Adaptive Multilinear Tensor Product Wavelets

Many foundational visualization techniques including isosurfacing, direct volume rendering and texture mapping rely on piecewise multilinear interpolation over the cells of a mesh. However, there has not been much focus within the visualization community on techniques that efficiently generate and e...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 22(2016), 1 vom: 24. Jan., Seite 985-94
Auteur principal: Weiss, Kenneth (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Lindstrom, Peter
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2016
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Sujets:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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Résumé:Many foundational visualization techniques including isosurfacing, direct volume rendering and texture mapping rely on piecewise multilinear interpolation over the cells of a mesh. However, there has not been much focus within the visualization community on techniques that efficiently generate and encode globally continuous functions defined by the union of multilinear cells. Wavelets provide a rich context for analyzing and processing complicated datasets. In this paper, we exploit adaptive regular refinement as a means of representing and evaluating functions described by a subset of their nonzero wavelet coefficients. We analyze the dependencies involved in the wavelet transform and describe how to generate and represent the coarsest adaptive mesh with nodal function values such that the inverse wavelet transform is exactly reproduced via simple interpolation (subdivision) over the mesh elements. This allows for an adaptive, sparse representation of the function with on-demand evaluation at any point in the domain. We focus on the popular wavelets formed by tensor products of linear B-splines, resulting in an adaptive, nonconforming but crack-free quadtree (2D) or octree (3D) mesh that allows reproducing globally continuous functions via multilinear interpolation over its cells
Description:Date Completed 05.02.2016
Date Revised 04.11.2015
published: Print
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467412