Real-Time Air Pollutants Rendering based on Image Processing

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Author(s)

Demin Wang 1,* Yan Huang 1 Weitao Li 1

1. Department of Computer Science and Technology Shandong University, Jinan City, China

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2011.05.05

Received: 17 Jan. 2011 / Revised: 21 May 2011 / Accepted: 5 Aug. 2011 / Published: 8 Nov. 2011

Index Terms

Information visualization, air pollutant, B-spline interpolation surface, spatial domain enhancement, image rendering

Abstract

This paper presents a new method for realistic real-time rendering of air pollutants based on image processing. The air pollutants’ variable density can create many shapes of mist what can add a realistic environment to virtual scene. In order to achieve a realistic effect, we further enhance thus obtained air pollution data getting from monitor in spatial domain. In the proposed method we map the densities of air pollutants to different gray levels, and visualize them by blending those gray levels with background images. The proposed method can also visualize large-scale air pollution data from different viewpoints in real-time and provide the resulting image with any resolution theoretically, which is very important and favorable for the Internet transmission.

Cite This Paper

Demin Wang, Yan Huang, Weitao Li, "Real-Time Air Pollutants Rendering based on Image Processing", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), vol.3, no.5, pp.32-38, 2011. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2011.05.05

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