@inproceedings{7644c3c465504dc9b7cd3de7baf895d6,
title = "Accelerated volume rendering with Chebyshev distance maps",
abstract = "Volume rendering has useful applications with emerging technologies such as virtual and augmented reality. The high frame rate targets of these technologies poses a problem for volume rendering because of its very high computational complexity compared with conventional surface rendering. We developed an efficient empty space skipping algorithm for accelerating volume rendering. A distance map is generated which indicates the Chebyshev distance to the nearest occupied region (with non-transparent voxels) within a volume. The distance map is used to efficiently skip empty regions while volume ray casting. We show improved performance over state-of-the-art empty space skipping techniques.",
keywords = "Distance map, Empty space skipping, Ray casting, Volume rendering",
author = "Lachlan Deakin and Mark Knackstedt",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.; SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Technical Briefs - International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SA 2019 ; Conference date: 17-11-2019 Through 20-11-2019",
year = "2019",
month = nov,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1145/3355088.3365164",
language = "English",
series = "SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Technical Briefs, SA 2019",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "25--28",
booktitle = "SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Technical Briefs, SA 2019",
}