datasets. However, conventional volume rendering on a 2D display lacks depth perception due to dimensionality reduction caused by ray casting. In this work, we investigate how emerging Virtual Reality (VR) can improve the usability of direct volume rendering. We developed real-time high-resolution DVR system in virtual reality, and measures the usefulness of volume rendering with improved depth perception via a user study conducted by 38 participants. The result indicates that virtual reality significantly improves the usability of DVR by allowing better depth perception.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.91-93
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• 2001

볼륨 렌더링(Volume Rendering)은 과학, 의학, 공학 등의 분야에서 3차원 볼륨 데이터(Volume Date)를 효과적으로 시각화(Visualization)하는 목적으로 널리 사용되고 있으며 고화질 영상 요구로 인해 3차원 볼륨 데이터의 크기는 점차 대용량화되어 가는 추세이다. 이러한 대용량 데이터의 고성능 처리를 위해서는 병렬입출력이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 병렬볼륨 렌더링에 최적화된 병렬화일시스템 PBS(Parallel Block Server)을 제안한다. PBS는 고성능 입출력 제공을 위해서 데이터입출력에 대한 응용 프로그램의 집적 통제를 위한 다양한 기능을 제공하도록 설계되어 있다. 이러한 직접통제의 단점인 복잡한 인터페이스 문제를 해결하기 위해서 볼륨 렌더링에 최적화된 데이터 입출력 전략을 자동화시킨 PBS 기반 라이브러리 VRPIO(Volume Rendering Parallel Input Output)를 제공한다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.433-439
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• 2000

Volume rendering is a powerful tool for visualizing sampled scalar values from 3D data without modeling geometric primitives to the data. The volume rendering can describe the surface-detail of a complex object. Owing to this characteristic. volume rendering has been used to visualize medical data. The size of volume data is usually too big to handle in real time. Recently, various volume rendering algorithms have been proposed in order to reduce the rendering time. However, most of the proposed algorithms are not proper for fast rendering of large non-coded volume data. In this paper, we propose a block-based fast volume rendering algorithm using a shear-warp factorization for non-coded volume data. The algorithm performs volume rendering by using the organ segmentation data as well as block-based 3D volume data, and increases the rendering speed for large non-coded volume data. The proposed algorithm is evaluated by rendering 3D X-ray CT body images and MR head images.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.75-83
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• 2019

Direct volume rendering is a widely used method for visualizing three-dimensional volume data such as medical images. This paper proposes a method for applying depth-of-field effects to volume ray-casting to enable more realistic depth-of-filed rendering in direct volume rendering. The proposed method exploits a camera model based on the human perceptual model and can obtain realistic images with a limited number of rays using jittered lens sampling. It also enables interactive exploration of volume data by on-the-fly calculating depth-of-field in the GPU pipeline without preprocessing. In the experiment with various data including medical images, we demonstrated that depth-of-field images with better depth perception were generated 2.6 to 4 times faster than the conventional method.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.491-498
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• 2002

In medical visualization fields, 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 conventional rendering method, it does not require a preprocessing step for generating intermediate slices or additional memory for storing them. In order to evaluate the validity and performance of our method, we applied the method to shear-warp rendering algorithm. Experimental results show that this method improves rendering speed without significantly sacrificing the image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.181-183
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• 2003

MRI 나 CT 스캔에 의해 생성된 볼륨 데이터는 일반적으로 설러 샘플 지점에서의 이산적인 수치 데이터 일뿐 데이터 상호간의 함수적 연속성은 제공되지 않고 있다. 이러한 데이터로부터 우리가 원하는 임계값(threshold)에 의한 등가면(isosurface)을 렌더링하는 방법은 보통 Marching Cube에서처럼 많은 다각형을 생성해서 렌더링 하는 방법에 의존해 왔다. 그러나 원하는 등가면을 직접 표현할 수 있는 함수가 존재할 경우 많은 양의 다각형을 추출하고 보관해야 하는 시공간적 부담이 없게 된다. 본 논문에서는 각 Cube별로 정의되는 Tri-linear Interpolation 함수를 기반으로 하여 Interval Method 에 의한 등가면 렌더링 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.441-449
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• 2000

Binary volume data has its widespread use in the application of color volume rendering and surgical simulation system where gray-scale volume is inappropriate. For the efficient representation of binary volume, this paper proposes a new data structure - the Slice-based Binary Shell (SBS) - along with its rendering algorithm. Since SBS stores the minimal set of surface voxels in slice order and supports the direct computation of voxel coordinates, it shows high efficiency for rendering multiple objects. The rendering algorithm of SBS running on a PC with no specialized hardware renders more than one hundred binary objects in a second.

• 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.