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Fast Shear Skew Warp Volume Rendering Using GPGPU for Cloud 3D Visualization

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We present a method for fast volume rendering using GPGPU for Cloud 3D Visualization. Each of the threads is processed in parallel on the GPU. Our algorithm is to use the computational power of graphics processors to speed up the rendering process of the Shear-Warp algorithm. Our GPU-based method provides real-time frame rates and outperforms the GPU-based implementation. Our experimental results show that our algorithm is much faster than the CPU-based Shear-Warp volume visualization in terms of rendering speed and image quality. It can be launched on GPU computing clusters provided by cloud infrastructures such as Amazon EC2.

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  1. Division of Internet & Multimedia Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

    Chang-Woo Cho & Chang-Sung Jeong

  2. School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

    Ki-Hyun Kim & Ki-Young Choi

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. Biomedical Informatics Neuroscience, Ohio State University Center for Biomedical Engineering, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Dept of Computer Education, Jeju National University Teachers College, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Namje Park

  4. Ryerson University Dept. Computer Science, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Isaac Woungang

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Cho, CW., Kim, KH., Choi, KY., Jeong, CS. (2014). Fast Shear Skew Warp Volume Rendering Using GPGPU for Cloud 3D Visualization. In: Park, J., Adeli, H., Park, N., Woungang, I. (eds) Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 274. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40675-1_51

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