Visual Quality Adjustment for Volume Rendering in a Head-Tracked Virtual Environment

To avoid simulator sickness and improve presence in immersive virtual environments (IVEs), high frame rates and low latency are required. In contrast, volume rendering applications typically strive for high visual quality that induces high computational load and, thus, leads to low frame rates. To e...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 22(2016), 4 vom: 09. Apr., Seite 1472-81
Auteur principal: Hänel, Claudia (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Weyers, Benjamin, Hentschel, Bernd, Kuhlen, Torsten W
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2016
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Sujets:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Résumé:To avoid simulator sickness and improve presence in immersive virtual environments (IVEs), high frame rates and low latency are required. In contrast, volume rendering applications typically strive for high visual quality that induces high computational load and, thus, leads to low frame rates. To evaluate this trade-off in IVEs, we conducted a controlled user study with 53 participants. Search and count tasks were performed in a CAVE with varying volume rendering conditions which are applied according to viewer position updates corresponding to head tracking. The results of our study indicate that participants preferred the rendering condition with continuous adjustment of the visual quality over an instantaneous adjustment which guaranteed for low latency and over no adjustment providing constant high visual quality but rather low frame rates. Within the continuous condition, the participants showed best task performance and felt less disturbed by effects of the visualization during movements. Our findings provide a good basis for further evaluations of how to accelerate volume rendering in IVEs according to user's preferences
Description:Date Completed 20.07.2016
Date Revised 19.03.2016
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2016.2518338