Isosurface Similarity Maps

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• Publication Type: Journal Paper with Conference Talk
• Date (from): June 9, 2010
• Date (to): June 11, 2010
• Event: EuroVis 2010
• Lecturer: Stefan Bruckner
• Location: Bordeaux, France
• Note: EuroVis 2010 Best Paper Award
• Keywords: histograms, mutual information, volume visualization, isosurfaces

@article\{bruckner-2010-ISM,
  title =      "Isosurface Similarity Maps",
  author =     "Stefan Bruckner and Torsten M{\"o}ller",
  year =       "2010",
  abstract =   "In this paper, we introduce the concept of isosurface
               similarity maps for the visualization of volume data.
               Isosurface similarity maps present structural information of
               a volume data set by depicting similarities between
               individual isosurfaces quantified by a robust
               information-theoretic measure. Unlike conventional
               histograms, they are not based on the frequency of isovalues
               and/or derivatives and therefore provide complementary
               information. We demonstrate that this new representation can
               be used to guide transfer function design and visualization
               parameter specification. Furthermore, we use isosurface
               similarity to develop an automatic parameter-free method for
               identifying representative isovalues. Using real-world data
               sets, we show that isosurface similarity maps can be a
               useful addition to conventional classification techniques.",
  pages =      "773--782",
  month =      jun,
  number =     "3",
  note =       "EuroVis 2010 Best Paper Award",
  event =      "EuroVis 2010",
  journal =    "Computer Graphics Forum",
  volume =     "29",
  location =   "Bordeaux, France",
  keywords =   "histograms, mutual information, volume visualization,
               isosurfaces",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2010/bruckner-2010-ISM/",
}