JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

"Arbitrary Topology Shape Reconstruction from Planar Cross Sections", (with K. Lin, E. Coyle), Graphical Models and Image Processing, vol 58, no 6, (1996), 524 - 543.

"Piecewise Rational Approximation of Real Algebraic Curves", (with G. Xu). Journal of Computational Mathematics, vol 17, no 1, (1997), 55 - 71.

"Reconstruction of Surfaces and Surfaces-on-Surfaces from Unorganized Weighted Points" (with F. Bernardini, G. Xu). Algorithmica, 19, (1997), 243-261.

"Modeling and Visualization of C 1 and C 2 Scattered Function Data on Curved Surfaces", (with G. Xu), Proc. of 2nd Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, PAC94, Beijing China, 19 - 29. Full version for publication in Computer Aided Geometric Design, (1997).

"Spline Approximations of Real Algebraic Surfaces", (with G. Xu). Journal of Symbolic Computation, Special Issue on Parametric Algebraic Curves and Applications, 23, (1997), 315 - 333.
"Sliced Conguration Spaces", (with E. Sacks). International Journal Of Robotics Research, 17, 6, (1998), 639 - 651.

"Rational Parameterizations of Nonsingular Cubic Surfaces", (with R. Holt and A. Netravali). ACM Transactions on Graphics, 17, 1, (1998), 1 - 31.

"Two and Three Dimensional Computer Graphic Evaluation of the Subacute Spinal Cord Injury", (with L. Moriarty, B. Duerstock, K. Lin, and R. Borgens). Journal Of Neurological Sciences, 155 (1998) 121 - 137.

"Topology Preserving Data Simplication with Error Bounds", (with D. Schikore), Journal on Computers and Graphics, 1998.

“Interrogative Visualization”, Geometric Modeling computing suppl. 13, 17-26(1998)
"Energy Formulation for A-Splines", (with R. Holt, A. Netravali) Computer Aided Geometric Design, 16 (1999) 39-59 , 1999.

"A-Splines: Local Interpolation and Approximation using G k -Continuous Piecewise Real Algebraic Curves", (with G. Xu) Computer Aided Geometric Design 16 (1999) pages 557-578.

"Automatic Reconstruction of 3D CAD Models from Digital Scans", (with F. Bernardini, J. Chen, D. Schikore) Int. J. on Comp. Geom. and Appl. vol. 9 nos. 4-5 Aug & Oct 1999, p 327, 1999.

“Tetrahedral Meshes from Planar Cross Sections”, (with E. Coyle, K-N. Lin), Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 179 (1999) 31-52.

"Single Resolution Compression of Arbitrary Triangular Meshes with Properties", (with V. Pascucci, G. Zhuang) Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, vol 14: 167-186, 2000.

"Compression-Based 3D Texture Mapping for Real-Time Rendering", (with I. Ihm, S. Park), Graphical Models, Vol. 62, No. 6, pp. 391-410, 2000.

"Three-Dimensional Imaging of the Experimental Spinal Cord Injury", (with B. S. Duerstock V. Pascucci, D. Schikore. K.-N. Lin, R.B. Borgens), Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, (2000).

"Regular Algebraic Curve Segments (I) -Denitions and Characteristics", (with G. Xu, W. Xue) Computer Aided Geometric Design, 17:6(2000), 485-501.

"Regular Algebraic Curve Segments (II) - Interpolation and Approximation", (with G. Xu, C. Chu), Computer Aided Geometric Design, CAGD 17:6(2000) 503-519.

"Parameterization in Finite Precision", (with A. Royappa) Algorithmica, Vol. 27, pp. 100-114, 2000
"A Programming Approach for Complex Animations", (with C. Baldazzi, S. Cutchin, A. Paoluzzi, V. Pascucci, M. Vincentino), Computer Aided Design, 2000.

"Regular Algebraic Curve Segments (III) - Applications in Interactive Design and Data Fitting", (with G. Xu), Computer Aided Geometric Design, CAGD 18:3 (2001).

"Hierarchical Multiresolution Reconstruction of Shell Surfaces", (with G. Xu, R. Holt, A. Netravali), Computer Aided Geometric Design 19, (2002), 89 - 112.

"Smooth Shell Construction with Mixed Prism Fat Surfaces", (with G. Xu), Geometric Modeling, Springer Verlag, Computing Supplementum 14, 2001, 19–36.

"A Smooth Subdivision Scheme for Hexahedral Meshes", (with J Warren, G Xu), To appear in The Journal of Visual Computer, 2001.

"C1 Modeling with Hybrid Multiple-sided A-patches", (with G. Xu, S. Evans), To appear in the special issue on Surface and Volume Reconstructions in the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science.

"C1 Modeling with A-patches from Rational Trivariate Functions", (with G. Xu, H. Huang), Computer Aided Geometric Design, 18:3(2001), 221-243.

"Dynamic Maintenance and Visualization of Molecular Surfaces", (with V. Pascucci, R. Holt, A. Netravali), Fourth issue in the special series of Discrete Applied Mathematics on Computational Molecular Biology.

"3D RGB Image Compression for Interactive Applications", (with I. Ihm, S. Park), ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol.20, No.1, pages 10-38, 2001.

“NURBS approximation of A-splines and A-patches”, (with G. Xu, R.Holt, A. Netravali), To appear in International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, 2002.

“Anisotropic Diffusion of Subdivision Surfaces and Functions on Surfaces” (with C. Bajaj, G. Xu), ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2002.

“Acoustics Scattering on Arbitrary Manifold Surfaces”, (with G. Xu, J. Warren), GMP, 2002.

EDITED BOOKS
• Introduction to Implicit Surfaces, (with J. Bloomenthal, J. Blinn, M-P. Gascuel, A. Rockwood, B. Wyvill, G. Wyvill), Morgan Kaufman Publishers Inc., (1997).

• Data Visualization Techniques, John Wiley and Sons, (1998).

BOOK CHAPTERS
"Modeling Scattered Function Data on Curved Surfaces", (with G. Xu), Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, edited by J. Chen, N. Thalmann, Z. Tang, and D. Thalmann, World Scientic Publishing Co., (1994), 19 – 29.

"Custom Prosthesis Design and Prototyping", (with V. Anupam, D. Schikore) Multimedia Medical Education, edited by Roy Rada and Claude Ghaoui, Intellect Books, Oxford, England, (1995), chapter 3, 39 – 47.

"Sparse Smooth Connection between B_ezier/Bspline Curves", (with G. Xu) Graphics Gems V, edited by A. Paeth, Academic Press, New York, (1995), chapter IV.6, 191-198.

"Interactive Visualization of Multidimensional Data", Computer Graphics and Applications, edited by S. Y. Shin, T. Kunii, World Scientic Publishing, (Invited Paper), (1995), 63 – 77.

"Splines and Geometric Modeling", (with S. Evans) CRC Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, edited by J. Goodman and J. O'Rourke, CRC Series, Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, (1997), 833 – 849.

"The Combinatorics of Real Algebraic Splines over a Simplicial Complex" Real Number Algorithms, edited by J. Renegar, M. Shub, and S. Smale, AMS Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 32, (1996), 49 – 58.

"Implicit Surface Patches", Introduction to Implicit Surfaces, edited by J. Bloomenthal, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, (1997), 98 – 125.

"Modeling Physical fields for Interrogative Data Visualization", (Invited Paper at the 7th IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces) a. The Mathematics of Surfaces VII, edited by T.N.T. Goodman and R. Martin, Oxford University Press, (1997), 241 – 262.

"Visualization Paradigms", Data Visualization Techniques, edited by C. Bajaj, John Wiley and Sons, (1998).
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"Accelerated Isocontouring of Scalar Fields", Data Visualization Techniques, edited by C. Bajaj, John Wiley and Sons, (1998).

“Geometric Modeling, Computing Supplement”, edited by G. Garin, H. Bieri, G,. Brunnett, T. DeRose, Springer Wein, New York, supplement 13, pages 17-26.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS - REFEREED
"Interrogative Visualization of the Visible Human Datasets" (with F. Bernardini, V. Pascucci, D. Schikore), Proc. of the Visible Human Project Conference, NIH/NLIM, (1996), ed. Richard Banvard, Program chairman, Michael J. Ackerman Ph.D., Bethesda, MD.

“Automatic Reconstruction of 3D CAD Models”, with F. Bernardini, J. Chen, D. Schikore), Proc. International Conference on Theory and Practice of Geometric Modeling, Blaubeuren, (1996), Springer-Verlag.

" Boundary and 3D Triangular Meshes from Planar Cross Sections", (with E. Coyle, K. Lin), Proc. of the Fifth International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Lab., Sandia Report SAND96-2301, UC-405, (1996), Pittsburgh, PA, 169 – 178.

"NURBS based B-rep Models for Macromolecules and their Properties", (with H-Y. Lee, R. Merkert, V. Pascucci), Proc. of the 1997 ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling, ACM Press, (1997), Atlanta, Georgia, 217 – 228.

"Contour Trees and Small Seed Sets for Isosurface Traversal", (with M. van Kreveld, R. van Oostrum, V. Pascucci, D. Schikore) Proc. of the 13th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, ACM Press, (1997), Nice, France, 212 – 219.

"The Contour Spectrum", (with V. Pascucci, D. Schikore) Proc. of the Annual IEEE Visualization Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, (1997), Phoenix, Arizona.

“Sampling and Reconstructing Manifolds Using Alpha-Shapes”, (with F. Bernardini) Proc. of the Ninth Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, 193-198, August 1997.

“Triangulation-based 3D Reconstruction Methods”, (with F. Bernardini, J. Chen, and D. Schikore), In 6th Annual Video Review of Computational Geometry, 13th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry. ACM, 1997.

“Web Based Collaboration-Aware Synthetic Environments”, (with S. Cutchin), Proc. of the 1997 GVU/NIST TEAMCAD workshop, Atlanta, GA, 1997, 143 - 150.

"Hypervolume Rendering: A Challenge in Simplicity", (with V. Pascucci, D. Schikore), ACM Siggraph/IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization, VOLVIS'98, October 1998.

"Visualization of Scalar Topology for Structural Enhancement" (with V. Pascucci, D. Schikore), Proc. of the IEEE Visualization Conference, VIS'98, October 1998.

"Dynamic Maintenance and Visualization of Molecular Surfaces" (with V. Pascucci, R. Holt, A. Netravali) Proc. of the Ninth Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, August 1998.

"Parallel Ray Casting of Visible Human on Distributed Memory Architectures" (with I. Ihm, G-b Koo, S. Park) EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCCG Symposium on Visualization May 26-28, 1999 Vienna, Austria. pp. 269- 276.

"Error Bounded Algebraic Spline Curves" (with G. Xu) Computational Geometry June 1999 Miami Beach, FL., p.332-340.

"Web based Collaborative Visualization of Distributed and Parallel Simulation" (with S. Cutchin) Proc of IEEE Parallel Visualization and Graphics Symposium. October 24-29,1999 San Francisco, CA pages 47-54.

"Progressive Compression and Transmission of Arbitrary Triangular Meshes" (with V. Pascucci, G. Zhuang) Proc of IEEE Visualization Conference, October 24-29,1999 San Francisco, CA, pages 307 – 316.

"Parallel Accelerated Isocontouring for Out-Of-Core Visualization" (with V. Pascucci, D. Thompson, X.Y. Zhang) In Proceedings of IEEE Parallel Visualization and Graphics Symposium, October 24-29,1999 San Francisco, CA pages 97 – 104.

"Making 3D Textures Practical" (with I. Ihm, S. Park) In Proceedings of Pacific Graphics, October 5-7, 1999, Seoul, Korea pages 259 – 268.

"Multi-Resolution Dynamic Meshes with Arbitrary Deformations" (with A. Shamir, V. Pascucci) Proc of IEEE Visualization Conference 2000, Salt Lake Cite, Utah, pg 423-430.

"Time Critical Adaptive Refinement and Smoothing" (with V. Pascucci) Proc of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah, pg 33-42, (2000).

"Compression-based ray casting of very large volume data in distributed environments" (with I. Ihm, S. Park, D. Song) HPC-Asia 2000, pages 720-725, Beijing, China, May 2000.

“Web Based Collaborative Visualization of Distributed and Parallel Simulation”, (with S. Cutchin), Proc. of IEEE Parallel Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics, pg. 47-54, October 24-29, 1999 San Francisco, CA.

"Scalable Isosurface Visualization of Massive Datasets on COTS-Cluster" (with X. Zhang, W. Blanke) Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics 2001, San Diego, CA, 2001.

"Anisotropic Diffusion of Noisy Surfaces and Noisy Functions on Surfaces" (with G. Xu) Proc. of Information Visualization 2001—Computer Aided Geometric Design, London, UK, 2001.

"Visualization-Specific Compression of Large Volume Data" (with I. Ihm, S. Park) To appear in Proc. of Pacific Graphics, 2001, Tokyo, Japan, Oct 2001.

“Active Visualization in a Multidisplay Immersive Environment”, (with W. Blanke), Eight Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, (2002), 103-112.

“Parallel and Out-of-Core View-dependent Isocontouring with random Data Distribution”, (X. Zhang and V. Ramachandron), Joint Eurographics – IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, (2002), 9 – 18.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS – MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL REPORTS
“Visualization of Scalar Topology for Structural Enhancement”, (with D. Schikore), Technical Report 96-006, Purdue University, Computer Sciences (1996).

"NLS: Collaborative Virtual Environment to Promote Shared Awareness", (with N. Osumi, M. Shinya, T. Mori, T. Sunaga, S. Cutchin, R. Merkert) Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation, NPIV '96, In conjunction with Fifth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '96), (1996), pg 41 – 45.

“Object Based Constraint Management for Collaborative Systems”, (with Peinan Zhang), Technical Report 96-039, Purdue University, Computer Sciences(1996).

“Automatic Generation of 3D CAD Models”, (with F. Bernardini, J. Chen, D. Schikore), Technical Report 96-015, Purdue University, Computer Sciences(1996).

“Fast Isocontouring for Improved Interactivity”, (with V. Pascucci, D. Schikore), Technical Report 96-024, Purdue University, Computer Sciences(1996).

“Energy Formulations of A-Splines”, (with J. Chen, R. Holt, A. Netravali), Technical Report 96-031, Purdue University, Computer Sciences(1996).

“Comprehensive Analysis of Joints from Patient Clinical Data”, (with F. Bernardini, S. Cutchin, K. Lin, E. Sacks and D. Schikore), Technical Report CSD-97-019, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, 1997.

“Seed Sets and Search Structures for Optimal Isocountour Extraction”, (with V. Pascucci, D. R. Schikore), TICAM report #99-35.

“Progressive IsoContouring”, (with V. Pascucci), TICAM report #99-36.

“Three-Dimensional Imaging of the Experimental Spinal Cord Injury”, (with B. S. Duerstock, V. Pascucci, D. Schikore. K.-N. Lin, R.B. Borgens), TICAM report #99-37.

“Active Contouring of Images with Physical A-Splines”, (with V. Pascucci, R. Holt, A. Netravali), TICAM Report Number 99-03.

“C1 Modeling with A-patches from Rational Trivariate Functions”, (with G. Xu, H. Huang), TICAM Report number 99-04.

“Smooth Reconstruction and Deformation of Free-Form Fat Surfaces”, (with G. Xu), submitted to ACM Tranactions on Graphics TICAM Report number 99-08.

“Multiresolution Molecular Shapes”, (with V. Pascucci, A. Shamir, R. Holt, A. Netravali), TICAM report # 99-42.

"Triangulation Based Object Reconstruction", (with F. Bernardini, J. Chen, D. Schikore) Proc. of the 13th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, (Video review Report), ACM Press, (1997), Nice, France.

“Visualization-Specific Compression of Large Volume Data”, (with I. Ihm, S. Park) TICAM Technical Report 00-17, University of Texas at Austin., Sep. 2000.

“Hierarchical Multiresolution Reconstruction of Shell Surfaces”, (with G. Xu, R. Holt, A Netravali), TICAM Technical Report 00-06, University of Texas at Austin., March 2000.

“The Metabuffer: A Scalable Multiresolution Multidisplay 3-D Graphics System Using Commodity Rendering Engines”, (with W. Blanke, D. Fussell, X, Zhang), Technical Report, University of Texas at Austin. (2000).

“A Cluster Based Emulator for Multidisplay, Multiresolution Parallel Image Compositing”, (with W. Blanke, X. Zhang, D. Fussell), CS & TICAM Technical Report, University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

“Hardware Accelerated Multipipe Parallel Rendering of Large Data Stream”, (with Sanghun Park, Sangmin Park),CS & TICAM Technical Report, University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

“Effective Visualization of Very Large Oceanography Time-varying Volume Dataset”, (with Sanghun Park, I. Ihm), CS & TICAM Technical Report, University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

“Volumetric Video Compression for Real-Time Playback”, (with Bong-Soo Sohn, Sanghun Park and Vinay K. Siddavanahalli), [TR-02-1], CS & TICAM Technical Report, University of Texas at Austin, 2002.

“Interactive Rendering of Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data” (with S. Park, V. Siddavanahalli), To appear in Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2002, Boston, MA.

“Acoustics Scattering on Arbitrary Manifold Surfaces Using Recursive Subdivision”, (with Guiliang Xu, Joe Warren), [TR-02-2], CS & TICAM Technical Report, University of Texas at Austin, 2002.

“Anisotropic Vector Diffusion in Image Smoothing” (with Z. Yu) To appear in The 9th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’02), Rochester, New York, September 22-25, 2002.