Hardware-Based Nonlinear Filtering and Segmentation using High-Level Shading Languages.

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• Publication Type: Conference Paper
• Editor: G. Turk, J. van Wijk, K. Moorhead
• ISBN: 0780381203
• Publisher: IEEE
• Keywords: Hardware Acceleration, Segmentation, Non-linear Filtering

@inproceedings\{Viola-2003-Har,
  title =      "Hardware-Based Nonlinear Filtering and Segmentation using
               High-Level Shading Languages.",
  author =     "Ivan Viola and Armin Kanitsar and Meister Eduard
               Gr{\"o}ller",
  year =       "2003",
  abstract =   "Non-linear filtering is an important task for volume
               analysis. This paper presents hardware-based implementations
               of various nonlinear filters for volume smoothing with edge
               preservation. The Cg high-level shading language is used in
               combination with latest PC consumer graphics hardware.
               Filtering is divided into pervertex and per-fragment stages.
               In both stages we propose techniques to increase the
               filtering performance. The vertex program pre-computes
               texture coordinates in order to address all contributing
               input samples of the operator mask. Thus additional
               computations are avoided in the fragment program. The
               presented fragment programs preserve cache coherence,
               exploit 4D vector arithmetic, and internal fixed point
               arithmetic to increase performance. We show the
               applicability of non-linear filters as part of a GPU-based
               segmentation pipeline. The resulting binary mask is
               compressed and decompressed in the graphics memory
               on-the-fly.",
  pages =      "309--316",
  month =      oct,
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2003",
  editor =     "G. Turk, J. van Wijk, K. Moorhead",
  isbn =       "0780381203",
  publisher =  "IEEE",
  keywords =   "Hardware Acceleration, Segmentation, Non-linear Filtering",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2003/Viola-2003-Har/",
}