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D. Koerner, J. Portsmouth, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl, B. Eberhardt:

Flux-Limited Diffusion for Multiple Scattering in Participating Media

Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 178–189, 2014.

Abstract

For the rendering of multiple scattering effects in participating media, methods based on the diffusion approximation are an extremely efficient alternative to Monte Carlo path tracing. However, in sufficiently transparent regions, classical diffusion approximation suffers from non-physical radiative fluxes which leads to a poor match to correct light transport. In particular, this prevents the application of classical diffusion approximation to heterogeneous media, where opaque material is embedded within transparent regions. To address this limitation, we introduce flux-limited diffusion, a technique from the astrophysics domain. This method provides a better approximation to light transport than classical diffusion approximation, particularly when applied to heterogeneous media, and hence broadens the applicability of diffusion-based techniques. We provide an algorithm for flux-limited diffusion, which is validated using the transport theory for a point light source in an infinite homogeneous medium. We further demonstrate that our implementation of flux-limited diffusion produces more accurate renderings of multiple scattering in various heterogeneous datasets than classical diffusion approximation, by comparing both methods to ground truth renderings obtained via volumetric path tracing.

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Publications

2022
Reviewed Conference Papers
M. Heinemann, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl:
Interactive Visualization of Droplet Dynamic Processes
In Droplet Dynamics Under Extreme Ambient Conditions, Springer International Publishing, pp. 29–46, 2022.
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A. Straub, S. Boblest, G. K. Karch, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl:
Droplet-Local Line Integration for Multiphase Flow
In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS), pp. 135–139, 2022.
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2021
Reviewed Journal Papers
B. Zheng, F. Sadlo:
Uncertainty in Continuous Scatterplots, Continuous Parallel Coordinates, and Fibers
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1819–1828, 2021.
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M. Heinemann, S. Frey, G. Tkachev, A. Straub, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl:
Visual analysis of droplet dynamics in large-scale multiphase spray simulations
Journal of Visualization, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 943–961, 2021.
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F. Lang, M. F. Contreras-Gerenas, M. Gelléri, J. Neumann, O. Kröger, F. Sadlo, K. Berniak, A. Marx, C. Cremer, H.-A. Wagenknecht, H. Allgayer:
Tackling Tumour Cell Heterogeneity at the Super-Resolution Level in Human Colorectal Cancer Tissue
Cancers, vol. 13, no. 15, pp. 3692, 2021.
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Reviewed Conference Papers
T. Bin Masood, J. Budin, M. Falk, G. Favelier, C. Garth, C. Gueunet, P. Guillou, L. Hofmann, P. Hristov, A. Kamakshidasan, C. Kappe, P. Klacansky, P. Laurin, J. A. Levine, J. Lukasczyk, D. Sakurai, M. Soler, P. Steneteg, J. Tierny, W. Usher, J. Vidal, M. Wozniak:
An Overview of the Topology ToolKit
In Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization VI, Springer International Publishing, pp. 359–373, 2021.
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2019
Reviewed Journal Papers
B. Zheng, B. Rieck, H. Leitte, F. Sadlo:
Visualization of Equivalence in 2D Bivariate Fields
Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 311–323, 2019.
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2018
Reviewed Conference Papers
K. Sdeo, B. Zheng, M. Piatkowski, F. Sadlo:
In-Situ Visualization of Solver Residual Fields
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: High Performance Computing, pp. 294–309, 2018.
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A. Straub, G. K. Karch, S. Boblest, J. Kaufmann, F. Sadlo, B. Weigand, T. Ertl:
Visual Analysis of Interface Deformation in Multiphase Flow
In Proceedings of the DIPSI Workshop 2018. Droplet Impact Phenomena & Spray Investigations, 2018.
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2017
Reviewed Journal Papers
M. Bußler, P. Diehl, D. Pflüger, S. Frey, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl, M. A. Schweitzer:
Visualization of Fracture Progression in Peridynamics
Computers & Graphics, vol. 67, pp. 45–57, 2017.
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2016
Reviewed Conference Papers
S. Boblest, F. Hempert, M. Hoffmann, P. Offenhäuser, M. Sonntag, F. Sadlo, C. W. Glass, C.-D. Munz, T. Ertl, U. Iben:
Toward a Discontinuous Galerkin Fluid Dynamics Framework for Industrial Applications
In Proceedings of High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering 2015, Springer International Publishing, pp. 531–545, 2016.
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2015
Reviewed Conference Papers
S. Frey, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl:
Balanced Sampling and Compression for Remote Visualization
In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium on Visualization in High Performance Computing, pp. 1:1–1:4, 2015.
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S. Heßel, O. Fernandes, S. Boblest, P. Offenhäuser, M. Hoffmann, A. Beck, T. Ertl, C. Glass, C.-D. Munz, F. Sadlo:
Visualization of 2D Wave Propagation by Huygens' Principle
In Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), pp. 19–28, 2015.
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Book Chapters and Other Publications
T. Bolemann, M. Üffinger, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl, C.-D. Munz:
Direct Visualization of Piecewise Polynomial Data
In IDIHOM: Industrialization of High-Order Methods - A Top-Down Approach, Springer International Publishing, pp. 535–550, 2015.
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2014
Reviewed Journal Papers
M. Ament, F. Sadlo, C. Dachsbacher, D. Weiskopf:
Low-Pass Filtered Volumetric Shadows
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 2437–2446, 2014.
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S. Frey, F. Sadlo, K.-L. Ma, T. Ertl:
Interactive Progressive Visualization with Space-Time Error Control
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 2397–2406, 2014.
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D. Koerner, J. Portsmouth, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl, B. Eberhardt:
Flux-Limited Diffusion for Multiple Scattering in Participating Media
Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 178–189, 2014.
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Reviewed Conference Papers
O. Fernandes, S. Frey, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl:
Space-Time Volumetric Depth Images for In-Situ Visualization
In Proceedings of IEEE 4th Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), pp. 59–65, 2014.
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Book Chapters and Other Publications
S. Boblest, C. W. Glass, P. Offenhäuser, F. Sadlo, M. Hoffmann:
HONK - Higher-Order Methods for the Simulation of Complex Flow Phenomena
Innovatives Supercomputing in Deutschland (inSiDE), Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 67–71, 2014.
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2013
Reviewed Journal Papers
M. Ament, F. Sadlo, D. Weiskopf:
Ambient Volume Scattering
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 2936–2945, 2013.
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K. Scharnowski, M. Krone, F. Sadlo, P. Beck, J. Roth, H.-R. Trebin, T. Ertl:
Visualizing Polarization Domains in Barium Titanate
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 9–17, 2013.
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Reviewed Conference Papers
S. Frey, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl:
Mesh Generation from Layered Depth Images Using Isosurface Raycasting
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Advances in Visual Computing (Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 373–383, 2013.
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S. Frey, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl:
Explorable Volumetric Depth Images from Raycasting
In Proceedings of 26th SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, pp. 123–130, 2013.
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2012
Reviewed Journal Papers
S. Frey, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl:
Visualization of Temporal Similarity in Field Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 2023–2032, 2012.
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Reviewed Conference Papers
G. M. Machado, F. Sadlo, T. Müller, D. Müller, T. Ertl:
Visualizing Solar Dynamics Data
In Proceedings of International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), pp. 95–102, 2012.
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2011
Reviewed Journal Papers
C. Pagot, D. Osmari, F. Sadlo, D. Weiskopf, T. Ertl, J. Comba:
Efficient Parallel Vectors Feature Extraction from Higher-Order Data
Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 751–760, 2011.
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Reviewed Conference Papers
M. Üffinger, M. A. Schweitzer, F. Sadlo, T. Ertl:
Direct Visualization of Particle-Partition of Unity Data
In Proceedings of International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), pp. 255–262, 2011.
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C. Pagot, J. Vollrath, F. Sadlo, D. Weiskopf, T. Ertl, J. L. Comba:
Interactive Isocontouring of High-Order Surfaces
In Scientific Visualization: Interactions, Features, Metaphors, Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, pp. 276–291, 2011.
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Book Chapters and Other Publications
F. Sadlo, M. Üffinger, C. Pagot, D. Osmari, J. Comba, T. Ertl, C.-D. Munz, D. Weiskopf:
Visualization of Cell-Based Higher-Order Fields
Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 84–91, 2011.
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2008
Reviewed Conference Papers
R. Peikert, F. Sadlo:
Height Ridge Computation and Filtering for Visualization
In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVIS), pp. 119–126, 2008.
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2003
Book Chapters and Other publications
C. Bron, F. Sadlo, J. S. Schittny, P. H. Burri:
Microtomography and 3D Skeleton Analysis of Vascular and Airway Trees
In Proceedings of Focus on Microscopy, 2003.
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1994
Reviewed Conference Papers
C. Bron, F. Sadlo, G. Szekely, W. Neuenschwander, O. Kübler, J. Schüpbach:
Segmentation and Visualization of Membranes and Intracellular Organelles Contours in 3D Electron Microscopy
In Proceedings of SPIE 2359, Visualization in Biomedical Computing, pp. 706–714, 1994.
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