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Procedural Image Processing for Visualization

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We present a novel Procedural Image Processing (PIP) method and demonstrate its applications in visualization. PIP modulates the sampling positions of a conventional image processing kernel (e.g. edge detection filter) through a procedural perturbation function. When properly designed, PIP can produce a variety of styles for edge depiction, varying on width, solidity, and pattern, etc. In addition to producing artistic stylization, in this paper we demonstrate that PIP can be employed to achieve various visualization tasks, such as contour enhancement, focus+context visualization, importance driven visualization and uncertainty visualization.

PIP produces unique effects that often either cannot be easily achieved through conventional filters or would require multiple pass filtering. PIP perturbation functions are either defined by analytical expressions or encoded in pre-generated images. We leverage the programmable fragment shader of the current graphics hardware for achieving the operations in real-time.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, MN, 55455, USA

    Xiaoru Yuan & Baoquan Chen

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Intel, 95052, Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Ara Nefian

  7. University of California, 430, Computer Science Building, 92697-3425, Irvine, CA, USA

    Gopi Meenakshisundaram

  8. Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization, P.O. Box

    Valerio Pascucci

  9. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech

    Jiri Zara

  10. Rockwell Scientific, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, 91360, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

    Jose Molineros

  11. Computer Graphics Group, Bielefeld University, D-33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Holger Theisel

  12. Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Tom Malzbender

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Yuan, X., Chen, B. (2006). Procedural Image Processing for Visualization. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11919476_6

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