@misc{ReininghausKastenWeinkaufetal., author = {Reininghaus, Jan and Kasten, Jens and Weinkauf, Tino and Hotz, Ingrid}, title = {Combinatorial Feature Flow Fields: Tracking Critical Points in Discrete Scalar Fields}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-12151}, number = {11-02}, abstract = {We propose a combinatorial algorithm to track critical points of 2D time-dependent scalar fields. Existing tracking algorithms such as Feature Flow Fields apply numerical schemes utilizing derivatives of the data, which makes them prone to noise and involve a large number of computational parameters. In contrast, our method is robust against noise since it does not require derivatives, interpolation, and numerical integration. Furthermore, we propose an importance measure that combines the spatial persistence of a critical point with its temporal evolution. This leads to a time-aware feature hierarchy, which allows us to discriminate important from spurious features. Our method requires only a single, easy-to-tune computational parameter and is naturally formulated in an out-of-core fashion, which enables the analysis of large data sets. We apply our method to a number of data sets and compare it to the stabilized continuous Feature Flow Field tracking algorithm.}, language = {en} } @misc{GuentherReininghausProhaskaetal.2012, author = {G{\"u}nther, David and Reininghaus, Jan and Prohaska, Steffen and Weinkauf, Tino and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Efficient Computation of a Hierarchy of Discrete 3D Gradient Vector Fields}, series = {Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization II}, journal = {Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization II}, editor = {Peikert, Ronny and Hauser, Helwig and Carr, Hamish}, publisher = {Springer}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-23175-9_2}, pages = {15 -- 29}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{ReininghausKastenWeinkaufetal.2012, author = {Reininghaus, Jan and Kasten, Jens and Weinkauf, Tino and Hotz, Ingrid}, title = {Efficient Computation of Combinatorial Feature Flow Fields}, series = {Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, volume = {18}, journal = {Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, number = {9}, doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2011.269}, pages = {1563 -- 1573}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @misc{ReininghausGuentherHotzetal.2012, author = {Reininghaus, Jan and G{\"u}nther, David and Hotz, Ingrid and Weinkauf, Tino and Seidel, Hans Peter}, title = {Combinatorial Gradient Fields for 2D Images with Empirically Convergent Separatrices}, year = {2012}, language = {en} }