A Framework for GPU-accelerated Exploration of Massive Time-varying Rectilinear Scalar Volumes

dc.contributor.authorMarton, Fabioen_US
dc.contributor.authorAgus, Marcoen_US
dc.contributor.authorGobbetti, Enricoen_US
dc.contributor.editorGleicher, Michael and Viola, Ivan and Leitte, Heikeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-02T18:27:15Z
dc.date.available2019-06-02T18:27:15Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractWe introduce a novel flexible approach to spatiotemporal exploration of rectilinear scalar volumes. Our out-of-core representation, based on per-frame levels of hierarchically tiled non-redundant 3D grids, efficiently supports spatiotemporal random access and streaming to the GPU in compressed formats. A novel low-bitrate codec able to store into fixed-size pages a variable-rate approximation based on sparse coding with learned dictionaries is exploited to meet stringent bandwidth constraint during time-critical operations, while a near-lossless representation is employed to support high-quality static frame rendering. A flexible high-speed GPU decoder and raycasting framework mixes and matches GPU kernels performing parallel object-space and image-space operations for seamless support, on fat and thin clients, of different exploration use cases, including animation and temporal browsing, dynamic exploration of single frames, and high-quality snapshots generated from near-lossless data. The quality and performance of our approach are demonstrated on large data sets with thousands of multi-billion-voxel frames.en_US
dc.description.number3
dc.description.sectionheadersBest Paper Award Nominees
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume38
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13671
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages53-66
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13671
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13671
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectHuman
dc.subjectcentered computing
dc.subjectScientific visualization
dc.subjectComputing methodologies
dc.subjectComputer graphics
dc.subjectGraphics systems and interfaces
dc.titleA Framework for GPU-accelerated Exploration of Massive Time-varying Rectilinear Scalar Volumesen_US
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