Novel 3D Interaction Techniques for Analyzing Volume Data

Manual and automatic segmentation of raw volumetric data is a very time consuming but important process for volume data analysis. We propose to create a suite of 3D interaction tools for interactive coarse segmentation of raw volumetric datasets, aimed at cutting down the time for initial segmentation drastically, to just a few minutes. We outline our plans to evaluate these different 3D interaction tools for the various tasks performed by scientists for analyzing volume datasets, by leveraging a generic task taxonomy mapping the tasks for volume data analysis from various scientific domains. Based on our research findings, we plan to design semi-immersive workstations packaged with our suite of 3D interaction tools for improving the effectiveness of volume data analysis.

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title = {Design of the Bare-Hand Volume Cracker for Analysis of Raw Volumetric Data},

author = {Bireswar Laha and Doug A Bowman},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-03-01},

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@conference{177,

title = {Interactive Coarse Segmentation and Analysis of Volume Data with a Suite of 3D Interaction Tools},

author = {Bireswar Laha and Doug A Bowman},

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booktitle = {IEEE VR Workshop on Immersive Volume Interaction (WIVI)},

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@proceedings{191,

title = {Volume Cracker: A Bimanual 3D Interaction Technique for Analysis of Raw Volumetric Data},

author = {Bireswar Laha and Doug A Bowman},

doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2491367.2491368},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-07-01},

journal = {2013 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI)},

pages = {61-68},

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