Saliency-guided Enhancement for Volume Visualization

TitleSaliency-guided Enhancement for Volume Visualization
Publication TypeJournal Articles
Year of Publication2006
AuthorsKim Y, Varshney A
JournalVisualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on
Volume12
Issue5
Pagination925 - 932
Date Published2006/10//sept
ISBN Number1077-2626
KeywordsComputer-Assisted;Imaging, Ocular;Humans;Image Enhancement;Image Interpretation, saliency-guided enhancement;visual-saliency-based operator;volume rendering;volume visualization;data visualisation;rendering (computer graphics);Algorithms;Attention;Computer Graphics;Eye Movements;Fixation, Three-Dimensional;User-Computer Interface;
Abstract

Recent research in visual saliency has established a computational measure of perceptual importance. In this paper we present a visual-saliency-based operator to enhance selected regions of a volume. We show how we use such an operator on a user-specified saliency field to compute an emphasis field. We further discuss how the emphasis field can be integrated into the visualization pipeline through its modifications of regional luminance and chrominance. Finally, we validate our work using an eye-tracking-based user study and show that our new saliency enhancement operator is more effective at eliciting viewer attention than the traditional Gaussian enhancement operator

DOI10.1109/TVCG.2006.174