Remote Visualization by Browsing Image Based Databases with Logistical Networking

The need to provide remote visualization of large datasets with adequate levels of quality and interactivity has become a major impediment to distributed collaboration in Computational Science. Although Image Based Rendering (IBR) techniques based on plenoptic functions have some important advantages over other approaches to this problem, they suffer from an inability to deal with issues of network latency and server load, due to the large size of the IBR databases they generate. Consequently, IBR techniques have been left largely unexplored for this purpose. In this paper we describe strategies for addressing these obstacles using Logistical Networking (LoN), which is a new and highly scalable approach to deploying storage as a shared communication resource. Leveraging LoN technology and infrastructure, we developed a remote visualization system based on concepts of light field rendering, an IBR method using a 4-D plenoptic function. Our system extends existing work on light fields b...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SC
• Authors: Jin Ding, Jian Huang, Micah Beck, Shaotao Liu, Terry Moore, Stephen Soltesz
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Light Field, Plenoptic Function, Remote Visualization, SC 2003