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Interactive, Internet Delivery of Visualization via Structured Prerendered Multiresolution Imagery
March/April 2008 (vol. 14 no. 2)
pp. 302-312
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Jerry Chen, Ilmi Yoon, Wes Bethel, "Interactive, Internet Delivery of Visualization via Structured Prerendered Multiresolution Imagery," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 302-312, March/April, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70428,
author = {Jerry Chen and Ilmi Yoon and Wes Bethel},
title = {Interactive, Internet Delivery of Visualization via Structured Prerendered Multiresolution Imagery},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {14},
number = {2},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2008},
pages = {302-312},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2007.70428},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - Interactive, Internet Delivery of Visualization via Structured Prerendered Multiresolution Imagery
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SN - 1077-2626
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EPD - 302-312
A1 - Jerry Chen,
A1 - Ilmi Yoon,
A1 - Wes Bethel,
PY - 2008
KW - Visualization systems and software
KW - Evolving Internet applications
KW - Distributed/network graphics
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We present a novel approach for latency-tolerant delivery of visualization and rendering results where client-side frame rate display performance is independent of source dataset size, image size, visualization technique or rendering complexity. Our approach delivers pre-rendered, multiresolution images to a remote user as they navigate through different viewpoints, visualization or rendering parameters. We employ demand-driven tiled, multiresolution image streaming and prefetching to efficiently utilize available bandwidth while providing the maximum resolution user can perceive from a given viewpoint. Since image data is the only input to our system, our approach is generally applicable to all visualization and graphics rendering applications capable of generating image files in an ordered fashion. In our implementation, a normal web server provides on-demand images to a remote custom client application, which uses client-pull to obtain and cache only those images required to fulfill the interaction needs. The main contributions of this work are: (1) an architecture for latency-tolerant, remote delivery of precomputed imagery suitable for use with any visualization or rendering application capable of producing images in an ordered fashion; (2) a performance study showing the impact of diverse network environments and different tunable system parameters on end-to-end system performance in terms of deliverable frames per second.

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Index Terms:
Visualization systems and software, Evolving Internet applications, Distributed/network graphics
Citation:
Jerry Chen, Ilmi Yoon, Wes Bethel, "Interactive, Internet Delivery of Visualization via Structured Prerendered Multiresolution Imagery," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 302-312, March-April 2008, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2007.70428
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