Light-field DVR on GPU for streaming time-varying data
Authors: 
David Ganter, Martin Alain, David Hardman, 
Aljoscha Smolić, 
Michael ManzkeAuthors Info & Claims
David Ganter, Martin Alain, David Hardman, Aljoscha Smolić, Michael ManzkeAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 69 - 72
Abstract
Direct Volume Rendering (DVR) of volume data can be a memory intensive task in terms of footprint and cache-coherency. Ray-guided methods may not be the best option to interactively render to light-fields due to feedback loops and sporadic sampling, and pre-computation can rule out time-varying data. We present a pipelined approach to schedule the rendering of sub-regions of streaming time-varying volume data while minimising intermediate sub-buffers needed, sharing the work load between CPU and GPU. We show there is significant advantage to using such an approach.
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October 2018
101 pages
ISBN:9783038680734
- General Chairs:
- Hujun Bao,
- Horace H. S. Ip,
- Hans-Peter Seidel,
- Alla Sheffer,
- Program Chairs:
- Hongbo Fu,
- Abhijeet Ghosh,
- Johannes Kopf
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