Publications

2007 Publications

Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin , PB-FFD: A Point-based Technique for Free-Form Deformation , Journal of Graphics Tools, Vol. 12, 2007, to appear (PDF)

Kin-Shing D. Cheng, Wenping Wang, Hong Qin, Kwan-Yee K. Wong, Huaiping Yang, and Yang Liu, Design and Analysis of Optimization Methods for Subdivision Surface Fitting , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, 2007, to appear. (PDF)

X. Yin, M. Jin and X. Gu , Computing Shortest Cycles Using Universial Covering Space , Visual Computer (PDF)

J. Yu, X. Yin, X. Gu, L. McMillan and S. Gortler , Focal Surfaces of Discrete Geometry , Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2007 (PDF)

F. Xu and K. Mueller , GPU-Acceleration of Attenuation and Scattering Compensation in Emission Computed Tomography , 9th Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine '07, High Performance Image Reconstruction Workshop Lindau, Germany, July 2007 (PDF)

S. Wang, Y. Wang, M. Jin, X. Gu and D. Samaras , Conformal Geometry and Its Applications on 3D Shape Matching, Recognition and Stitching , IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PDF)

X. Li, X. Guo, H. Wang, Y. He, X. Gu and H. Qin , Harmonic Volumetric Mapping for Solid Modeling Applications , ACM Solid and Physical Modeling 2007 (PDF)

F. Xu and K. Mueller , Real-Time 3D Computed Tomographic Reconstruction Using Commodity Graphics Hardware , Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 52, pp. 3405–3419, 2007, (PDF)

M. Jin, F. Luo, S-T. Yau and X. Gu , Computing Geodesic Spectra of Surfaces , ACM Solid and Physical Modeling 2007 (PDF)

X. Gu, Y. He, M. Jin, F. Luo and H. Qin , Manifold Splines with Single Extraodinary Point , ACM Solid and Physical Modeling 2007 (PDF)

Hua-Yan Wang, Hongbin Zha, and Hong Qin, Dirichlet Aggregation: Unsupervised Learning towards an Optimal Metric for Proportional Data , Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning 2007 (ICML 2007), June 20-24, 2007, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA. to appear. (PDF)

Xin Li, Xiaohu Guo, Hongyu Wang, Ying He, Xianfeng Gu, and Hong Qin, Harmonic Volumetric Mapping for Solid Modeling Applications , Proceedings of ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium 2007 (SPM'07), June 4-6, 2007, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. (PDF)

Hongyu Wang, Ying He, Xin Li, Xianfeng Gu, and Hong Qin, Polycube Splines, Proceedings of ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium 2007 (SPM'07), June 4- 6, 2007, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. (PDF)

Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin , Free-Form Geometric Modeling by Integrating Parametric and Implicit PDEs , The Visual Computer, Vol. 23, 2007 (PDF)

Ye Zhao, Feng Qiu, Zhe Fan and Arie Kaufman , Flow Simulation with Locally-Refined LBM , Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games , 2007 (PDF)

K. T. McDonnell, Neophytos Neophytou, Klaus Mueller and Hong Qin , Subdivision Volume Splatting , Joint Eurographics - IEEE TVGC Symposium on Visualization 2007 (EuroVis'07) Norrköping, Sweden, May 2007 pp. 139-147 (PDF)

M. Jin, F. Luo, S-T. Yau and X. Gu , Visualizing the Evolutions of Silhouettes , Computer Graphics International 2007 (PDF)

Haixia Du and Hong Qin , A Novel Framework for Physically Based Sculpting and Animation of Free-form Solids , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol.13, 2007 (PDF)

Wei Hong, Feng Qiu, Joseph Marino, and Arie Kaufman , Computer-aided Detection of Colonic Polyps Using Volume Rendering , Proceeding of SPIE Medical Imaging, 2007

Wei Hong, Jianning Wang, Feng Qiu, Arie Kaufman and John Anderson , Colonoscopy Simulation , Proceeding of SPIE Medical Imaging, 2007

M. Jin, J. Kim and X. Gu , Discrete Surface Ricci Flow , Mathematics of Surfaces (PDF)

Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu, Dimitris SamarasIntegration of Deformable Contours and a Multiple Hypotheses isher Color Model for Robust Tracking in Varying Illuminant Environments, In Image and Vision Computing (to appear).

N. Neophytou, F. Xu, and K. Mueller , Hardware acceleration vs. algorithmic acceleration: Can GPU-based processing beat complexity optimization for CT? , SPIE Medical Imaging '07, San Diego, February 2007 (PDF)

M. Jin, F. Luo and X. Gu , Computing General Geometric Structures on Surfaces Using Ricci Flow , Computer Aided Design (PDF)

Y. Zhao, Y. Han, Z. Fan, F. Qiu, Y.-C. Kuo, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller , Visual simulation of heat shimmering and mirage , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics vol. 13, no.1 (PDF)

K. Mueller, F. Xu, and N. Neophytou , Why do GPUs work so well for acceleration of CT? , SPIE Medical Imaging '07, San Jose, January 2007 (PDF)

2006 Publications

H.Wong, H. Qu, U. Wong, Z. Tang, and K. Mueller, A perceptual framework for comparisons of direct volume rendered images, EEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT'06) (also in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Image and Video Technology, vol 4319), Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 2006 pp. 1314-1323 (PDF)

S. Brennan, K. Mueller, G. Zelinsky, IV Ramakrishnan, D. Warren, and A. Kaufman , Toward a Multi-Analyst, Collaborative Framework for Visual Analytics Framework , IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, October 2006 (PDF)

Yalin Wang, Xianfeng Gu, Paul Thompson, Tony F. Chan, Shing-Tung Yau , Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization with Algebraic Functions , MICCAI 2006 (PDF)

S. Li, Z. Fan, X. Yin, K. Mueller, A. Kaufman, and X. Gu , Geometry Field for Accurate Real-time Reflection , Eurographics 2006 (Short Papers) Vienna, Austria, October 2006 ,(PDF)

Guangyu Zou, Jing Hua, Xianfeng Gu and Otto Muzik , An Approach for Intersubject Analysis of 3D Brain Images Based on Conformal Geometry , International Conference on Image Processing ICIP 2006 (PDF)

Shengying Li, Zhe Fan, Xiaotian Yin, Klaus Muller, Arie E. Kaufman and Xianfeng Gu , Real-Time Reflection using Ray Tracing with Geometry Field , Eurographics 2006 (PDF)

A. Zelenyuk, D. Imre, Y. Cai, K. Mueller, Y. Han, and P. Imrich, SpectraMiner, an Interactive Data Mining and Visualization Software for Single Particle Mass Spectroscopy: A Laboratory Test Case, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry

N . Neophytou and K. Mueller , Color space CAD , ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, August 2006 (PDF)

Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu, Dimitris Samaras , A Target Dependent Colorspace for Robust Tracking , 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 2006 (PDF)

Y. Zhao, L. Wang, F. Qiu, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller , Melting and Flowing in Multiphase Environments , Computers & Graphics, vol. 30, no. 4,2006 (PDF)

Yu-Sung Chang and Hong Qin , A Unified Subdivision Approach for Multi-dimensional Non-Manifold Modeling , Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 38, No. 7 (PDF)

FN. Shareef, T.-Y. Lee, H.-W. Shen, and K. Mueller , An image-based modelling approach to GPU-based rendering of unstructured grids , Volume Graphics 2006, July 2006 (PDF)

W. Leung, N. Neophytou, and K. Mueller , SIMD-aware raycasting , Volume Graphics 2006, July 2006 (PDF)

F. Xu and K. Mueller , GPU-accelerated D2VR , Volume Graphics 2006, July 2006 (PDF)

Y. He, K. Wang, H. Wang, X. Gu and H. Qin , Manifold T-spline , Proceedings of Geometric Modeling and Processing 2006 (PDF)

J. Dai, W. Luo, S.-T. Yau and X. Gu , Geometric Accuracy Analysis for Discrete Surface Approximation , Proceedings of Geometric Modeling and Processing 2006 (PDF)

Sen Wang, Yang Wang, Miao Jin, Xianfeng Gu, Dimitris Samaras , 3D Surface Matching and Recognition Using Conformal Geometry , IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Volume 2, June 2006 (PDF)

M. Jin, F. Luo and X. Gu , Computing Surface Hyperbolic Structure and Real Projective Structure , Solid and Physics Modeling 2006 (PDF)

X. Gu, S. Zhang, R. Martin, P. Huang, and S-T. Yau , Holoimages , Solid and Physics Modeling 2006 (PDF)

W. Hong, X. Gu, F. Qiu, M. Jin and A. Kaufman , Conformal Virtual Colon Flattening , Solid and Physics Modeling 2006 (PDF)

X. Li, X. Gu and H. Qin , Curve Spaces on Genus Zero Surfaces , Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2006 (PDF)

K. Wang, Y. He, X. Guo, X. Gu, and H. Qin , Spline Thin-Shell Simulation of Manifold Surfaces , Computer Graphics International 2006 (PDF)

Yi Liu, Hongbin Zha, and Hong Qin, Shape Topics: A Compact Representation and New Algorithms for 3D Partial Shape Retrieval, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006), Volume II, June 17-22, 2006, New York City, New York, USA, pages 2025--2032. (PDF)

Xin Li, Ying He, Xianfeng Gu, and Hong Qin, Curves-on-Surfaces: A General Shape Comparison Framework, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2006, June 14-16, 2006, Matsushima, JAPAN. (PDF)

Yi Liu, Hongbin Zha, and Hong Qin, The Generalized Shape Distributions for Shape Matching and Analysis, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2006, June 14-16, 2006, Matsushima, JAPAN. (PDF)

N . Neophytou, K. Mueller, K. McDonnell, W. Hong, X. Guan, H. Qin, and A. Kaufman , GPU-accelerated volume splatting with elliptical RBFs , Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, May 2006 (PDF)

W. Hong, N. Neophytou, K. Mueller, and A. Kaufman , Constructing 3D elliptical Gaussians for irregular data , J14th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2006 (PDF)

Xianfeng Gu, Ying He, and Hong Qin , Manifold Splines , Graphical Models, Volume 68, No. 3 (PDF)

X. Guo, X. Li, Y. Bao, X. Gu and H. Qin , Meshless Thin-Shell Simulation Based on Global Conformal Parameterization , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol 12, No. 3 (PDF)

S. Li, K. Mueller, M. Jackowski, D. Dione, and L. Staib , Fast Marching Method to correct for refraction in ultrasound computed tomography , IEEE 2006 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI '06), Arlington, VA, April 2006 pp. 896-899, 2006 (PDF)

K. Mueller and F. Xu , Practical considerations for GPU-accelerated CT , IEEE 2006 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI '06), Arlington, VA, April 2006, pp. 1184-1187, 2006 (PDF)

F. Xu and K. Mueller , A comparative study of popular interpolation and integration methods for use in computed tomography, IEEE 2006 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI '06), Arlington, VA, April 2006, pp. 1252-1255, 2006 (PDF)

Kexiang Wang, Hong Qin, Paul R. Fisher, and Wei Zhao, Automatic Registration of Mammograms using Texture-based Anisotropic Features, Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Arlington, Virginia, USA, April 6-9, 2006. (PDF)

Lei Zhang, Dimitris Samaras , Face Recognition from A Single Training Image under Arbitrary Unknown Lighting using Spherical Harmonics , IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, March 2006 (PDF)

Ying He, Xianfeng Gu, and Hong Qin , Surface Completion for Shape and Appearance , The Visual Computer, Vol. 22, No. 3 (PDF)

Seyoun Park, Xiaohu Guo, Hayong Shin, and Hong Qin , Automatic Shape Control of Triangular B-Splines of Arbitrary Topology , Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (PDF)

Kexiang Wang, Ying He, Hong Qin, Paul R. Fisher, and Wei Zhao, Temporal Registration of 2D X-ray Mammograms using Triangular B-spline Finite Element Method (TBFEM),, Proceedings of SPIE on Medical Imaging 2006 (Conference on Image Processing), San Diego, California, USA, February 11-16, 2006. (PDF)

2005 Publications

Wei Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, Hyejin Yang, Greg Zelinsky, A Computational Model of Eye Movements during Object Class Detection, In NIPS, 2005 (to appear).

Lei Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, Nelly Alia-Klein, Nora Volkow, Rita Goldstein, Modeling Neuronal Interactivity using Dynamic Bayesian Networks, In NIPS, 2005 (to appear).

Y. He, X. Li, X. Gu, and H. Qin, Brain image analysis using spherical splines, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR 05). (PDF)

L. Wang, Y. Zhao, K. Mueller, and A. Kaufman, The Magic Volume Lens: An Interactive Focus+Context Technique for Volume Rendering, IEEE Visualization 2005 Minneapolis, October 2005 (PDF)

J. Wang, M.Oliveira, A. Kaufman, Reconstructing Manifold and Non-Manifold Surfaces from Point Clouds, IEEE Visualization, Oct. 2005, pp. (PDF)

Lei Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, Nelly Klein, Dardo Tomasi, Lisa Cottone, Andreana Leskovjan, Nora Volkow, Rita Goldstein, Exploiting Temporal Information in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain Data, Proc MICCAI 2005, pp. 679-687. (PDF)

Yang Wang, Mohit Gupta, Song Zhang, Sen Wang, David Gu, Dimitris Samaras, Peisen Huang, High Resolution Tracking of Non-Rigid 3D Motion of Densely Sampled Data Using Harmonic Maps, Proc. of ICCV 2005, pp. 388-395. (PDF)

Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu, Dimitris Samaras, Integration of Conditionally Dependent Object Features for Robust Figure/Background Segmentation,, Proc. of ICCV 2005, pp. 1713-1720. (PDF)

Y. Wang, X. Gu, K. M. Hayashi, T. F. Chan, P. M. Thompson and S-T. Yau, Surface Parameterization using Riemann Surface Structure, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2005. (PDF)

Y. Wang, X. Gu and S-T. Yau , Surface Segmentation Using Global Conformal Structure, MICCAI 2005. (PDF)

Y. Wang, X. Gu, K. M. Hayashi, T. F. Chan, P. M. Thompson, and S-T. Yau, Brain Surface Parameterization Using Riemann Surface Structure, Communications in Information and Systems, 4(2), pp. 165-180, 2005. (PDF)

Y. He, X. Gu, and H. Qin, Fairing triangular B-splines of arbitrary topology, Proceedings of Pacific Graphics (PG 05) short paper, pp. 153-156, October 2005. (PDF)

Christopher Carner, Miao Jin, Xianfeng Gu, and Hong Qin, Topology-driven Surface Mappings with Robust Feature Alignment, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005, October 23-28, 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, pages 543 -- 550. (PDF)

Kexiang Wang, Ying He, and Hong Qin, Incorporating Rigid Structures in Non-rigid Registration using Triangular B-splines, Proceedings of the Third Internatinal Workshop on Variational, Geometric, and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision (in conjunction with ICCV 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3752, October 16, 2005, Beijing, China, pages 235 -- 244. (PDF)

Ying He, Miao Jin, Xianfeng Gu, and Hong Qin, A C1 Globally Interpolatory Spline of Arbitrary Topology, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Variational, Geometric, and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision (in conjunction with ICCV 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3752, October 16, 2005, Beijing, China, pages 295 -- 306. (PDF)

Seyoun Park, Xiaohu Guo, Hayong Shin, and Hong Qin, Shape and Appearance Repair for Incomplete Point Surfaces, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), Volume II, October 17-20, 2005, Beijing, China, pages 1260 -- 1267. (PDF)

Sumantro Ray and Hong Qin, A Hybrid Physics-Based Scheme for Interpolation Subdivision using Coupled Physics and Subdivision Coefficients, Proceedings of the 13th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2005), October 12-14, 2005, Macao, China, pages 166 -- 168.

L. Wang, X. Gu, K. Muller and S-T. Yau, Uniform Texture Synthesis and Texture Mapping Using Global Parameterization, The Visual Computer 21:8-10, pp. 801-810, 2005. (PDF)

L. Wang, X. Gu, K. Hayashi, F. Chan, M. Thompson and S-T. Yau, Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization, Proceedings of the Eighth IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), Honolulu, HI, USA, Aug. 2005, pp. 76-81. (PDF)

Yunfan Bao, Xiaohu Guo, and Hong Qin, Physically-based Morphing of Point-sampled Surfaces, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Vol. 16, No. 3-4, July 2005 (PDF)

Xiaohu Guo and Hong Qin, DigitalSculpture: A Subdivision-based Approach to Interactive Implicit Surface Modeling, Graphical Models, Vol. 67, No. 4, pages 347--369, July, 2005 (PDF)

S. Pamudurthy, E Guan, K. Mueller, and M. Rafailovich, Dynamic Approach for Face Recognition using Digital Image Skin Correlation, Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA) 2005New York, July 2005 (PDF)

Kevin T. McDonnell, Yusung Chang, and Hong Qin, Real-time Mesh-free Deformation, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Vol. 16, No. 3-4, July 2005

Z. Fan, Y. Zhao,A. Kaufman, Y. He, Adapted Unstructured LBM for Flow Simulation on Curved Surfaces , ACMSIGGRAPH / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation, Jul. 2005, pp. (PDF)

Sen Wang, Lei Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, Face Reconstruction across Different Poses and Arbitrary Illumination Conditions, Proc. of AVBPA 2005, pp. 91-101. (PDF)

Wei Zhang, Bing Yu, Greg Zelinsky, and Dimitris Samaras, Object class recognition using multiple layer boosting with multiple features, Proc. of AVBPA 2005, pp. 91-101. (PDF)

YN. Neophytou and K. Mueller, GPU accelerated image aligned splatting, Volume Graphics 2005 Stony Brook, June 2005 (PDF)

k. Mueller, S. Lakare, and A. Kaufman, Volume exploration made easy using feature maps, Scientific Visualization: Extracting Information and Knowledge from Scientific Data Sets Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005 (PDF)

M. Steinberg, K. Mueller, and R. Kelly, Engine Room: A comparitive environment for volume rendering engines , Computer Graphics International 2005 Stony Brook, June2005 (PDF)

Ye Duan, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, Interactive Shape Modeling using Lagrangian Surface Flow, The Visual Computer, Vol 21, No. 5, pages 279--288, June, 2005 (PDF)

Jing Hua, Ying He, and Hong Qin, Trivariate Simplex Splines for Inhomogeneous Solid Modeling in Engineering Design, ASME Transactions, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE)}, Vol. 5, No. 2, pages 149--157, June, 2005. (PDF)

S. Li, K.Mueller, Accelerated, High-Quality Refraction Computations for Volume Graphics , InternationalWorkshop on Volume Graphics, Jun.2005, pp.(PDF)

S. Li, K.Mueller, Spline-Based Gradient Filters For High Quality Refraction Computations in Discrete Datasets , Eurographics/IEEEVGTC Symposium on Visualization,Jun. 2005, pp. (PDF)

F. Xu and K. Mueller , Accelerating Popular Tomographic Reconstruction Algorithms On Commodity PC Graphics Hardware, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 654-663, 2005 (PDF)

Lei Zhang, Sen Wang, Dimitris Samaras , Face Synthesis and Recognition under Arbitrary Unknown Lighting using a Spherical Harmonic Basis Morphable Model, Proc. of CVPR 2005 pp. II:209-216. (PDF)

Lei Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, Dardo Tomasi, Nora Volkow Rita Goldstein, Machine Learning for Clinical Diagnosis from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Proc. of CVPR 2005 pp. I:1211-1217. (PDF)

Lei Zhang, Yang Wang, Sen Wang, Dimitris Samaras, Image-Driven Re-targeting and Relighting of Facial Expressions, Solid and Physics Modeling 2005. (PDF)

Y.-K. Lai, S.-M. Hu, X. Gu and R.R. Martin, Geometric Texture Synthesis and Transfer via Geometry Images, Proc. of CGI 2005, pp. 11-18. (PDF)

C. Carner, M. Jin, X. Gu and H. Qin, Topology-based Surface Mapping with Exact Feature Alignment, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2005. (PDF)

Y. Wang, X. Gu, T.F. Chan, P.M. Thompson, S-T. Yau, Direct Painting Software for Tracing on 3D Brain Surfaces with Global Conformal Parameterization, 11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Toronto, Canada, Jun. 12-16, 2005. (PDF)

Y. He, X. Gu and H. Qin, Rational Spherical Splines For Genus Zero Shape Modeling, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2005 . (PDF)

Xiaoming Wei, Feng Qiu, Wei Li, Suzanne Yoakum-Stover and Arie Kaufman, Visual Simulation of Chemical Garden , Proceeding of Computer Graphics International, pp. 74-81, 2005.

Wei Hong, Feng Qiu and Arie Kaufman, GPU-based Object-Order Ray-Casting for Large Datasets, Proceeding of International Workshop on Volume Graphics, pp.177-185, 2005. (PDF)

Jing Hua, Ye Duan, and Hong Qin, Design and Manipulation of Polygonal Models in a Haptic, Stereoscopic Virtual Environment, Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2005), June 15-17, 2005, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pages 145 -- 154. (PDF)

K. Hegeman, M.Ashikhmin, and S. Premoze, A Lighting Model for General Participating Media, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, Apr. 2005 (PDF)

Ye Duan, Liu Yang, Hong Qin, Dimitris Samaras, and Hongkai Zhao, PDE-Based Deformable Surface for Shape Reconstruction, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, April 2005, under review.

W. Li, Z. Fan, X.Wei, and A. Kaufman, Flow Simulation with Complex Boundaries ,GPU Gems II: ProgrammingTechniques for High-Performance Graphics and General-Purpose Computation, Matt Pharr (ed.), Addison-Wesley, Chapter 47, pp.747 - 764, Mar. 2005

M. Jin, Y. Wang, S-T. Yau and X. Gu, Optimal Global Conformal Surface Parameterization , Communications in Information and Systems, Vol 4, No. 2, pp. 117-134, March 2005 . (PDF)

A. Kaufman, S.Lakare, K. Kreeger, and I. Bitter, Virtual Colonoscopy ,Communications of the ACM, vol 48(2), pp. 37 - 41, Feb. 2005

Haixia Du and Hong Qin, Dynamic PDE-based Surface Design Using Geometric and Physical Constraints, Graphical Models, Vol. 67, No. 1, pages 43--71, January, 2005. (PDF)

A. Kaufman and K. Mueller , Overview of Volume Rendering, The Visualization Handbook Academic Press, 2005 (to appear). (PDF)

2004 Publicaions

X. Wei, Y. Zhao,Z. Fan, W. Li, F. Qiu, S. Yoakum-Stover, and A. Kaufman, Lattice-based Flow Field Modeling, IEEETransactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 719 - 729, Nov./Dec. 2004 (PDF)

H. Zhang, F. Qiu,and A. Kaufman, Fast Hybrid Approach for Texturing Point Models, Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 23(4), pp. 715-725, Dec. 2004 (PDF)

Z. Fan, F. Qiu,A. Kaufman, S. Yoakum-Stover, GPU Cluster for High Performance Computing, ACM /IEEE Supercomputing Conference, Nov.2004 (PDF)

Xiaohu Guo, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, Enhancing Interactive Editing on Point Set Surfaces Through Touch-based Haptics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 6, pages 31--39, November/December, 2004(PDF)

F. Qiu, Y. Zhao,Z. Fan, X. Wei, H. Lorenz, J. Wang, S. Yoakum-Stover, A. Kaufman, and K.Mueller, Dispersion Simulation and Visualization for Urban Security, IEEE Visualization, Oct. 2004 (PDF)

S. Lakare and A.Kaufman, Light Weight Space Leaping using Ray Coherence, IEEE Visualization, pp. 19 - 26, Oct. 2004. (PDF)

L. Wang and K. Mueller, Generating sub-resolution detail in images and volumes using constrained texture synthesis, IEEE Visualization 2004 Austin, Texas, October 2004 pp. 75-82(PDF)

A. Li and K. Mueller, Methods for effcient, high quality volume resampling in the frequency domain , IEEE Visualization 2004 Austin, Texas, October 2004 pp. 3-10(PDF)

H. Qu, N. Zhang, R. Shao, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller, Feature-preserving distance fields , IEEE/ACM Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics Austin, Texas, October 2004 pp. 39-46 (PDF)

Dominic Cheng, Wenping Wang, Hong Qin, Kenneth Wong, Huaiping Yang, and Yang Liu, Fitting Subdivision Surfaces to Unorganized Point Data using SDM, Proceedings of The 12th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2004), Seoul, Korea, October 6-8, 2004, pages 16 -- 24.(PDF)

Hui Xie, Kevin T. McDonnell, and Hong Qin, Surface Reconstruction of Noisy and Defective Data-Sets, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004, October 2004, pages 259 -- 266, Austin, Texas.(PDF)

Xiaohu Guo and Hong Qin, Point-based Dynamic Deformation and Crack Propagation, Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, October, 2004.(PDF)

Haixia Du and Hong Qin A Shape Design System Using Volumetric Implicit PDEs, Computer Aided Design, Vol. 36, No. 11, pages 1101--1116, September, 2004. (special issue on Solid Modeling Theory and Applications). (PDF)

Jing Hua and Hong Qin, Haptics-based Dynamic Implicit Solid Modeling, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 10, No. 5, pages 574- -586, September/October 2004(PDF)

Z. Fan, M. Oliveira,C. Ma, and A. Kaufman, A Sketch-Based Interface for Collaborative Design, EurographicsWorkshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, Aug. 2004. (PDF)

I. Bitter, N. Neophytos, K. Mueller, and A. Kaufman SQUEEZE: Numerical-precision-optimized volume rendering, Siggraph/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2004 Grenoble, August, 2004 pp. 25-34(PDF)

Kevin T. McDonnell, Yusung Chang, and Hong Qin, Interpolatory, Solid Subdivision of Unstructured Hexahedral Meshes, The Visual Computer, Vol. 20, No. 6, pages 418 . 436, August 2004(PDF)

Ye Duan and Hong Qin, A Deformable Modeling Paradigm for 3D Shape Recovery from Visual Inputs, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Vision, Object Tracking, and Recognition, August, 2004, Beijing, China, (invited paper).(PDF)

Yang Wang, Xiaolei Huang, Chan-Su Lee, Song Zhang, Zhiguo Li, Dimitris Samaras, Dimitris Metaxas, Ahmed Elgammal, Peisen Huang, High Resolution Acquisition, Learning and Transfer of Dynamic 3-D Facial Expressions , Computer Graphics Forum (EuroGraphics 2004) pp. III: 677-686.(PDF)

H. Qu, and A.Kaufman, O-Buffer: A Frameworkfor Sample-based Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and ComputerGraphics, Jul./Aug. 2004, pp. (PDF)

Ye Duan, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, HapticFlow: PDE-based Mesh Editing with Haptics, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Vol. 15, No. 3-4, pages 193.200, July 2004.(PDF)

Ye Duan and Hong Qin, A Subdivision-Based Deformable Models for Surface Reconstruction of Unknown Topology, Graphical Models, Vol. 66, No. 4, pages 181. 202, July 2004.(PDF)

Xiaohu Guo, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, Scalar-Function-Driven Local and Global Editing on Point Set Surfaces, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 4, pages 43--52, July/August 2004.(PDF)

H. Zhang, O.Hall-Holt, and A. Kaufman, Range Image Registration via Probability Field, Computer GraphicsInternational Jun. 2004, pp. (PDF)

R. Schulte, V. Bashkirov, T. Li, Z. Liang, K. Mueller, et al.,Conceptual design of a proton computed tomography system for applications in proton radiation therapy, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 866-872, 2004(PDF)

X. Guan and K. Mueller, Point-based surface rendering with motion blur, Symposium on Point-Based Graphics Zurich, Switzerland, June 2004 pp. 33-40 (PDF)

Sumantro Ray and Hong Qin, A Hybrid Physics-Based Subdivision Technique Using Coupled Dynamic and Subdivision Parameters, Proceedings of Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI2004), June 16-19, 2004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece , pages 44 -- 51.

Xiaohu Guo, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin,Point Set Surface Editing Techniques based on Level-Sets, Proceedings of Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI2004), June 16-19, 2004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, pages 52 -- 59.(PDF)

Yusung Chang and Hong Qin, A Framework for Multi-dimensional Adaptive Subdivision Objects, Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2004)," June 9-11, 2004 , Genova , Italy , pages 123 --134.(PDF)

Haixia Du and Hong Qin, Medial Axis Extraction and Shape Manipulation of Solid Objects Using Parabolic PDEs, Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2004)," June 9-11, 2004 , Genova , Italy , pages 25 --35.(PDF)

Jing Hua, Ying He, and Hong Qin, Multiresolution Heterogeneous Solid Modeling and Visualization Using Trivariate Simplex Splines, Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (SM 2004), June 9-11, 2004, Genova, Italy, pages 47 -- 58. (Best Paper Award) .(PDF)

Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu, Dimitris Samaras, Fusion of a Multiple Hypotheses Color Model and Deformable Contours for Figure Ground Segmentation in Dynamic Environments , In Proc. 3rd IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, ANM 04, (in conjunction with CVPR 04).(PDF)

Xiaolei Huang, Song Zhang, Yang Wang, Dimitris Metaxas, Dimitris Samaras, A Hierarchical Framework for High Resolution Facial Expression Tracking , In Proc. 3rd IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, ANM 04, (in conjunction with CVPR 04).(PDF)

Ye Duan, Liu Yang, Hong Qin, and Dimitris Samaras, Shape Reconstruction from 3D and 2D Data Using PDE-Based Deformable Surfaces, Proceedings of The 8th European Conference on Computer Vision (Computer Vision - ECCV 2004), Part III, May 11-14, 2004, Prague, Czech Republic, pages 238 -- 251 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3023).(PDF)

Lei Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, Pose Invariant Face Recognition under Arbitrary Unknown Lighting using Spherical Harmonics, In Proc Biometric Authentication Workshop 2004, (in conjunction with ECCV2004)(PDF)

Wei Hong, Feng Qiu, and Arie Kaufman, A Pipeline for Computer Aided Polyp Detection, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI '04), Arlington, VA, April 2004(PDF)

Jing Hua and Hong Qin, Scalar-Field Guided Adaptive Shape Deformation and Animation, The Visual Computer, Vol.20, No.1, pages 47--66, 2004.(PDF)

Ying He and Hong Qin, Surface Reconstruction with Trangular B-splines, Proceedings of Geometric Modeling and Processing 2004 (GMP2004), April 13-15, 2004 , Tsinghua University , Beijing , China.(PDF)

X. Wei, W. Li, K.Mueller, and A. Kaufman, The Lattice-Boltzmann Method for Simulating Gaseous Phenomena, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2004, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 164-176, Mar. 2004 (PDF)

Chhandomay Mandal, Hong Qin, Baba C. Vemuri, Natural Terrain Modeling Using Subdivision Surfaces, UFL-CISE Technical Report TR98-020.(PDF)

Chhandomay Mandal, Hong Qin, Baba C. Vemuri, Physics-Based Shape Modeling And Shape Recovery Using Multiresolution Subdivision Surfaces, UFL-CISE Technical Report TR99-001.(PDF)

2003 Publications

W. Li, X. Wei, and A. Kaufman, Implementing Lattice Boltzmann Computation on Graphics Hardware, TheVisual Computer, vol. 19, no. 7-8,December 2003, pp. 444-456. (PDF)

Ye Duan and Hong Qin, 2.5D Active Contour for Surface Reconstruction, Proceedings of the 8th Fall Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV 2003), Munich, Germany, November 19-21, 2003, pages 431 -- 439.(PDF)

Haixia Du and Hong Qin, Shape Design, Reconstruction, and Manipulation Using Volumetric Implicit PDEs (Abstract), The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, Washington, November 10-13, 2003

Jing Hua, Hui Xie, and Hong Qin, Sketch-based Adaptive Free-Form Deformation (Abstract), The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, Washington, November 10-13, 2003

Ye Duan, Jing Hua and Hong Qin, Explicit Surface Flow for Mesh Editing (Abstract), The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, Washington, November 10-13, 2003

Ye Duan and Hong Qin, Tangential-Flow Based Surface Reconstruction (Abstract), The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, Washington, November 10-13, 2003

Hui Xie, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, Optimization-driven Subdivision Surface Design (Abstract), The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, Washington, November 10-13, 2003

H. Qu, A.Kaufman, Ran Shao, and A. Kumar, A Framework for Sample-based Rendering with O-buffers , Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2003, pp. (PDF)

Y. Zhao, X. Wei, Z. Fan, A, Kaufman, and H. Qin, Voxels On Fire , Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2003, pp. (PDF)

F. Xu and K. Mueller , Towards a Unified Framework for Rapid Computed Tomography on Commodity GPUs, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) 2003 Portland, OR, October 2003. (PDF)

K. Mueller, Z. Liang, T. Li, F. Xu, et al. Reconstruction for Proton Computed Tomography: A Practical Approach, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) 2003 Portland, OR, October 2003(PDF)

R. Schulte, V. Bashkirov, T. Li, J. Liang, K. Mueller, et al. Design of a Proton Computed Tomography System for Applications in Proton Radiation Therapy , IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) 2003 Portland, OR, October 2003(PDF)

T. Li, Z. Liang, K. Mueller, et al. Reconstruction for Proton Computed Tomography: A Monte Carlo Study, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) 2003 Portland, OR, October 2003(PDF)

T. Welsh and K. Mueller A frequency-sensitive point hierarchy for images and volumes, IEEE Visualization 2003 Seattle, October, 2003 pp. 425-432(PDF)

P. Imrich, K. Mueller, D. Imre, A. Zelenyuk, and W. Zhu, Interactive Poster: 3D ThemeRiver, IEEE Information Visualization Symposium '03 Seattle, October 2003(PDF)

P. Imrich, K. Mueller, D. Imre, A. Zelenyuk, and W. Zhu, Interactive Poster: A Hardware-Accelerated Rubbersheet Focus + Context Technique for Radial Dendrograms , IEEE Information Visualization Symposium '03 Seattle, October 2003(PDF)

Hui Xie, Jianning Wang, Jing Hua, Hong Qin, and Arie Kaufman Piecewise C1 Continuous Surface Reconstruction of Noisy Point Cloud via Local Implicit Quadric Regression, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2003 (Vis'03), October 19-24, 2003, Seattle, Washington, pages 91 . 98.(PDF)

Xiaohu Guo and Hong Qin, Dynamic Sculpting and Deformation of Point Set Surfaces, Proceedings of the Eleventh Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2003), October 8-10, 2003, Canmore, Alberta, Canada, pages 123 -- 130.(PDF)

Yang Wang, Dimitris Samaras, Multiple Directional Illuminant Estimation from a Single Image, In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Color and Photometric Methods in Computer Vision (in conjunction with ICCV 2003).(PDF)

W. Li, K. Mueller, and A. Kaufman, Empty-space skipping and occlusion clipping for texture-based volume rendering, IEEE Visualization 2003 Seattle, October, 2003 pp. 317-325. (PDF)

X. Wei, Y. Zhao,Z. Fan, W. Li, S. Yoakum-Stover, and Arie Kaufman, Blowing in the Wind , ACMSIGGRAPH / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation 2003, pp. 75-85. (PDF)

H. Qu, F. Qiu, N.Zhang, A. Kaufman, and M. Wan, Ray Tracing Height Fields , Proceedings of ComputerGraphics International 2003, pp. (PDF)

S. Lakare and A.Kaufman, OpenVL - The OpenVolume Library , Eurographics/IEEE TCVG Workshop on Volume Graphics, pp. 69-78, July 2003. (PDF)

TA. Gosh, P. Prabhu, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller, Hardware Assisted Multichannel Volume Rendering , Computer Graphics International 2003Tokyo, Japan, July, 2003 pp. 2-7(PDF)

V. Srivastava, U. Chebrolu, and K. Mueller Interactive transfer function modification for volume rendering using compressed sample runs , Computer Graphics International 2003Tokyo, Japan, July, 2003 pp. 8-13 (PDF)

H. Varadhan and K. Mueller Volume ablation rendering, Volume Graphics Workshop 2003Tokyo, Japan, July, 2003 pp. 53-60(PDF)

Yang Wang, Dimitris Samaras, Estimation of Multiple Directional Light Sources for Synthesis of Augmented Reality Images, In Graphical Models, July 2003, pp. 185-205. (Special Issue on Pacific Graphics 2002).(PDF)

Haixia Du and Hong Qin, Interactive Shape Design Using Volumetric Implicit PDEs, Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (SM'03), Seattle, Washington, June 16-20, 2003, pages 235 -- 246.(PDF)

Lei Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, Face Recognition Under Variable Lighting using Harmonic Image Exemplars, In Proc. CVPR 2003 pp I: 19-25(PDF)

Shan Lu, Dimitris Metaxas, Dimitris Samaras, John Oliensis, Using Multiple Cues for Hand Tracking and Model Refinement, In Proc. CVPR 2003 pp. II:443-450. (PDF)

X. Wei, W. Li,and A. Kaufman, Meltingand Flowing of Viscous Volumes , Computer Animation and Social Agents 2003, pp. 54-59. (PDF)

N. Neophytou and K. Mueller, Post-convolved splatting, Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization 2003 Grenoble, France, May, 2003 pp. 223-230(PDF)

Dimitrios Samaras, Dimitris Metaxas, Illumination Constraints in Deformable Models for Shape and Light Direction Estimation, In IEEE Trans. PAMI Feb. 2003, pp. 247-264. (PDF)

2002 Publications

Shan Lu, Gang Huang , Dimitris Samaras, Dimitris Metaxas Model-based Integration of Visual Cues for Hand Tracking. , In Proc. WMVC 2002pp. (PDF)

Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin, Virtual Clay: Haptics-based Deformable Solids of Arbitrary Topology, In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion Deformable Objects, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2002 (Invited Paper) pp. (PDF)

X. Wei, W. Li, K.Mueller, and A. Kaufman, Simulating Fire with Texture Splats, Proceedings IEEE Visualization 2002, pp. 227-237. (PDF)

N. Neophytou and K. Mueller, Space-time points: Splatting in 4D , Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2002 Boston, October 2002 pp. 97-106, pp. (PDF)

V. Srivastava, U. Chebrolu, and K. Mueller, Interactive transfer function modification for volume rendering using pre-shaded sample runs , Pacific Graphics'02 Beijing, China, October, 2002 pp. 489-490 pp. (PDF)

Jing Hua and Hong Qin, Haptic-based Volumetric Modeling Using Spline-based Dynamic Implicit Functions, In Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2002 (VolVis 2002), October 28-29, 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002 pages 55 -- 64. pp. (PDF)

Hui Xie and Hong Qin, A Physics-based Framework for Subdivision Surface Design with Automatic Rules Control , In Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2002), October 9-11, 2002, Beijing, P.R. Chine, 2002, pages 304 -- 315.pp. (PDF)

Yang Wang, Dimitris Samaras, Estimation of Multiple Directional Light Sources for Synthesis of Mixed Reality Images. , In Proc. Pacific Graphics 2002, pp. 38-47pp. (PDF)

T. Welsh, M.Ashikhmin, and K. Mueller, Transferring Color to Grayscale Images, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, pp. (PDF)

S. Frank, and A.Kaufman, Dependency Graph Scheduling in a Volumetric Ray Tracing Architecture, SIGGRAPH/EurographicsWorkshop on Graphics Hardware, pp.127-135, 2002. (PDF)

Y. Chang, K.McDonnell, and H. Qin, A New Solid Subdivision Scheme Based on Box Splines, Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications 2002, pp. (PDF)

J. Sweeney and K. Mueller , Shear-Warp Deluxe: The shear-warp algorithm revisited , Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization 2002 Barcelona, Spain, May 2002 pp. 95-104, pp. (PDF)

Jing Hua and Hong Qin, Dynamic Implicit Solids with Constraints for Haptic Sculpting, In Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2002), May 17-22, 2002, Banff, Alberta, Canada, pages 119 - 128, May 2002. pp. (PDF)

Yang Wang, Dimitris Samaras Estimation of Multiple Illuminants from a Single Image of Arbitrary Known Geometry. , In Proc. ECCV 2002. pp. III:272-288 pp. (PDF)

Hui Xie and Hong Qin, A Novel Optimization Approach to the Effective Computation of NURBS Knots, International Journal of Shape Modeling, 7(2): 199-227, December, 2001 (Special Issue on the International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications - SMI2001). pp. (PDF)

2001 Publications

F. Dachille, H.Qin, and A. Kaufman, A Novel Haptics-Based Interface and Sculpting System for Physics-Based Geometric Design, Computer Aided Design 2001, pp. (PDF)

Ye Duan and Hong Qin, A Novel Subdivision-based Deformable Model for Surface Reconstruction of Arbitrary Topology (Abstract), The 7th SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 2001, Sacramento, CA. (PDF)

Jing Hua and Hong Qin, Real-time Volume Sculpting System Using Implicit Functions (Abstract), The 7th SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 2001, Sacramento, CA. (PDF)

T. Welsh, K.Mueller, W. Zhu, N. VolKow, and J. Meade, Graphical Strategies to Convey Functional Relationships in the Human Brain: A Case Study, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2001, pp., October 2001. (PDF)

Haixia Du and Hong Qin, Integrating Physics-based Modeling with PDE Solids for Geometric Design, In Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2001), 2001.(PDF)

Jing Hua and Hong Qin, Haptic Sculpting of Volumetric Implicit Functions, In Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2001), pages 254 - 264, October 2001, Tokyo, Japan.(PDF)

K. McDonnell, andH. Qin, FEM-Based Subdivision Solids for Dynamic and Haptic Interaction, Proceedingsof the 6th ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications 2001, pp. 312-313, June 2001. (PDF)

M. Nulkar and K. Mueller, Splatting with shadows, International Workshop on Volume Graphics 2001 Stony Brook, June 2001 pp. 35-50 (PDF)

Ye Duan and Hong Qin, Intelligent Balloon: A Subdivision-based Deformable Model For Surface Reconstruction Of Arbitrary, Unknown Topology, In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2001), pages 47-58, June 2001.(PDF)

Ye Duan and Hong Qin, Extracting Boundary Surface of Arbitrary Topology from Volumetric Datasets, In Proceedings of International Workshop on Volume Graphics (VG01), pages 237-248, June 2001. (PDF)

Sumantro Ray and Hong Qin, Novel Solver for Dynamic Surfaces, In Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI 2001), June 2001. (PDF)

T. Welsh, K.Mueller, W. Zhu, J. Meade, and N. Volkow, BrainMiner: A 3D Visual Interface for the Investigation of Functional Relationships in the Brain, Proceedings of SPIE:Medical Imaging 2001, pp., May2001

Hui Xie and Hong Qin, Automatic Knot Determination of NURBS for Interactive Geometric Design, In Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modelling and Applications (SMI 2001), May 2001. (PDF)

Meijing Zhang and Hong Qin, Hierarchical D-NURBS Surfaces and Their Physics-based Sculpting, In Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modelling and Applications (SMI 2001), May 2001.(PDF)

K. McDonnell, H.Qin, and R. Wlodarczyk, VirtualClay: A Real-time Sculpting System with Haptic Toolkits, Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, pp. 179-190, March 2001. (PDF)

M. Wan, F.Dachille, K. Kreeger, and A. Kaufman, Interactive Electronic Biopsy for 3D Virtual Colonoscopy, SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging, Feburary 2001, pp. (PDF)

F. Dachille, K.Kreeger, M. Wax, A. Kaufman, and J. Liang, Interactive Navigation for PC-Based Virtual Colonoscopy, SPIEInternational Symposium on Medical Imaging, Feburary 2001, pp. (PDF)

2000 Publications

J. Huang, N. Shareef, R. Crawfis, P. Sadayappan, and K. Mueller, A parallel splatting algorithm with occlusion culling , IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 1227-1237, 2000

K. Mueller, T.Welsh, W. Zhu, J. Meade, and N. Volkow, BrainMiner: A Visualization Tool for ROI-Based Discovery ofFunctional Relationships in the Human Brain, New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation 2000, pp., November 2000. (PDF)

Chhandomay Mandal, Hong Qin and Baba C. Vemuri, A Novel FEM-based Dynamic Framework For Subdivision Surfaces, Computer Aided Design, 32(8&9): 479-497, 2000 (Special issue on solid modeling). In Proceedings of Fifth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling '99), pages 191-202, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 1999(PDF)

I. Bitter, M.Sato, M. Bender, K. McDonnell, A. Kaufman, and M. Wan, CEASAR: A Smooth, Accurate and RobustCenterline Extraction Algorithm, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2000, pp. October 2000. (PDF)

M. Meissner, J. Huang, D. Bartz, K. Mueller, and R. Crawfis, A practical comparison of popular volume rendering algorithms , Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2000 Salt-Lake City, October 2000 pp. 81-90(PDF)

F. Dachille, K. Mueller, and Ari Kaufman, Volumetric backprojection, 2000 Symposium on Volume Rendering, Salt-Lake City, October 2000 pp. 109-117(PDF)

J. Huang, K. Mueller, N. Shareef, and R. Crawfis, FastSplats: Optimized splatting on rectilinear grids, IEEE Visualization'00 Salt-Lake City, October 2000 pp. 219-227(PDF)

Haixia Du and Hong Qin, Dynamic PDE Surfaces with Flexible and General Geometric Constraints, In Proceedings of the Eighth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2000), pages 213-222, Hong Kong, October 3-5, 2000 (PDF)

Hong Qin, FEM-Based Dynamic Subdivision Splines, In Proceedings of the Eighth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2000), pages 184-191, Hong Kong, October 3-5, 2000. (Invited paper)(PDF)

K. Mueller and R. Yagel , Rapid 3D cone-beam reconstruction with the Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (SART) using 2D texture mapping hardware , 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization Girona, Spain, September 2000 (PDF)

Haixia Du and Hong Qin, Direct Manipulation and Interactive Sculpting of PDE Surfaces, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2000), 19(3): C261-C270, Interlaken, Switzerland, August 2000 (PDF)

Chhandomay Mandal, Hong Qin and Baba C. Vemuri, Dynamic Modeling of Butterfly Subdivision Surfaces, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 6(3): 265-287, July-September, 2000(PDF)

Dimitris Samaras, Dimitris Metaxas, Pascal Fua, Y.G.Leclerc, FEM-Based Dynamic Subdivision Splines, In Proc. CVPR 2000, pp. I:480-487. (PS)

A. Kaufman, F.Dachille, B. Chen, I. Bitter, K. Kreeger, N. Zhang, and Q. Tang, Real-Time Volume Rendering, Special Issue on 3D Imaging of the International of Imaging Systems and Technology,2000, pp.

F. Dachille andA. Kaufman, Incremental Triangle Voxelization, Proc. Graphics Interface, May 2000, pp. (PDF)

F. Dachille, and A. Kaufman, High-Degree Temporal Antialiasing, Proc. International Computer Animation Conference,May 2000 pp. (PDF)

K. McDonnell, and H. Qin, Dynamic Sculpting and Animation of Free-form Subdivision Solids, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Animation 2000, pp.126-133, May 2000. (PDF)

M. Wan, N. Zhang,A. Kaufman, and H. Qu, Interactive Stereoscopic Rendering of Voxel-based Terrain , Proc.IEEE Virtual Reality '00, pp.197-206, 2000.

M. Wan, W. Li, K.Kreeger, I. Bitter, A. Kaufman, Z. Liang, D.Chen, and M. Wax, 3D Virtual Colonoscopy with Real-time Volume Rendering, SPIE's International Symposium on Medical Imaging 2000, pp., February 2000. (PDF)

D. Chen, Z.Liang, M. Wan, A. Kaufman, and M. Wax, A tree-branch searching, multi-resolution approach to skeletonization for virtual endoscopy , SPIE's International Symposium on Medical Imaging 2000, pp.,February 2000. (PDF)

M. Wan, A.Kaufman, Z. Liang, and K. Kreeger, Advancing Virtual Colonoscopy to Practice, theInternational Workshop on 3D Imaging and Virtual Endoscopy, pp., February 2000

1999 Publications

Chhandomay Mandal, Hong Qin and Baba C. Vemuri, Manipulating Butterfly Subdivision Surfaces with Forces (Abstract), Colon , The Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2-5, 1999, page 41

Chhandomay Mandal, Hong Qin and Baba C. Vemuri, A Subdivision-based Finite Element Method and its Applications (Abstract), Colon , The Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2-5, 1999, pages 56 -- 57

Frank Dachille IX, Hong Qin, Arie Kaufman, and Jihad El-Sana, Haptic Manipulation of Virtual Spline Objects (Abstract), Colon , The Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2-5, 1999, page 40

B. Chen, F.Dachille, and A. Kaufman, Forward Image Warping, IEEE Visualization '99, pp. 89-96, October 1999. (PDF)

K.A. Kreeger, andA. Kaufman, Mixing Translucent Polygons with Volumes,Visualization '99, pp. 24-29, October 1999. (PDF)

K.A. Kreeger, andA. Kaufman, Interactive Volume Segmentation with the PAVLOV Architecture , ParallelVisualization and Graphics Symposium,pp. 25-26, October 1999. (PDF)

M. Wan, A.Kaufman, and S. Bryson, High Performance Presence-Accelerated Ray Casting , Proc.IEEE IEEE Visualization '99, pp.379-386, 1999.

M. Wan, Q. Tang,A. Kaufman, Z. Liang, and M. Wax, Volume Rendering Based Interactive Navigation within the Human Colon , Proc.IEEE Visualization '99, pp. 397-400,October 1999. (PDF)

K. Mueller, N. Shareef, J. Huang, and R. Crawfis, IBR-assisted volume rendering Colon , Late Breaking Hot Topics, IEEE Visualization'99 San Francisco, October 1999 (won Best Hot Topic award)(PDF)

K. Mueller, T. Möller, and R. Crawfis, Splatting without the blurColon , IEEE Visualization'99 San Francisco, October 1999 pp. 363-371(PDF)

Dimitris Samaras and Dimitris Metaxas, Coupled Lighting Direction and Shape Estimation from Single ImagesColon , In Proc. ICCV 1999, pp. 868-874 (PS)

K.A. Kreeger, andA. Kaufman, Hybrid Volume and Polygon Rendering with Cube Hardware, SIGGRAPH/EurographicsWorkshop on Graphics Hardware,August 1999. (PDF)

Z. Liang, D.Chen, A. Kaufman, M. Wan, B. Li, and M. Wax, Virtual Endoscopy in Early Detection of Cancers , BiomedicalImaging Symposium: Visualizing the Future of Biology and Medicine, pp., 1999.

K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.J. Wheller Anti-aliased 3D cone-beam reconstruction of low-contrast objects with algebraic methods Colon , IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 519-537, 1999 (PDF)

K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.J. Wheller Fast implementations of algebraic methods for the 3D reconstruction from cone-beam data Colon , IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 519-537, 1999 (PDF)

F. Dachille, H. Qin,A. Kaufman, and J. El-sana, Haptic Sculpting of Dynamic Surfaces, Proc.Computer Graphics (1999 SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics), pp. 103-110. (PDF)

K. Mueller, N. Shareef, J. Huang, and R. Crawfis High-quality splatting on rectilinear grids with efficient culling of occluded voxels Colon , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 116-134, 1999(PDF)

M. Wan, H. Qu,and A. Kaufman, Virtual Flythrough Over Voxel-Based Terrain , Proc. IEEE VirtualReality '99, pp. 53-60, 1999.

K. Mueller and R. Yagel On the use of graphics hardware to accelerate algebraic reconstruction methods Colon , 1999 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, No. 3659-62 San Diego, February 1999(PDF)

M. Wan, A.Kaufman, and S. Bryson, Optimized Interpolation for Volume Ray Casting , Journal of GraphicsTools, 1999.

1998 Publications

M. Wan, S. Bryson, and A. Kaufman, Boundary Cell-Based Acceleration forVolume Ray Casting, Computer & Graphics, Vol.22, No.6., 1998, pp. 715-721

T. Chiueh, A.Ballman, and K. Kreeger, Multi-resolution Indexing For Shape Images, Seventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November1998. (PDF)

K. Kreeger, I.Bitter, F. Dachille, and A. Kaufman, Adaptive Perspective Ray Casting, 1998Symosium on Volume Visualization, pp.55-62, October 1998. (PDF)

C. Huang, H. Qu,and A. Kaufman, Volume Rendering with Haptic Interaction, Proc. the Third PHANTOM UsersGroup Workshop, 1998.

K. Mueller and R. Crawfis, Eliminating popping artifacts in sheet buffer-based splatting , IEEE Visualization '98 Chapel Hill, October 1998 pp. 239-245 (PDF)

T. Möller, K. Mueller, Y. Kurzion, R. Machiraju, and R. Yagel, Design of accurate and smooth filters for function and derivative reconstruction, 1998 Symposium on Volume Visualization Chapel Hill, October 1998 pp. 143-151(PDF)

Chhandomay Mandal, Hong Qin and Baba C. Vemuri, A New Dynamic FEM-based Subdivision Surface Model for Shape Recovery and Tracking in Medical Images, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI '98), pages 753-760, Cambridge, MA, October 1998. (PDF)

K. Kreeger, andA. Kaufman, PAVLOV: A Programmable Architecture for Volume Processing, SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware, September1998. (PDF)

F. Dachille, K.Kreeger, B. Chen, I. Bitter, and A. Kaufman, High-Quality Volume Rendering Using Texture Mapping Hardware, 1998SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware, pp. 69-76, August 1998. (PDF)

Chhandomay Mandal, Hong Qin and Baba C. Vemuri, Dynamic Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 4(3): 215-229, July 1998. The Fifth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, page 30, Nashville, Tennessee, November 1997.(PDF)

K. Mueller, Fast and accurate three-dimensional reconstruction from cone-beam projection data using algebraic methods , PhD dissertation, The Ohio State University June, 1998(PDF)

Dimitrios Samaras and Dimitris Metaxas, Incorporating Illumination Constraints in Deformable Models, In Proc CVPR 1998, pp. 322-329.(PS)

Hong Qin, Physics-Based Modeling Framework for Graphics, Computer-Aided Design, and Visualization, In Proceedings of International Symposium on Computing and Microelectronics Technologies, May 1998, pages 250-267, Peking University Press.(PDF)

K. Mueller, T. Möller, J.E. Swan, R. Crawfis, N. Shareef, and R. Yagel, Splatting errors and antialiasing, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 178-191, 1998 (won Naval Notable Achievement Award)(PDF)

K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.J. Wheller, A fast and accurate projection algorithm for the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) , 1998 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Vol. SPIE 3336 San Diego, February 1998 pp. 24-732 (won Honorary Mention Award)

Chhandomay Mandal, Hong Qin and Baba C. Vemuri, Shape Recovery Using Dynamic Subdivision Surfaces, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pages 805-810, Bombay, India, January 1998. (PDF)

1997 Publications

L. Hong, S. Muraki, A. Kaufman, D. Bartz, and T. He, Virtual Voyage: Interactive Navigation in the Human Colon, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH '97, pp. 27-34. (PDF)

L. Hong, Z.Liang, A. Viswambharan, A. Kaufman, and M. Wax, Reconstruction and Visualization of 3D Models of Colonic Surface, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 44, No. 3, June 1997, pp. 1297-1302.

A. Kaufman, Volume Visualization, in Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John G. Webster, Ed., Wiley Publishing, 1997.

S. You, L. Hong,M. Wan, K. Junyaprasert, A. Kaufman, S. Muraki, Y. Zhou, M. Wax, and Z. Liang, Interactive Volume Rendering for Virtual Colonoscopy, Proc. IEEE Visualization '97, pp. 433-436. (PDF)

J.E. Swan, K. Mueller, T. Möller, N. Shareef, R. Crawfis, and R. Yagel, An anti-aliasing technique for splatting , IEEE Visualization'97 Phoenix, October 1997 pp. 197-204 (won Best Paper Award.)(PDF)

T. Möller, R. Machiraju, K. Mueller, and R. Yagel, A comparison of normal estimation schemes , IEEE Visualization'97 Phoenix, October 1997 pp. 19-26(PDF)

Chhandomay Mandal, Hong Qin and Baba C. Vemuri, Dynamic Smooth Subdivision Surfaces for Data Visualization, In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '97, pages 371-377, Phoenix, Arizona, October 1997.(PDF)

L. Hong, S.Muraki, A. Kaufman, D. Bartz, and T. He, Virtual Voyage: Interactive Navigation in the Human Colon, Proc.ACM SIGGRAPH '97, pp. 27-34. (PDF)

L. Hong, Z.Liang, A. Viswambharan, A. Kaufman, and M. Wax, Reconstruction and Visualization of 3DModels of Colonic Surface, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 44, No. 3, June 1997, pp. 1297-1302.

Hong Qin and Demitri Terzopoulos, Triangular NURBS and Their Dynamic Generalizations, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 14(4):325-347, 1997.(PDF)

K.A. Kreeger, F.Dachille, and A. Kaufman, A Slice-Order Ray-Merging Method for Volume Rendering, Tech. Report #CVC.97.04.08, Center for VisualComputing, SUNY Stony Brook, 1997.

K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.F. Cornhill, The weighted distance scheme: a globally optimizing projection ordering method for the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) , IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 223-230, 1997(PDF)

T. Möller, R. Machiraju, K. Mueller, and Roni Yagel, Evaluation and design of filters using a Taylor series expansion , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 184-199, 1997(PDF)

C. Silva, L.Hong, and A. Kaufman, Flow Surface Probes for Vector Field Visualization, Scientific Visualization : Overviews, Methodologies & Techniques, G. Nielson, H.Mueller and H. Hagen, Eds., IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997. (PDF)

1996 Publications

C. Silva, A. Kaufmanand C. Pavlakos, PVR:High-Performance Volume Rendering, IEEE Computational Science &Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, December1996, pp. 16-28. (PDF)

L. Hong, Z.Liang, A. Viswambharan, A. Kaufman, and M. Wax, 3D Reconstruction and Visualization of the Inner Surface of the Colon from Spiral CT Data, Proc.IEEE Medical Imaging '96, pp.1506-1510.

T. He, L. Hong,A. Kaufman, and H. Pfister, Generation of Transfer Functions with Stochastic Search Techniques, IEEEVisualization '96 Conference Proceedings, ACM/SIGGRAPH Press, October 1996. (PDF)

T. He and A.Kaufman, Fast Stereo Volume Rendering, IEEE Visualization '96 Conference Proceedings, ACM/SIGGRAPH Press, October 1996. (PDF)

H. Pfister and A.Kaufman, Cube-4: AScalable Architecture for Real-Time Volume Rendering, ACM/IEEEVolume Visualization Symposium Proceedings, ACM/SIGGRAPH Press, October, 1996. (PDF)

C. Silva, J.Mitchell, and A. Kaufman, Near Optimal Rendering of Irregular Grids, ACM/IEEE Volume Visualization '96Symposium Proceedings, ACM/SIGGRAPHPress, October 1996.

A. Varshney and A. Kaufman, FINESSE: A Financial information Spreadsheet, IEEE Information Visualization'96 Symposium Proceedings, IEEEComputer society Press, October 1996.

K. Mueller and R. Yagel, Fast perspective volume rendering with splatting by using a ray-driven approach , IEEE Visualization'96 San Francisco, October 1996 pp. 65-72 (PDF)

A. Kaufman, Volume Visualization, Handbookof Computer Science and Engineering, AllenTucker, Ed., CRC Press, 1996, pp. 1319-1353.

T. Moller, R. Machiraju, K. Mueller, and Roni Yagel A medical workstation for the display and analysis of multi-frame digital cineradiographic data , Computers in Medicine and Biology vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 385-400, 1996 (PDF)

Hong Qin, D-NURBS for Physics-Based Shape Modeling, The Twenty-Third International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM Siggraph'96 Technical Sketches), New Orleans, Louisiana, August 4-9, 1996. (PDF)

D. Cohen, A.Kaufman, and T. Y. Kong, On the Soundness of Surface Voxelizations, Topological Algorithmsfor Digital Image Processing, T.Yung Kong and A. Rosenfeld, Eds., North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1996, pp. 181-204.

A. Kaufman, Volume Visualization, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 28, No. 1,1996, pp. 165-167. (PDF)

Hong Qin and Demitri Terzopoulos D-NURBS: A Physics-Based Geometric Design Framework, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2(1):85- 96, March 1996.(PDF)

Hong Qin Physics-Based Geometric Design, International Journal of Shape Modeling, 2(2&3):139-188, 1996. (PDF)

1995 Publications

H. Pfister, F.Wessels, and A. Kaufman, Gradient Estimation and Sheared Interpolation for the Cube Architecture, Computer & Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 5,December 1995, pp. 667-678.

D. Cohen-Or and A. Kaufman, Fundamentals of Surface Voxelization, CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing, Vol. 56, No. 6, November 1995, pp. 453-461.

Hong Qin and Demitri Terzopoulos, Sculpting of Triangular NURBS Objects (Extended Abstract), , The Fourth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, page A24, Nashville , Tennessee , November 1995 (PDF)

L. Hong, X. Mao,and A. Kaufman, Interactive Visualization of Mixed Scalar and Vector Fields, IEEE Visualization '95 Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA,October, 1995, pp. 240-247. (PDF)

X. Mao, L. Hong,and A. Kaufman, Splattingof Curvilinear Volumes, IEEE Visualization '95 Proceedings, IEEEComputer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, October, 1995, pp. 61-68. (PDF)

T. He, L. Hong,A. Kaufman, A. Varshney, and S. Wang, Voxel-Based Object Simplification, IEEE Visualization '95 Proceedings. IEEEComputer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, October, 1995, pp.296-303. (PDF)

L. Hong, A.Kaufman, Y. Wei, A. Viswambharan, M. Wax, and Z. Liang, 3D Virtual Colonoscopy, IEEEFrontiers in Biomedical Visualization Symposium Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, October, 1995, pp. 26-32. (PDF)

C. Silva, J.Mitchell, and A. Kaufman, Automatic Generation of Triangular Irregular Networks using Greedy Cuts, IEEEVisualization '95 Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, October 1995, pp. 201-208. (PDF)

J. Hesser, R.Maenner, G. Knittel, W. Strasser, H. Pfister, and A. Kaufman, Three Architectures for Volume Rendering, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 14, No. 3,August 1995, pp. 111-122. (PDF)

Hong Qin and Demitri Terzopoulos, D-NURBS, In Proceedings of Third Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics '95), Seoul, South Korea, August 1995, in Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, J. Chen et al. (eds.), World Scientific, pages 455-474, Singapore, 1995. (Invited paper). (PDF)

L. Sobierajski,R. Avila, D. O'Malley, S. Wang, and A. Kaufman, Visualization of Calcium Activity in Nerve Cells, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol.15, No. 4, July 1995, pp. 55-61.

K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.F. Cornhill, Accelerating the anti-aliased Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) by table-based voxel backward projection , EMBS'95 (Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) Montreal, June 1995 pp. 579-580 (PS)

D. Cohen-Or and A. Kaufman, A 3D Skewing and De-skewing Scheme for Conflict-Free Access to Rays in Volume Rendering, IEEETransactions on Computers, Vol.44,No. 5, May 1995, pp. 707-710.

Hong Qin and Demitri Terzopoulos, Dynamic Manipulation of Triangular B-Splines, In Proceedings of Third Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling '95), pages 351-360, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 1995.(PDF)

S. Wang and A.Kaufman, Volume Sculpting, Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics Proceedings, ACM Press, April 1995, pp. 151-156. (PDF)

Hong Qin and Demitri Terzopoulos, Dynamic NURBS Swung Surfaces for Physics-Based Shape Design, Computer Aided Design, 27(2):111-127, February 1995 (PDF)

I. Fujishiro andA. Kaufman, Volume Visualization: Concepts and Research Directions, Journalof the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan, Vol. 34, No. 7, 1995.

1994 Publications

R. Avila, T. He,L. Hong, A. Kaufman, H. Pfister, C. Silva, L. Sobierajski, and S. Wang, VolVis: A Diversified Volume Visualization System, IEEE Visualization Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington, DC, October, 1994, pp. 31-38. (PDF)

C. Silva and A.Kaufman, Parallel Performance Measures for Volume Ray Casting, IEEEVisualization '94 Proceedings, IEEEComputer Society Press, Washington, DC, October, 1994, pp. 196-203. (PDF)

T. He, S. Wang,and A. Kaufman, Wavelet-Based Volume Morphing, IEEE Visualization Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington, DC, October, 1994, pp. 85-92. (PDF)

H. Pfister, A.Kaufman, and T. Chiueh, Cube-3:A Real-Time Architecture for High-resolution Volume Visualization, ACM/IEEE Volume Visualization Symposium Proceedings, ACM Press, October 1994, pp. 75-82. (PDF)

L. Sobierajskiand A. Kaufman, Volumetric Ray Tracing, ACM/IEEE Volume Visualization Symposium Proceedings, ACM Press, October 1994, pp. 11-18. (PDF)

A. Kaufman and L.Sobierajski, Continuum Volume Display, Computer Visualization, R. S. Gallagher, Ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL,1994, pp. 171-202.

A. Kaufman, Trends in Volume Visualization and Volume Graphics, Scientific Visualization: Advances and Challenges, L. Rosenblum et al., Eds., Academic Press, London, 1994, pp. 3-19.

R. Avila, L.Sobierajski, and A. Kaufman, Visualizing Nerve Cells, IEEE Computer Graphics & application, Vol. 14, No. 5,September 1994, pp. 11-13.

S. Wang and A.Kaufman, Volume-Sampled 3D Modeling, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol. 14, No. 5, September 1994, pp. 26-32.

Demitri Terzopoulos and Hong Qin, Physics-Based NURBS Swung Surfaces, In Proceedings of Sixth IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, London, UK, September 1994, in The Mathematics of Surfaces VI, G. Mullineux (ed.), pages 267-290, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1996.(PDF)

L. Sobierajski, Global Illumination Models for Volume Rendering, Doctorate Thesis, Department of Computer Science,State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1994.

D. Cohen, A.Kaufman, and Y. Wang, Generating a Smooth Voxel-Based Model from an Irregular Polygon Mesh, TheVisual Computer, Vol. 10, No. 6,1994, pp. 295-305.

Demitri Terzopoulos and Hong Qin, Dynamic NURBS with Geometric Constraints for Interactive Sculpting, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 13(2):103-136, April 1994.(PDF)

A. Kaufman, K.Hoehne, W. Krueger, L. Rosenblum, and P. Schroeder, Research Issues in Volume Visualization, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, March1994, pp. 63-67.

1993 Publications

L. Sobierajski,D. Cohen, A. Kaufman, R. Yagel, and D. Acker, Fast Display Method for Volumetric Data, TheVisual Computer, Vol. 10, No. 2,1993, pp. 116-124. (PDF)

B.J. Burbach,R.S. Avila, L.M. Sobierajski, A.E. Kaufman, and P.R. Adams, The Living and the Dead: Interactive Visualization of Nerve Cells, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19, 1993, Abstract 458.9

Hong Qin and Demitri Terzopoulos, NURBS with Lagrangian Dynamics (Abstract), ,The Third SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, page A27, Tempe , Arizona , November 1993. (PDF)

T. He and A.Kaufman, Virtual InputDevices for 3D Systems, IEEE Visualization '93 Proceedings, IEEEComputer Society Press, San Jose, CA, October, 1993, pp. 142-148. (PDF)

S. Wang and A. Kaufman,Volume Sampled Voxelization of Geometric Primitives, IEEE Visualization '93Proceedings, IEEE Computer SocietyPress, October 1993, pp. 78-84. (PDF)

T. He and A.Kaufman, Virtual Input Devices in a Virtual world, Virtual Reality Systems, IEEE Computer SocietyPress, New York, NY, October, 1993.

A. Kaufman, A.Bandopadhay, and B. Shaviv, An Eye Tracking Computer User Interface, Research Frontier in Virtual Reality Workshop Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, October 1993, pp. 78-84.(PDF)

A. Kaufman, D.Cohen, and R. Yagel, Volume Graphics, IEEE Computer, Vol. 26, No. 7, July 1993, pp. 51-64. Also in Japanese, Nikkei Computer Graphics, 1, No. 88, pp. 148-155 & 2, No. 89, pp. 130-137,1994.

A. Kaufman, L. M.Sobierajski, R. S. Avila and T. He, Navigation and Animation in a Volume Visualization System, Models and Techniques in Computer Animation, N.M. Thalmann and D. Thalmann, Eds.,Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 64-74.

A. Kaufman, R.Yagel, and D. Cohen, Modeling in Volume Graphics, Modeling in Computer Graphics, B. Falcidieno and T. L. Kunii, Eds., Springer-Verlag,1993, pp. 441-454.

1992 Publications

U. Ganapathy and A. Kaufman, 3D Acquisition and Visualization of Ultrasound Data, IEEE Visualization in Biomedical Computing, SPIE Publishing Company, Vol. 1808, October 1992, pp. 535-545.

R. Avila, L.Sobieraski, and A. Kaufman, Towards a Comprehensive Volume Visualization System, IEEE Visualization Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, October 1992, pp. 13-20. (PDF)

R. Yagel, D.Cohen, and A. Kaufman, Discrete Ray Tracing, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 12, No. 5, September, 1992, pp. 19-28. (PDF)

R. Yagel and A.Kaufman, Template-Based Volume Viewing, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 11, No. 3, September 1992, pp. 153-167. (PDF)

R. Yagel, D.Cohen, and A. Kaufman, Normal Estimation in 3D Discrete Space, The Visual Computer, Vol. 8, No. 5-6, June 1992, pp. 278-291. (PDF)

A. Kaufman, Fundamentals of Volume Visualization, Visual Computing - Integrating Computer Graphics with Computer Vision, T. Kumii, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992, pp.239-252.

A. Kaufman, Volume Synthesis Principles, Focus on Scientific Visualization, H.Hagen, H. Mueller, and G. Nielson, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992, pp. 123-138.

A. Kaufman, Introduction to Volume Visualization, Programming(in Russian), Vol. 1, 1992, pp.8-20; and Pixel (in Japanese), 5, 116, 1992, pp. 146-157.

R. Bakalash, A,Kaufman, and Z. Xu, Cube-3:Building a Full Scale VLSI-Based Volume Visualization System, Advances in Graphics Hardware V, R. Grimsdaleand A. Kaufman, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992, pp. 109-116.

1991 Publications

R. Yagel, A.Kaufman, and Q. Zhang, Realistic Volume Imaging, IEEE Visualization '91 Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, October 1991, pp. 226-231& 425. (PDF)

A. Kaufman, Volume Visualization, IEEE Computer Society Press Tutorial, Los Alamitos, CA, 1991.

A. Kaufman, Introduction to Volume Synthesis, Scientific Visualization of Physical Phenomena, N.Patrikalakis, Ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1991, pp. 25-35.

R. Yagel, D. Cohen,and A. Kaufman, Context Sensitive Normal Estimation for Volume Imaging, Scientific Visualization of Physical Phenomena, N.Patrikalakis, Ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1991, pp. 211-234.

A. Kaufman, 3D Volume Visualization, Advances in Computer Graphics VI, G. Garcia and I. Herman, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin,1991, pp. 175-203.

A. Kaufman, R.Bakalash, and D. Cohen, Viewing and Rendering Processor for a Volume Visualization System, Advances in Graphics Hardware IV, R.Grimsdale and W. Strasser, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1991, pp. 171-178.

A. Kaufman, The Voxblt Engine: A Voxel FrameBuffer Processor, Advances in Graphics Hardware III, A. Kuijk and W. Strasser, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin,1991, pp. 85-102.

D. Cohen and A.Kaufman, Scan-Conversion Algorithms for Linear and Quadratic Objects, Volume Visualization, IEEE Computer SocietyPress, Los Alamitos, CA, 1991, pp. 280-301.

A. Giacalone and A. Kaufman, Tools for Interactive Prototyping of 2D and 3D User Interface, Human-Machine Interactive Systems, A. Klinger,Ed., Plenum Publishing, New York, 1991, pp. 235-253.

A. Kaufman and R.Yagel, Toward a Three-Dimensional User Interface, Human-Machine Interactive Systems, A. Klinger, Ed., Plenum Publishing, New York, 1991, pp. 255-267.

1990 Publications

A. Kaufman, R.Bakalash, D. Cohen, and R. Yagel, Architecture for Volume Rendering - A Survey, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, December1990, pp. 18-23.

A. Kaufman, R.Yagel, R. Bakalash, and I. Spector, Volume Visualization in Cell Biology, IEEE Visualization Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, October 1990, pp. 160167. (PDF)

D. Cohen, A.Kaufman, R. Bakalash, and S. Bergman, Real Time Discrete Shading, The Visual Computer, No. 1, February, 1990, pp. 16-27.

A. Kaufman, R.Yagel, and D. Cohen, Intermixing Surface and Volume Rendering, 3D Imaging in Medicine: Algorithms, Systems,applications, K. H. Hoehne, H.Fuchs, S. M. Pizer, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990, pp. 217-227.

1989 Publications

A. Kaufman and A. Bandopadhay, Forest of Quadtrees: An Object Representation for 3D Graphics, in Proceedings Eurographics, W. Hansmann, F. Hopgood, and W. Strasser, Eds., North Holland, Amsterdam, September 1989, pp. 221-234.

A. Kaufman and R. Bakalash, Parallel Processing for 3D Voxel-Based Graphics, Parallel Processing for Computer Vision and Display, P. M. Dew, R. A. Earnshaw, and T. R. Heywood, Eds., Addison-Wesley, Wokingham, England, 1989, pp. 471-478.

R. Bakalash and A. Kaufman, MediCube: a 3D Medical Imaging Architecture, Computers & Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 1989, pp. 151-157.

1988 Publications

A. Kaufman, The CUBE Workstation - a 3-D Voxel-Based Graphics Environment, The Visual Computer, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1988, pp. 210-221.

A. Kaufman, TSL - A Texture Synthesis Language, The Visual Computer, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1988,pp. 148-158.

A. Kaufman, Efficient Algorithms for Scan-Converting 3D Polygons, Computer & Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1988, pp. 213-219.

A. Kaufman and R.Bakalash, Memory and Processing Architecture for 3-D Voxel-Based Imagery, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol.8, No. 6, November, 1988, pp. 10-23.

A. Kaufman, A Two-Dimensional Frame Buffer Processor, Advances in Graphics Hardware II, A. Kuijkand W. Strasser, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988, pp. 93-109.

A. Kaufman and R.Bakalash, CUBE - An Architecture Based on a 3-D Voxed Map, Theoretical Foundations of Computer Graphics and CAD, R. A.Earnshaw, Ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988, pp. 689-701.

1987 Publications

A. Kaufman, An Algorithms for 3D Scan-Conversion of Polygons, Proceedings Eurographics, August 1987, G. Marechal, Ed., North Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 197-208.

A. Kaufman, Efficient Algorithms for 3D Scan-Conversion of Parametric Curves, Surfaces, and Volumes, Computer Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 3, July 1987, pp. 171-179. (PDF)

A. Kaufman, Towards a 3-D Graphics Workstation, Advances in Graphics Hardware I, W. Strasser, Ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987, pp. 17-26.

1986 Publications

A. Kaufman and E. Shimony, 3D Scan-Conversion Algorithms for Voxel-Based Graphics, Proceedings of 1986 ACM Workshop on Interactive 3D Graphics, Chapel-Hill, NC, October 1986, pp. 45-76. (PDF)

A. Kaufman, Voxel-Based Architectures for Three-Dimensional Graphics, Information Processing, H. Kugler, Ed., Vol. 10, September 1986, pp. 361-366.

A. Kaufman, Memory Organization for a Cubic Frame Buffer, Proceedings Eurographics, August 1986, A. Requicha, Ed., North Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 93-100.

A. Kaufman, Computer Artist's Color Naming System, The Visual Computer, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1986, pp. 255-260.

1985 Publications

A. Kaufman and R. Bakalash, A 3-D Cellular Frame Buffer, Proceedings Eurographics, September 1985, C. Vandoni, Ed., North Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 215-220.

A. Kaufman and S. Azaria, Texture Synthesis Techniques for Computer Graphics, Computer & Graphics, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1985, pp. 139-145.