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Feature-Based Visualization of Multifields

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Feature-based techniques are one of the main categories of methods used in scientific visualization. Features are structures in a dataset that are meaningful within the scientific or engineering context of the dataset. Extracted features can be visualized directly, or they can be used indirectly for modifying another type of visualization. In multifield data, each of the component fields can be searched for features, but in addition, there can be features of the multifield which rely on information form several of its components and which cannot be found by searching in a single field. In this chapter we give a survey of feature-based visualization of multifields, taking both of these feature types into account.

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  1. UC Davis, Davis, USA

    Harald Obermaier

  2. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Ronald Peikert

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  1. School of Computing Scientific Computing and Imaging Institu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    Charles D. Hansen

  2. e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Min Chen

  3. School of Computing Scientific Computing and Imaging Institu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    Christopher R. Johnson

  4. Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, New York, New York, USA

    Arie E. Kaufman

  5. Fachbereich Informatik, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Hans Hagen

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Obermaier, H., Peikert, R. (2014). Feature-Based Visualization of Multifields. In: Hansen, C., Chen, M., Johnson, C., Kaufman, A., Hagen, H. (eds) Scientific Visualization. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6497-5_17

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