Poster: An Interactive, Visual Composite Tuner for Multi-layer Spatial Data Sets

Abstract

Packing high-dimensional data into comprehensible visualizations is difficult. A number of techniques exist to composite multiple layers of data. However, these techniques require a lot of parameter manipulation to achieve an image in which each layer can be segmented from the others over the entire surface. We propose an interactive multi-view system for creating multi-layer composites and setting the parameters of the data mapping in real-time. We developed efficient, hardware-accelerated implementations of two multilayer techniques, Data-Driven Spots and Oriented Slivers. Our prototype application allows for interactive parameter tuning of custom techniques written in HLSL and visual exploration of the data using these parameters, including the manipulation of piecewise transfer functions between layer intensity and opacity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA638061

Entities

People

  • Jonathan W. Decker
  • Mark A. Livingston

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Composite Materials
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Sets
  • Data Visualization
  • Electronic Mail
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Graphics
  • Images
  • Intensity
  • Military Research
  • Segmented
  • Transfer Functions
  • User Interface
  • Visualizations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Microwave Engineering.