Title
Critical Region Analysis Of Scalar Fields In Arbitrary Dimensions
Abstract
The exploration of multidimensional scalar fields is commonly based on the knowledge of the topology of their isosurfaces. The latter is established through the analysis of critical regions of the studied fields. A new method, based on homology theory, for the detection and classification of critical regions in multidimensional scalar fields is proposed in this paper. The use of computational homology provides an efficient and successful algorithm that works in all dimensions and allows to generalize visual classification techniques based solely on the notion of connectedness which appears insufficient in higher dimensions. We present the algorithm, discuss details of its implementation, and illustrate it by experimentations in two, three, and four dimensional spaces.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1117/12.840333
VISUALIZATION AND DATA ANALYSIS 2010
Keywords
Field
DocType
Height fields, critical regions, isosurfaces, homology, Morse index, Conley index
Computer vision,Social connectedness,Algebra,Visualization,Scalar (physics),Critical regions,Artificial intelligence,Region analysis,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7530
0277-786X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Madjid Allili1468.64
Marc Ethier2384.52
Tomasz Kaczynski3415.36