Publications
2018
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Kernel Foveated Rendering
Xiaoxu Meng, Ruofei Du, and Amitabh Varshney
To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 2018 (PACM on CGIT 2018)
To be presented on 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D 2018)
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Montage4D: Interactive Seamless Fusion of Multiview Video Textures
Ruofei Du, Ming Chuang, Wayne Chang, Hugues Hoppe, and Amitabh Varshney
To appear in the Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D 2018)
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Spatial Mnemonics Using Virtual Reality
Eric Krokos, Catherine Plaisant, and Amitabh Varshney
To appear in 2018 the 2nd International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality Simulations (ICVARS 2018)
2016-2017
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Winnow: Interactive Visualization of Temporal Changes in Multidimensional Clinical Data.
Hsueh-Chien Cheng, Rainer von Coelln, Ann L Gruber-Baldini, Lisa M Shulman, and Amitabh Varshney
Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics.
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Interactive Exploration of Microstructural Features in Gigapixel Microscopy Images.
Hsueh-Chien Cheng, Antonio Cardone, and Amitabh Varshney
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2017
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Deep-learning-assisted Visualization for Live-Cell Images.
Hsueh-Chien Cheng, Antonio Cardone, Eric Krokos, Bogdan Stoica, Alan Faden, and Amitabh Varshney
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2017
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Volume Segmentation Using Convolutional Neural Networks With Limited Training Data.
Hsueh-Chien Cheng and Amitabh Varshney
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2017.
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Tracking Fluctuation Hotspots on the Yeast Ribosome Through the Elongation Cycle.
preprint
Suna P. Gulay, Sujal Bista, Amitabh Varshney, Serdal Kirmizialtin, Karissa Y. Sanbonmatsu, and Jonathan D. Dinman
Nucleic Acids Research
Vol. 1, No. 1, Feb. 2017, pp 1-13.
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Kinetic Depth Images: Flexible Generation of Depth Perception.
video
preprint
Sujal Bista, caro Lins Leitão da Cunha, and Amitabh Varshney
The Visual Computer
Vol. 1, No. 1, May. 2016, pp 1-13.
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Social Street View: Blending Immersive Street Views with Geo-Tagged Social Media.
video
slides
preprint
Ruofei Du and Amitabh Varshney
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web3D Technology
Aug. 2016, pp 77-85.
ACM Web3D 2016
Best Paper Award News
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Video Fields: Fusing Multiple Surveillance Videos into a Dynamic Virtual Environment.
video
slides
preprint
Ruofei Du, Sujal Bista, and Amitabh Varshney
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web3D Technology
Aug. 2016, pp 165-172.
ACM Web3D 2016
2013-2015
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Visual Knowledge Discovery for Diffusion Kurtosis Datasets of the Human Brain.
youtube
code
Sujal Bista, Jiachen Zhuo, Rao P. Gullapalli, and Amitabh Varshney
Visualization and Processing of Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data
Vol. 1, No. 1, July. 2015, pp 213-234.
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Visualization of Brain Microstructure through Spherical Harmonics Illumination of High Fidelity Spatio-Angular Fields.
youtube
code
mp4
Sujal Bista, Jiachen Zhuo, Rao P. Gullapalli, and Amitabh Varshney
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Vol. 20, No. 12, Dec. 2014, pp 2516-2525.
IEEE SciVis
Best Paper Award
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Using GPUs for realtime prediction of optical forces on microsphere ensembles
youtube
video
Sujal Bista, Sagar Chowdhury, Satyandra. K. Gupta, and Amitabh Varshney
ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
Vol. 13, No. 3, Apr 2013, pp 031002.
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Parallel Geometric Classification of Stem Cells by their 3D Morphology
D. Juba, A. Cardone, C. Y. Ip, C. G. Simon Jr., C. K. Tison, G. Kumar, M. Brady, and A. Varshney
Computational Science & Discovery
Vol. 6, No. 1, 015007, 2013.
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PixelPie: Maximal Poisson-disk Sampling with Rasterization
video
code
C.Y. Ip, M.A. Yalcin, D. Luebke and A. Varshney
High-Performance Graphics
2013, pp 17 - 26.
2011-2012
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Hierarchical Exploration of Volumes Using Multilevel
Segmentation of the Intensity-Gradient Histograms
video
code
C.Y. Ip, A. Varshney, and J. JaJa
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Vol. 18, No. 12, 2012, pp 2355 - 2363.
IEEE SciVis
Best Paper Award
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Using GPUs for Realtime Prediction of Optical Forces on Microsphere Ensembles
S. Bista, S. Chowdhury, S.K. Gupta, and A. Varshney
ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
August 2012.
Best Paper Award
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Speeding Up Particle Trajectory Simulations under Moving Force
Fields using GPUs
R. Patro, J.P. Dickerson, S. Bista, S.K. Gupta, and A. Varshney
ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
Vol. 12, 021006, 2012.
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Saliency-Assisted Navigation of Very Large Landscape Images
video
code
C.Y. Ip, and A. Varshney
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Vol. 17, No. 12, 2011, pp 1737 - 1746.
IEEE Visualization
Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award
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MDMap : A System for Data-Driven Layout and Exploration of Molecular Dynamics Simulations
video
R. Patro, C.Y. Ip, S. Bista, S.S. Cho, D. Thirumalai, and A. Varshney
IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization
October 2011.
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Salient Frame Detection for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Y. Kim, R. Patro, C.Y. Ip, D. P. O'Leary, A. Anishkin, S. Sukharev,
and A. Varshney
Scientific Visualization: Interactions, Features, Metaphors, Dagstuhl Follow-Ups
Vol. 2, 2011, pp 160 - 175
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A Robust and Rotationally Invariant Local Surface Descriptor with
Applications to Non-local Mesh Processing
A. Maximo, R. Patro, A. Varshney, and R. Farias
Graphical Models
Vol. 73, No. 5, 2011, pp 231 - 242.
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Social Snapshot: A system for temporally coupled social photography
video
R. Patro, C.Y. Ip, S. Bista, and A. Varshney
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Vol. 31, No. 1, 2011, pp 74 - 84.
2009-2010
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Saliency Guided Summarization of Molecular Dynamics Simulations
(BibTex)
R. Patro, C.Y. Ip, and A. Varshney
Scientific Visualization: Advanced Concepts, Dagstuhl
Follow-Ups
Vol. 1, 2010, pp 321 - 335.
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Mesh Saliency and Human Eye Fixations
(BibTex)
Y. Kim, A. Varshney, D. Jacobs, and F.Guimbretiere
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
Vol. 7, No. 2, 2010, pp 1 - 13.
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Salient Clustering for View-dependent Multiresolution Rendering
(BibTex)
R. Barni, J.L.D. Comba, and A. Varshney
SIBGRAPI
2009.
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Modeling and Visualization of Human Activities for Multicamera Networks
(BibTex)
A. Sankaranarayanan, R. Patro, P. Turaga, A. Varshney, and R. Chellappa
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Vol. 2009, 2009.
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Saliency-Guided Lighting
(BibTex)
C. H. Lee., Y. Kim, and A. Varshney
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
Vol. E92-D, No. 2, 2009, pp 369 - 373.
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Using Graphics Processors for High-Performance Computation and Visualization of Plasma Turbulence
(BibTex)
G. Stantchev, D. Juba, W. Dorland, and A. Varshney
IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering
Vol. 11, No. 2, 2009, pp 52 - 59.
2007 - 2008
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Parallel Stochastic Measurement of Molecular Surface Area
(BibTex)
code
D. Juba and A. Varshney
Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling
Vol. 27, No. 1, August 2008, pp 82 - 87.
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Confluent Volumetric Visualization of Gyrokinetic Turbulence
(BibTex)
G. Stantchev, D. Juba, W. Dorland, and A. Varshney
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Vol. 36, No. 4, August 2008, pp 1112 - 1113.
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Persuading Visual Attention through Geometry
(BibTex)
Y. Kim and A. Varshney
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Vol. 14, No. 4, July 2008, pp 772 - 782.
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Modelling and Rendering Large Volume Data with Gaussian Radial Basis Functions
Derek Juba and Amitabh Varshney
Tech. Rep. UMIACS-TR-2007-22, University of Maryland, College Park
2007.
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High-throughput sequence alignment using Graphics Processing Units
(BibTex)
M. C. Schatz, C. Trapnell, A. L. Delcher, and A. Varshney
BMC Bioinformatics
Vol. 8: 474, December 2007.
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On Implementing Graph Cuts on CUDA
(BibTex)
Mohamed Hussein, Amitabh Varshney, and Larry Davis
First Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units
October 2007.
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An Efficient and Scalable Parallel Algorithm for
Out-of-core Isosurface Extraction and Rendering
(BibTex)
Q. Wang, J. JaJa, and A. Varshney
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Vol. 67, No. 5, May 2007, pp 592 - 603.
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A Fast All-Nearest-Neighbor Algorithm for Applications
Involving Large Point-Clouds
(BibTex)
J. Sankaranarayanan, H. Samet, and
A. Varshney
Computers and Graphics
Vol. 31, No. 2, April 2007, pp 157 - 174.
Best Paper of the Year Award, Computers and Graphics Journal, 2007
2005 - 2006
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Geometry-guided Computation of 3D Electrostatics for Large Biomolecules
(BibTex)
X. Hao and A. Varshney
Journal of Computer-aided Geometric Design
Vol. 23, No. 6, August 2006, pp 545 - 557.
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Saliency-guided Enhancement for Volume Visualization
(BibTex)
Y. Kim and A. Varshney
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Visualization)
Vol. 12, No. 5, September 2006, pp 925 - 932.
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Vertex-Transformation Streams
(BibTex)
Y. Kim, C. H. Lee, and A. Varshney
Graphical Models
Vol 68, No. 4, July 2006, pp 371 - 383.
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A Fast k-Neighborhood Algorithm for Large Point Clouds
J. Sankaranarayanan, H. Samet, and A. Varshney
Proceedings of the Symposium on Point-Based Graphics
July 29 - 30, 2006, Boston, MA
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An Efficient and Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Out-of-Core Isosurface Extraction and Rendering
Q. Wang, J. JaJa, and A. Varshney
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'06)
April 25 - 29, 2006, Rhodes Island, Greece
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Geometry-dependent Lighting
(BibTex)
C. H. Lee, X. Hao and A. Varshney
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Vol 12, No. 2, March 2006, pp 197 - 207.
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Mesh Saliency
(BibTex)
C. H. Lee, A. Varshney, and D. Jacobs
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005)
Vol 24, No 3, August 2005, pp 659 - 666.
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Statistical Geometry Representation for Efficient Transmission and Rendering
(BibTex)
A. Kalaiah and A. Varshney
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Vol 24, No 2, April 2005, pp 348 - 373
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Unsupervised Learning Applied to Progressive Compression of Time-Dependent Geometry
(BibTex)
T. Baby, Y. Kim, and A. Varshney
Computers and Graphics
Vol 29, No 3, June 2005, pp 451 - 461
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Computing and Displaying Intermolecular Negative Volume for Docking
(BibTex)
C. H. Lee and A. Varshney
Scientific Visualization:
The Visual Extraction of Knowledge from Data
Editors: G.-P. Bonneau, T. Ertl, G. M. Nielson, Springer-Verlag, 2005,
ISBN: 3-540-26066-8
2003 - 2004
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Light Collages: Lighting Design for Feature-Enhanced Visualization
(BibTex)
C. H. Lee, X. Hao, and A. Varshney
IEEE Visualization '04
October 10 - 15, 2004, Austin, TX, pp 281 - 288.
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Efficient Solution of Poisson-Boltzmann Equation for Electrostatics of Large Molecules
(BibTex)
X. Hao and A. Varshney
High-Performance Computing Symposium
April 18 - 22, 2004, Arlington, VA, pp 71 - 76.
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Real-Time Visualization of Large Time-Varying Molecules
(BibTex)
X. Hao, A. Varshney, and S. Sukharev
High-Performance Computing Symposium
April 18 - 22, 2004, Arlington, VA, pp 109 - 114.
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Real-Time Rendering of Translucent Meshes
(BibTex)
X. Hao and A. Varshney
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Vol 23, No 2, April 2004, pp 120 - 142
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Statistical Point Geometry
video
(BibTex)
A. Kalaiah and A. Varshney
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing
Editors: L. Kobbelt, P. Schroeder, H. Hoppe
June 23 - 25, 2003, Aachen, Germany, pp 107 - 115.
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Interactive Subsurface Scattering for Translucent Meshes
video
(BibTex)
X. Hao, T. Baby, and A. Varshney
ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
April 28 - 30, 2003, Monterey, CA, pp 75 - 82.
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Modeling and Rendering of Points with Local Geometry
(BibTex)
A. Kalaiah and A. Varshney
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Vol. 9, No. 1, January 2003, pp 30 - 42.
2001 - 2002
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Hierarchical Image-based and Polygon-based Rendering for Large-Scale Visualizations
(BibTex)
C. Chang, Z. Li, A. Varshney, and Q. J. Ge
Hierarchical and Geometric Methods in Scientific Visualization ,
Springer Series: Mathematics and Visualization,
Editors H. Hagen, G. Farin, and B. Hamann,
ISBN 3-540-43313-9, pages 329 - 346, 2002.
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Level of Detail for 3D Graphics
(BibTex)
D. Luebke, M. Reddy, J. Cohen, A. Varshney, B. Watson, and R. Huebner
Morgan-Kaufmann, Inc.
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A Real-Time Seamless Tiled Display for 3D Graphics
(BibTex)
Z. Li and A. Varshney
Proceedings, Seventh Annual Symposium on Immersive Projection Technology (IPT 2002)
March 24 - 25, 2002, Orlando, FL
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Representing Thermal Vibrations and Uncertainty in Molecular
Surfaces
(BibTex)
C. H. Lee and A. Varshney
Proceedings SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis
January 20 - 25, 2002, San Jose, CA
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Differential Point Rendering
video
(BibTex)
A. Kalaiah and A. Varshney
Rendering Techniques '01
editors S. J. Gortler and K. Myszkowski, Springer-Verlag, August 2001, pp. 139 - 150.
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Variable-Precision Rendering
(BibTex)
X. Hao and A. Varshney
Proceedings, ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
March 19 - 21, 2001, Research Triangle Park, NC, pp 149 - 158
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Haptic and Aural Rendering of a Virtual Milling Process
(BibTex)
C. Chang, A. Varshney, and Q. J. Ge
Proceedings, ASME Sixth Design for Manufacturing Conference
Sept 9 - 12, 2001, Pittsburgh, PA, DETC2001/DFM21170.
1999 - 2000
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Continously-Adaptive Haptic Rendering
(BibTex)
J. El-Sana and A. Varshney
Virtual Environments 2000
editors J. Mulder and R. van Liere, Springer-Verlag, 2000, pp. 135 - 144
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Efficiently Computing and Updating Triangle Strips for Real-Time Rendering
(BibTex)
J. El-Sana, F. Evans, A. Kalaiah, A. Varshney, S. Skiena, and E. Azanli
Computer-Aided Design
Vol. 32, No. 13, Nov 2000, pp 753 - 772
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Hierarchical Rendering for Large-scale Visualizations
(BibTex)
C. Chang, A. Varshney, Q. J. Ge
Proceedings of the NSF/DoE Lake Tahoe Workshop on Hierarchical Approximation and Geometrical
Methods for Scientific Visualization
Tahoe City, CA, Oct 15 - 17, 2000
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Skip Strips: Maintaining Triangle Strips for View Dependent Rendering
(BibTex)
J. El-Sana, E. Azanli, and A. Varshney
IEEE Visualization '99
Oct 24 - 29, 1999, San Francisco, CA, pp 131 - 138.
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Generalized View-Dependent Simplification
(BibTex)
J. El-Sana and A. Varshney
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics '99)
Volume 18, Number 3, 1999, pp 83 - 94
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View-Dependent Topology Simplification
(BibTex)
J. El-Sana and A. Varshney
Virtual Environments '99
editors M. Gervautz, A. Hildebrand, D. Schmalstieg,
Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp 11 - 22
1997 - 1998
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Topology Simplification for Polygonal Virtual Environments
(BibTex)
J. El-Sana and A. Varshney
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1998, pp 133 - 144
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Walkthroughs of Complex Environments using Image-Based Simplification
(BibTex)
L. Darsa, B. Costa, and A. Varshney
Computers and Graphics
Vol. 22, No. 1, January 1998, pp 25 - 34
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Controlled Simplification of Genus for Polygonal Models
(BibTex)
J. El-Sana and A. Varshney
Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization '97
Oct 19 - Oct 24, 1997, Phoenix, AZ, pp 403 - 412
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Enabling Virtual Reality for Large-Scale Mechanical CAD Datasets
(BibTex)
A. Varshney, J. El-Sana, F. Evans, L. Darsa, B. Costa, and S. Skiena
Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
DETC97/DFM-4371, September 14 - 17, 1997, Sacramento, CA
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Adaptive Real-Time Level-of-detail-based Rendering for Polygonal Models
(BibTex)
J. Xia, J. El-Sana, and A. Varshney
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Vol. 3, No. 2, June 1997, pp 171 - 183
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CollabCAD: A Toolkit for Integrated Synchronous and Asynchronous Sharing of CAD Applications
(BibTex)
P. Mishra, A. Varshney, and A. Kaufman
Proceedings of the TeamCAD '97
May 12 - 13, 1997, Atlanta, GA, pp 131 - 137
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Navigating Static Environments Using Image-Space Simplification and Morphing
(BibTex)
L. Darsa, B. Costa, and A. Varshney
Proceedings of the Symposium on 3D Interactive Graphics
April 27 - 30, 1997, Providence, RI, pp 25 - 34
1995 - 1996
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Dynamic View-Dependent Simplification for Polygonal Models
(BibTex)
J. Xia and A. Varshney
Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization '96
Oct 27 - Nov 1, 1996, San Francisco, CA, pp 327 - 334
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Optimizing Triangle Strips for Fast Rendering
(BibTex)
F. Evans, S. Skiena, and A. Varshney
Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization '96
Oct 27 - Nov 1, 1996, San Francisco, CA, pp 319 - 326
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FINESSE: A Financial Information Spreadsheet
(BibTex)
A. Varshney and A. Kaufman
Proceedings of the Information Visualization '96
Oct 28 - 29, 1996, San Francisco, CA, pp 70 - 71
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Simplification Envelopes
(BibTex)
J. Cohen, A. Varshney, D. Manocha, G. Turk, H. Weber, P. Agarwal, F. P. Brooks, Jr. and W. V. Wright
SIGGRAPH 96 Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, ACM SIGGRAPH
Aug 4 - 9, 1996, New Orleans, LA, pp 119 - 128
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Stripe: A Software Tool For Efficient Triangle Strips
(BibTex)
F. Evans, S. Skiena and A. Varshney
Visual Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH
Aug 4 - 9, 1996, New Orleans, LA, pp 153
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Controlled Topology Simplification
(BibTex)
T. He, L. Hong, A. Varshney, and S. Wang
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Vol. 2, No. 2, June 1996, pp 171 - 184
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Defining, Computing, and Visualizing Molecular Interfaces
(BibTex)
A. Varshney, F. P. Brooks, Jr., D. C. Richardson, W. V. Wright, and D. Manocha
Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization '95
Oct 29 - Nov 3, 1995, Atlanta, GA, pp 36 - 43
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Voxel-Based Object Simplification
(BibTex)
T. He, L. Hong, A. Kaufman, A. Varshney, and S. Wang
Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization '95
Oct 29 - Nov 3, 1995, Atlanta, GA, pp 296 - 303
1992 - 1994
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Evaluating Surface Intersections in Lower Dimensions
(BibTex)
D. Manocha, A. Varshney, and H. Weber
Curves and Surfaces in Geometric Design
editors P. J. Laurent, A. Le Mehaute, and L. L. Schumaker, A. K. Peters, Ltd., pp 327 - 334, 1994.
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Linearly Scalable Computation of Smooth Molecular Surfaces
(BibTex)
A. Varshney, F. P. Brooks, Jr., and W. V. Wright
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Sept 1994, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp 19 - 25
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Interactive Visualization of Weighted Three-dimensional Alpha Hulls
(BibTex)
A. Varshney, F. P. Brooks, Jr., and W. V. Wright
Third Annual Video Review of Computational Geometry in Proceedings of the
Tenth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry
Stony Brook, NY, June 6 - 8, 1994, pp 395 - 396
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Fast Analytical Computation of Richards's Smooth Molecular Surface
(BibTex)
A. Varshney and F. P. Brooks, Jr.
Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization '93
Oct 25 - 29, 1993, San Jose, CA, pp 300 - 307.
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An Environment-Projection Approach to Radiosity for Mesh-Connected Computers
(BibTex)
A. Varshney and J. F. Prins
Proceedings of the Third Eurographics Workshop on Rendering
Bristol, England, May 17 - 20, 1992, pp 271 - 281
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Real-Time Procedural Textures
(BibTex)
J. Rhoades, G. Turk, A. Bell, A. State, U. Neumann, and A. Varshney
Computer Graphics
Vol. 25, No. 2, 1992, pp 95 - 100.
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