Yi-jen Chiang

Publication List Details

Period

1992 - 2008

Number

52

Co-Authors

Trees Yi-Jen Chiang (2008)

Yi-jen Chiang, Xiang Lu, Xiang Lu

Isosurface extraction is one of the most powerful techniques in the investigation of volume datasets in scientific visualization. The contour tree is a fundamental data structure for fast isosurface...

Alphabet partitioning techniques for semi-adaptive Huffman coding of large alphabets (2008)

Dan Chen, Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Nasir Memon, ...

Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix coding for each...

Lossless Geometry Compression for Floating-Point Data in Steady-State and Time-Varying Fields over Irregular Grids (2008)

Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Abstract — In this paper we investigate the problem of lossless geometry compression of irregular-grid volume data represented as a tetrahedral mesh. We propose a novel lossless compression...

Lossless Geometry Compression for Steady-State and Time-Varying Irregular Grids † (2008)

Thomas Ertl, Ken Joy, Beatriz Santos (editors, Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, ...

In this paper we investigate the problem of lossless geometry compression of irregular-grid volume data represented as a tetrahedral mesh. We propose a novel lossless compression technique that...

On Minimum-Area Hulls (Extended Abstract) (2008)

Esther M. Arkin, Yi-jen Chiang, Martin Held, Steven S. Skiena, Tae-cheon Yang

Abstract. We study some minimum-area hull problems that generalize the notion of convex hull to star-shaped and monotone hulls. Specifically, we consider the minimum-area star-shaped hull problem:...

Alphabet Partitioning Techniques for (2008)

Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix coding for each...

DOI: 10.1007/s00453-004-1124-z (2008)

Algorithmica Of Of, Yi-jen Chiang

We consider the following maximum scatter traveling salesperson problem (TSP): given an edgeweighted complete graph (S, E), find a Hamiltonian path or cycle such that the length of a shortest edge is...

Dynamic and I/O-Efficient Algorithms for Computational Geometry and Graph Problems: Theoretical and Experimental Results (2007)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Computational Geometry, Graph Problems

As most important applications today are large-scale in nature, high-performance methods are becoming indispensable. Two promising computational paradigms for large-scale applications are dynamic and...

Geometry Compression Of Tetrahedral Meshes Using Optimized (2005)

Prediction Dan Chen, Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

In this paper we propose a novel geometry compression technique for volumetric datasets represented as tetrahedral meshes. We focus on a commonly used technique for predicting vertex geometries via a...

Computational Geometry 34 (2006) 159--181 (2005)

Www Elsevier Com, Boris Aronov, Hervé Brönnimann, Allen Y. Chang, Yi-jen Chiang

The ray shooting problem arises in many different contexts and is a bottleneck of ray tracing in computer graphics. Unfortunately, theoretical solutions to the problem are not very practical, while...

Lossless geometry compression for steady-state and time-varying irregular grids (2005)

Tetrahedral Meshes, Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

In recent years, new challenges for scientific visualization have emerged as the size of data generated from simulations has grown exponentially. The emerging demand for efficiently storing,...

Simple and Optimal Output-Sensitive Construction of Contour Trees Using Monotone Paths (2004)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Tobias Lenz, Xiang Lu, Günter Rote

Contour trees are used when high-dimensional data are preprocessed for e#cient extraction of isocontours for the purpose of visualization. So far, e#cient algorithms for contour trees are based on...

Simple and optimal output-sensitive construction of contour trees using monotone paths (2004)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Tobias Lenz, Xiang Lu, Günter Rote

Contour trees are used when high-dimensional data are preprocessed for efficient extraction of isocontours for the purpose of visualization. So far, efficient algorithms for contour trees are based...

Computational Geometry (2004)

Www Elsevier Com, Boris Aronov, Hervé Brönnimann, Allen Y. Chang, Yi-jen Chiang

Given a scene consisting of objects, ray shooting queries answer with the first object encountered by a given ray, and are used in ray tracing and radiosity for rendering photo-realistic images in...

Out-of-Core Isosurface Extraction of Time-Varying Fields over Irregular Grids (2003)

Yi-Jen Chiang

In this paper, we propose a novel out-of-core isosurface extraction technique for large time-varying fields over irregular grids. We employ our meta-cell technique to explore the spatial coherence of...

Optimal Alphabet Partitioning for Semi-Adaptive Coding of Sources of Unknown Sparse Distributions (2003)

Dan Chen, Yi-Jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable pre x coding for each...

Optimal alphabet partitioning for semi-adaptive coding of sources with unknown sparse distributions (2003)

Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix coding for each...

Progressive Simplification of Tetrahedral Meshes Preserving All Isosurface Topologies (2003)

Yi-jen Chiang, Xiang Lu

In this paper, we propose a novel technique for constructing multiple levels of a tetrahedral volume dataset while preserving the topologies of all isosurfaces embedded in the data. Our...

Optimal alphabet partitioning for semi-adaptive coding of sources with unknown sparse distributions (2003)

Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets of-ten partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix coding for each...

Out-of-core algorithms for scientific visualization and computer graphics (2002)

Cláudio Silva, Yi-jen Chiang, Wagner Corrêa, Jihad El-sana, Peter Lindstrom

Recently, several external memory techniques have been developed for a wide variety of graphics and visualization problems, including surface simplification, volume rendering, isosurface generation,...

Cost prediction for ray shooting (2002)

Boris Aronov, Hervé Brönnimann, Allen Y. Chang, Yi-jen Chiang

The ray shooting problem arises in many different contexts. For example, solving it efficiently would remove a bottleneck when images are ray-traced in computer graphics. Unfortunately, theoretical...

EUROGRAPHICS '2000 / M. Gross and F.R.A. Hopgood (2000)

Guest Editors Volume, Jihad El-sana, Yi-jen Chiang

In this paper, we propose a novel external-memory algorithm to support view-dependent simplification for datasets much larger than main memory. In the preprocessing phase, we use a new spanned...

External Memory Techniques for Isosurface Extraction in Scientific Visualization (1999)

Scienti C Visualization, Yi-jen Chiang, Claudio T. Silva

Isosurface extraction is one of the most effective and powerful techniques for the investigation of volume datasets in scientific visualization. Previous isosurface techniques are all main-memory...

External Memory Techniques for Isosurface Extraction in Scientific Visualization (Abstract) (1999)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Cl'audio T. Silva

Isosurface extraction is one of the most effective and powerful techniques for the investigation of volume datasets in scientific visualization. Previous isosurface techniques are all main-memory...

External Memory Techniques for Isosurface Extraction in Scientific Visualization (1999)

Yi-jen Chiang, Cláudio T. Silva, Cl'audio T. Silva

. Isosurface extraction is one of the most effective and powerful techniques for the investigation of volume datasets in scientific visualization. Previous isosurface techniques are all main-memory...

Isosurface Extraction in Large Scientific Visualization Applications Using the I/O-filter Technique (1998)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Cláudio T. Silva, Cl'audio T. Silva

For large scientific visualization applications, it is often impossible to hold the entire datasets in main memory, even on supercomputers. Previously, we proposed the I/O-filter technique, which is...

Interactive Out-Of-Core Isosurface Extraction (1998)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Claudio T. Silva, William J. Schroeder

In this paper, we present a novel out-of-core technique for the interactive computation of isosurfaces from volume data. Our algorithm minimizes the main memory and disk space requirements on the...

I/O Optimal Isosurface Extraction (1997)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Claudio T. Silva

In this paper we give I/O-optimal techniques for the extraction of isosurfaces from volumetric data, by a novel application of the I/Ooptimal interval tree of Arge and Vitter. The main idea is to...

I/O Optimal Isosurface Extraction (Extended Abstract) (1997)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Cláudio T. Silva

) Yi-Jen Chiang Claudio T. Silva y State University of New York at Stony Brook Abstract In this paper we give I/O-optimal techniques for the extraction of isosurfaces from volumetric data, by a novel...

On the Maximum Scatter TSP (1997)

Esther M. Arkin, Yi-Jen Chiang, Steven S. Skiena, Tae-Cheon Yang

. We study the problem of computing a Hamiltonian tour (cycle) or path on a set of points in order to maximize the minimum edge length in the tour or path. This "maximum scatter" TSP is...

Geometric Algorithms for Conflict Detection/Resolution in Air Traffic Management (1997)

Appeared In, Yi-jen Chiang, James T. Klosowski, Changkil Lee

We consider the problems of conflict detection and resolution in air traffic management (ATM) from the perspective of computational geometry and give algorithms for solving these problems...

Experiments on the Practical I/O Efficiency of Geometric Algorithms: Distribution Sweep vs. Plane Sweep (1997)

Yi-Jen Chiang

We present an extensive experimental study comparing the performance of four algorithms for the following orthogonal segment intersection problem: given a set of horizontal and vertical line segments...

I/O Optimal Isosurface Extraction in Scientific Visualization (1997)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Cláudio T. Silva

) Yi-Jen Chiang y Claudio T. Silva z Isosurface extraction represents one of the most effective and powerful techniques for the investigation of volume datasets in Scientific Visualization. It has...

I/O Optimal Isosurface Extraction (1997)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Cláudio T. Silva

In this paper we give I/O-optimal techniques for the extraction of isosurfaces from volumetric data, by an application of the I/O-optimal interval tree of Arge and Vitter. The main idea is to...

On the Maximum Scatter TSP (Extended Abstract) (1997)

E. M. Arkin, Yi-Jen Chiang, Esther M. Arkin, Steven S. Skiena, Tae-cheon Yang

) Esther M. Arkin y Yi-Jen Chiang z Joseph S. B. Mitchell x Steven S. Skiena -- Tae-Cheon Yang k To appear in Proc. ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (1997) Abstract We study the problem of...

Geometric Algorithms for Conflict Detection/Resolution in Air Traffic Management (1997)

Yi-jen Chiang, James T. Klosowski, Changkil Lee

We consider the problems of conflict detection and resolution in air traffic management (ATM) from the perspective of computational geometry and give algorithms for solving these problems...

Geometric algorithms for conflict detection/resolution in air traffic management (1997)

Yi-jen Chiang, James T. Klosowski, Changkil Lee

We consider the problems of conflict detection and resolution in air traffic management (ATM) from the perspective of computational geometry and give algorithms for solving these problems...

On the Maximum Scatter TSP (1996)

Esther M. Arkin, Yi-Jen Chiang, Steven S. Skiena, Tae-cheon Yang

We study the problem of computing a Hamiltonian tour (cycle) or path on a set of points in order to maximize the minimum edge length in the tour or path. This "maximum scatter" TSP is...

Experiments on the Practical I/O Efficiency of Geometric Algorithms: Distribution Sweep vs. Plane Sweep (1995)

Yi-Jen Chiang

We present an extensive experimental study comparing the performance of four algorithms for the following orthogonal segment intersection problem: given a set of horizontal and vertical line segments...

Dynamic and I/O-Efficient Algorithms for Computational Geometry and . . . (1995)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Computational Geometry, Graph Problems

As most important applications today are large-scale in nature, high-performance methods are becoming indispensable. Two promising computational paradigms for large-scale applications are dynamic and...

External-Memory Graph Algorithms (1995)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Michael T. Goodrich, Edward F. Grove, Roberto Tamassia, Darren Erik Vengroff, ...

We present a collection of new techniques for designing and analyzing efficient external-memory algorithms for graph problems and illustrate how these techniques can be applied to a wide variety of...

External-Memory Graph Algorithms (1995)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Michael T. Goodrich, Edward F. Grove, Roberto Tamassia, Darren Erik Vengroff, ...

We present a collection of new techniques for designing and analyzing efficient external-memory algorithms for graph problems and illustrate how these techniques can be applied to a wide variety of...

Optimal Shortest Path and Minimum-Link Path Queries Between Two Convex Polygons in the Presence of Obstacles (1994)

Yi-jen Chiang, Yi-jen Chiang, Roberto Tamassia, Roberto Tamassia

We present efficient algorithms for shortest-path and minimum-link-path queries between two convex polygons inside a simple polygon P , which acts as an obstacle to be avoided. Let n be the number of...

Optimal Shortest Path and Minimum-Link Path Queries Between Two Convex Polygons Inside A Simple Polygonal Obstacle (1994)

Yi-jen Chiang, Roberto Tamassia

We present efficient algorithms for shortest-path and minimum-link-path queries between two convex polygons inside a simple polygon P , which acts as an obstacle to be avoided. Let n be the number of...

Optimal Shortest Path and Minimum-Link Path Queries in the Presence of Obstacles (Extended Abstract) (1994)

Yi-jen Chiang, Roberto Tamassia

) Yi-Jen Chiang and Roberto Tamassia Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, R. I. 02912--1910 fyjc,rtg@cs.brown.edu Abstract. We present efficient algorithms for shortest-path...

A Unified Approach To Dynamic Point Location, Ray Shooting, And Shortest Paths In Planar Maps (1993)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Franco P. Preparata, Roberto Tamassia

. We describe a new technique for dynamically maintaining the trapezoidal decomposition of a connected planar map M with n vertices, and apply it to the development of a unified dynamic data...

A Unified Approach to Dynamic Point Location, Ray Shooting, and Shortest Paths in Planar Maps (1993)

Yi-Jen Chiang, Franco P. Preparata, Roberto Tamassia

. We describe a new technique for dynamically maintaining the trapezoidal decomposition of a connected planar map M with n vertices, and apply it to the development of a unified dynamic data...

A Unified Approach to Dynamic Point Location, Ray Shooting, and Shortest Paths in Planar Maps (1992)

Yi-jen Chiang, Yi-jen Chiang, Franco P. Preparata, Franco P. Preparata, Roberto Tamassia

We describe a new technique for dynamically maintaining the trapezoidal decomposition of a planar map M with n vertices, and apply it to the development of a unified dynamic data structure that...

Dynamization of the Trapezoid Method for Planar Point Location in Monotone Subdivisions (1992)

Yi-jen Chiang, Yi-jen Chiang, Roberto Tamassia, Roberto Tamassia

We present a fully dynamic data structure for point location in a monotone subdivision, based on the trapezoid method. The operations supported are insertion and deletion of vertices and edges, and...

Dynamic Algorithms in Computational Geometry (1992)

Yi-jen Chiang, Roberto Tamassia

Research on dynamic algorithms for geometric problems has received increasing attention in the last years, and is motivated by many important applications in circuit layout, computer graphics, and...

Dynamization of the Trapezoid Method for Planar Point Location in Monotone Subdivisions (1992)

Yi-jen Chiang, Roberto Tamassia

We present a fully dynamic data structure for point location in a monotone subdivision, based on the trapezoid method. The operations supported are insertion and deletion of vertices and edges, and...