Journal Publications

X. Zhang, C. Bajaj
Scalable Isosurface Visualization of Massive Datasets on Commodity off-the-shelf Clusters
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2008.07.006, http://tinyurl.com/PMC2743442, PMCID: PMC2743442

S. Park, C. Bajaj
Feature Selection of 3D Volume Data through Multi-Dimensional Transfer Functions
Pattern Recognition Letters, 28, 3, pp. 367-374, 2007, doi: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.04.008, http://tinyurl.com/PMC2743423, PMCID: PMC2743423 (pdf) (abstract)

M. Baker, Z. Yu, W. Chiu, C. Bajaj
Automated Segmentation of Molecular Subunits in Electron Cryomicroscopy Density Maps
Journal of Structural Biology, 2006, Dec;156(3):432-41, doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2006.05.013, PMID: 16908194, http://tinyurl.com/PMID16908194, PMC Journal in Process (pdf)

C. Bajaj, A. Paoluzzi, G. Scorzelli
Progressive Conversion from B-rep to BSP for Streaming Geometric Modeling
Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 3, 5, 577-586, 2006. (pdf) (abstract)

B. Sohn, C. Bajaj
Time-Varying Contour Topology
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 12, 1, 14-25, 2006, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.16, http://tinyurl.com/PMC2703823, PMCID: PMC2703823. (pdf) (abstract)

C. Bajaj, J. Castrillon-Candas, V. Siddavanahalli, Z. Xu
Compressed Representations of Macromolecular Structures and Properties
Structure, Volume 13, Issue 3, March 2005, Pages 463-471, doi:10.1016/j.str.2005.02.004 , http://tinyurl.com/PMID15766547, PMID15766547, PMC Journal in Process (pdf) (abstract)

B. Sohn, C. Bajaj, V. Siddavanahalli
Volumetric Video Compression and Interactive Playback
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on "Model-based and Image-based 3D Scene Representation for Interactive Visualization", 96(3), Pages 435-452, 2004. (pdf) (abstract)

B. Duerstock, C. Bajaj, R. Borgens
A Comparative Study of the Quantitative Accuracy of Three-Dimensional Reconstructions of Spinal Cord from Serial Histological Sections
Journal of Microscopy, 210:2, (2003), 138-148, http://tinyurl.com/PMID12753096, PMID12753096, PMC Journal In Process (pdf)

W. Blanke, C. Bajaj
Active Visualization in a Multidisplay Immersive Environment
Computers & Graphics, Volume 27, Number 5, October 2003, 681-691. (pdf)

W. Jiang, M. Baker, Q. Wu, C. Bajaj, W. Chiu
Applications of Bilateral Denoising Filter in Biological Electron Microscopy
Journal of Structural Biology, Volume 144, Issues 1-2, October 2003, Pages 114-122, doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2003.09.028, http://tinyurl.com/PMID14643214, PMID14643214, PMC Journal In Process (pdf)

C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, A. Shamir, R. Holt, A. Netravali
Dynamic Maintenance and Visualization of Molecular Surfaces
Discrete Applied Mathematics 127 (2003). Pages 23-51. (pdf) (ps) (abstract)

C. Bajaj, Z. Yu, M. Auer
Volumetric Feature Extraction and Visualization of Tomographic Molecular Imaging
Journal of Structural Biology, Volume 144, Issues 1-2, Oct. 2003, Pages 132-143, doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2003.09.037, http://tinyurl.com/PMID14643216, PMID14643216, PMC Journal In Process (pdf)

C. Bajaj, G. Xu
Anisotropic Diffusion of Noisy Surfaces and Noisy Functions on Surfaces
Proc. of Information Visualization 2001, London, UK, 2001. (pdf)

H. Pfister, B. Lorenson, C. Bajaj, G. Kindlmann, W. Schroeder, L. Avila, K. Raghu, R. Machiraju, J. Lee
The Transfer Function Bake-off
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 21: Issue 3. May/June 2001. Pages 16-22. (pdf)

C. Bajaj, D. Schikore
Topology Preserving Data Simplification with Error Bounds
Journal on Computers and Graphics, vol. 22.1, pp. 3-12, 1998. (pdf)

C. Bajaj, G. Xu
Modeling and Visualization of C1 and C2 Scattered Function Data on Curved Surfaces
Proc. of 2nd Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, PAC94, Beijing China, 19-29. Full version for Publication in Computer Aided Geometric Design, (1997). (pdf) (ps)

V. Anupam, C. Bajaj, D. Schikore, M. Schikore
Distributed and Collaborative Visualization
IEEE Computer, 27, 7, (July, 1994), 37-43. (pdf) (ps)

V. Anupam, C. Bajaj, F. Bernardini, S. Cutchin, J. Chen, D. Schikore, G. Xu, P. Zhang, W. Zhang
Scientific Problem Solving in a Distributed and Collaborative Multimedia Environment
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 36, 433-442, North Holland, (1994). (Special Issue on Problem Solving Environments for Computational Science and Engineering, edited by E. Houstis). (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, V. Anupam
SHASTRA - An Architecture for Development of Collaborative Applications
International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 3, 2, (1994), 155-172.

V. Anupam, C. Bajaj
Shastra: Multimedia Collaborative Design Environment
IEEE Multimedia, 1, 2, (1994), 39-49. (pdf)

V. Anupam, C. Bajaj
SHASTRA - An Architecture for Development of Collaborative Applications
Proceedings: Second IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 155-166, (1993), Morgantown. (pdf)

Conference Presentations & Publications

O. Sharma, Q. Zhang, F. Anton, C. Bajaj
Multi-Domain, Higher Order Level Set Scheme for 3D Image Segmentation on the GPU
Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010, NIHMSID# 192191, PMC Journal in Process (pdf)

D. Ress, S. Dhandapani, S. Katyal, and C. Greene, C. Bajaj
Surface-Based Imaging Methods for High-Resolution Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Proceedings of Second Intl. Symposium, CompIMAGE 2010: Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images, ed. by R. Barneva, V. Brimkov, H. Hauptman, R. Jorge, J. Tavares. LNCS 6026, Springer Verlag, 2010, p 130-140, NIHMSID# 187599. (pdf)

C. Bajaj, R. Chowdhury, M. Rasheed
A Dynamic Data Structure for Flexible Molecular Maintenance and Informatics
Proceedings of the 2009 SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, San Francisco, CA, 2009, NIHMSID193756, PMC Journal in Process (pdf)

C. Bajaj, A. Gillette, Q. Zhang
Stable Mesh Decimation
Proceedings of the 2009 SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, San Francisco, CA, 2009. (pdf)

C.Bajaj, S. Goswami
Multi-Component Heart Reconstruction from Volumetric Imaging
Proceedings of the ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, Stony Brook, NY, 2008, pp. 193-202. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1364901.1364928, NIHMSID 193748, PMC Journal in Process (pdf)

X. Zhang, C. Bajaj
Extraction, Visualization and Quantification of Protein Pockets
Proc. of the 6th Annual International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics, CSB2007, vol 6, pp. 275 – 286, http://tinyurl.com/PMID17951831PMID, : 17951831

S. Park, C. Bajaj, G. Gladish
Artery-Vein Separation of Human Vasculature from 3D Thoracic CT Angio Scans
Proceedings of CompIMAGE 2006, Coimbra, Portugal. October 20-21, 2006, NIHMSID194051, PMC Journal in Process (pdf)

B. Kang, I. Ihm, C. Bajaj
Extending the Photon Mapping Method for Realistic Rendering of Hot Gaseous Fluids
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CASA 2005), 16, 3, 353-363. (pdf) (abstract)

Y. Shin, C. Bajaj
Auralization I: Vortex Sound Synthesis
Proceedings of Symposium on Visualization, Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG, VisSym 2004, Symposium on Visualization, pp. 193-200, Konstanz, Germany, May 19-21, 2004. Eurographics Association 2004, ISBN 3-905673-07-X. (pdf) (ps) (abstract)

S. Park, C. Bajaj
Multi-Dimensional Transfer Function Design for Scientific Visualization
Proceedings of the Fourth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics & Image Processing, ICVGIP 2004: 290-295.

C. Bajaj, P. Djeu, V. Siddavanahalli, A. Thane
TexMol: Interactive Visual Exploration of Large Flexible Multi-component Molecular Complexes
Proc. of the Annual IEEE Visualization Conference, October 2004, Austin, Texas, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 243-250. (pdf)

C. Bajaj, S. Khandelwal, J Moore, V. Siddavanahalli
Interactive Poster: Interactive Symbolic Visualization of Semi-automatic Theorem Proving
IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003. Seattle, WA. (pdf)

C. Bajaj, G. Xu, J. Warren
Acoustics Scattering on Arbitrary Manifold Surfaces
Geometric Modeling and Processing, Theory and Application 2002, Japan, Pages 73-82. (pdf) (abstract)

W. Blanke, C. Bajaj
Active Visualization in a Multidisplay Immersive Environment
Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments 2002, Pages 103-111. (pdf)

S. Park, C. Bajaj, V. Siddavanahalli
Case Study: Interactive Rendering of Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization, Pages 521-524, 2002, Boston, MA. (pdf)

B. Sohn, C. Bajaj, V. Siddavanahalli
Feature Based Volumetric Video Compression for Interactive Playback
Proceedings of IEEE/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics, Pages 89-96, 2002, Boston, MA, http://tinyurl.com/PMC2805201, PMCID: PMC2805201 (pdf)

X. Zhang, C. Bajaj, V. Ramachandran
Parallel and Out-of-core View-dependent Isocontour Visualization Using Random Data Distribution
Joint Eurographics-IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization 2002, Pages 9-18. (pdf)

X. Zhang, C. Bajaj, W. Blanke
Scalable Isosurface Visualization of Massive Datasets on COTS-Cluster
Proc. of IEEE 2001 Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics, pp. 51-58, San Diego, CA, 2001. (pdf)

C. Bajaj, I. Ihm, S. Park
Visualization-Specific Compression of Large Volume Data
Proc. of Pacific Graphics, pp. 212-222, 2001, Tokyo, Japan, Oct 2001. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, I. Ihm, S. Park, D. Song
Compression-Based Ray Casting of Very Large Volume Data in Distributed Environments
HPC-Asia 2000, Pages 720-725, Beijing, China, May 2000. (pdf) (ps)

A. Shamir, V. Pascucci, C. Bajaj
Multi-Resolution Dynamic Meshes with Arbitrary Deformations
Proc of IEEE Visualization Conference 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah, pp. 423-430. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci
Time Critical Isosurface Refinement and Smoothing
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Volume Visualization and Graphics Symposium 2000, Salt lake City, Utah, pp. 33- 42. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, D.Thompson, X. Zhang
Parallel Accelerated Isocontouring for Out-of-Core Visualization
In Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics, October 24-29, 1999, San Francisco, CA, pp. 97-104. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, I. Ihm, G Koo, S. Park
Parallel Ray Casting of Visible Human on Distributed Memory Architectures
In Proceedings of Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, May 26-28, 1999, Vienna, Austria. pp. 269-276. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, S. Cutchin
Web based Collaborative Visualization of Distributed and Parallel Simulation
In Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics, October 24-29, 1999, San Francisco, CA, pp. 47-54. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, R. Holt, A. Netravali
Dynamic Maintenance and Visualization of Molecular Surfaces
Proceedings of the Tenth Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, August 1998. (ps)

C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, G. Ribbiolo, D. Schikore
Hypervolume Visualization: A Challenge in Simplicity
Proceeding of the IEEE/ACM 1998 Symposium on Volume Visualization pages 95-102 October 1998, Research Triangle Park, NC. (pdf) (ps) (abstract)

C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, D. Schikore
Visualization of Scalar Topology for Structural Enhancement
Proceeding of the IEEE Visualization, pages 51-58, October 1998, Research Triangle Park, NC. (pdf) (ps)

M. van Kreveld, R. van Oostrum, C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, D. Schikore
Contour Trees and Small Seed Sets for Isosurface Traversal
In Proceedings Thirteenth ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (Theoretical Track), (Nice, France, June 4-6, (1997), ACM Press, pp. 212-219. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, D.Schikore
The Contour Spectrum
Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Visualization Conference,167-173, October 1997 Phoeniz, Arizona. (pdf)

C. Bajaj, S. Cutchin
Web Based Collaboration-Aware Synthetic Environments
Proceedings of the 1997 GVU/NIST TEAMCAD workshop, Atlanta, GA, 1997, 143 - 150.

C. Bajaj
Computational Geometry for Interrogative Visualization
Proceedings of the 8th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG'96). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Pages 99-100. (pdf)

C. Bajaj, D. Schikore
Error-Bounded Reduction of Triangle Meshes with Multivariate Data
Proceedings: Visual Data Exploration and Analysis III, SPIE vol 2656, (1996), 34-45. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, D. Schikore
Fast Isocontouring for Improved Interactivity
Proceedings: ACM Siggraph/IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization, ACM Press, (1996), San Francisco, CA. Pages: 39-46 (text) 99 (color plate). (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, F. Bernardini, V. Pascucci, D. Schikore
Interrogative Visualization of the Visible Human Datasets
The Visible Human Project Conference, 1996. (ps)

C. Bajaj, N. Osumi, M. Shinya, T. Mori, T. Sunaga, D. Cutchin, R. Merkert
NLS: Collaborative Virtual Environment to Promote Shared Awareness
Proceedings: Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation, NPIV'96, In conjunction with Fifth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'96), (1996), pp. 41-45.

C. Bajaj, P. Zhang, A. Chaturvedi
Brokered Collaborative Infrastructure for CSCW
Proceedings: Fourth IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, IEEE Computer Society Press, (1995), 207-213. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, F. Bernardini, J. Chen, G. Xu
C1 and C2 Reconstruction of Surfaces and Scalar Fields
Fourth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Nashville, TN, (Nov. 1995).

C. Bajaj, S. Cutchin
Collaborative Multimedia in SHASTRA
3rd International Conference on Multimedia, 1995. San Francisco, CA. Pages 365-366. (pdf)

C. Bajaj, F. Bernardini
Distributed and Collaborative Synthetic Environments
Human-Computer Interaction and Virtual Environments, number 3320, NASA Conference Publication, Hampton, Virginia, April 1995. NASA. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, D. Schikore
Custom Prosthesis Design, Visualization, and Prototyping
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 2359. Visualization in Biomedical Computing 1994, Richard A. Robb, Editor, September 1994, pp. 504-510. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj
Distributed Medical Modeling, Design Prototyping and Collaborative Visualization
Proceedings: Applications of Computer Vision in Medical Image Processing, AAAI 1994 Spring Symposium, AIM-94, Stanford, CA, (1994).

C. Bajaj
Distributed Modeling and Visualization of Timed Clinical Data
Proceedings: The Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AAAI 1994 Spring Symposium, AIM-94, Stanford, CA, (1994).

C. Bajaj, D. Schikore, G. Xu
Distributed Volume Modeling and Collaborative Visualization
Proceedings: Fifth Eurographics Workshop on Visualization in Scientific Computing, Rostock, Germany, (1994). (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj
Reconstructing and Visualizing Scalar Fields in Three Dimensions
Proceedings: The 14th IMACS World Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, ed. by W. Ames, vol. 3, 1994, 1092-1095.

C. Bajaj, K. Lin
Scalar Field Modeling and Visualization on the Intel Delta
Proceedings: Intel Supercomputing User's Group, ISUG '94, June, (1994), San Diego, CA. Technical Report 94-039, Purdue University, Computer Sciences (6/94). (pdf) (ps)

V. Anupam, C. Bajaj
Collaborative Multimedia in Scientific Design
Proceedings: First ACM Multimedia Conference, ACM MULTIMEDIA 93, Anaheim, California, ACM Press, (1993), 447-456. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj
Distributed and Collaborative Modeling and Visualization
Proceedings: The IEEE Visualization '93 Workshop on Intelligent Visualization Systems, San Jose, Ca, Chapter 12, (1993).

C. Bajaj, D. Schikore
Distributed Design of Hip Prosthesis using BHAUTIK
Proceedings: The 1993 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, (1993), Indianapolis, Indiana, ACM Press, 36-39. (pdf)

C. Bajaj
Multi-dimensional Hermite Interpolation and Approximation for Modeling and Visualization
Proceedings: The IFIP TC5/WG5.2/WG5.10 CSI International Conference on Computer Graphics, ICCG93, (1993), IFIP Transactions B-9, North Holland, 335-348. Graphics, Design and Visualization, ed. by S. Mudur, S. Pattanaik. (pdf) (ps)

V. Anupam, C. Bajaj, S. Cutchin, S. Evans, I. Ihm, J. Chen, A. Royappa, D. Schikore, G. Xu
Scientific Problem Solving in a Distributed and Collaborative Geometric Environment
3rd International Conference on Expert Systems for Numerical Computing, May 17-19, 1993, West Lafayette, IN.

C. Bajaj, S. Cutchin
The GATI Client-Server Animation Toolkit
Proceedings: Computer Graphics International, CGI93, Communicating with Virtual Worlds, edited by N. Thalmann and D. Thalmann, Springer Verlag, (1993), 413-423.

Book Chapters

C. Bajaj, A. Gillette, S. Goswami, B. Kwon, and J. Rivera
Complementary Space for Enhanced Uncertainty and Dynamics Visualization
Topological Data Analysis and Visualization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, ed. by Pascucci, Tricoche, Hagen, Tierny, Springer-Verlag, in publication, 2009, NIHMSID194093, PMC Journal in Process (pdf)

C. Bajaj, A. Gillette, S. Goswami
Topology Based Selection and Curation of Level Sets
Topology-in-Visualization, ed. by A. Wiebel, H. Hege, K. Polthier, G. Scheuermann, 2009, pages 45-58, NIHMS155079, PMC Journal (pdf)

M. van Kreveld, R. van Oostrum, C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, D. Schikore
Contour Trees and Small Seed Sets for Isosurface Generation
Topological Data Structures for Surfaces
Chap5, pp. 71-86, 2004. ed. by S. Rana, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2004.

S. Park, C. Bajaj, I. Ihm
Visualization of Very Large Oceanography Time-Varying Volume Datasets
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), ed. by M. Bubak et. al., ICCS 2004, Volume 3037, 2004, Pages 419-426, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg. (pdf)

C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, D. Schikore
Accelerated IsoContouring of Scalar Fields
Data Visualization Techniques, edited by C. Bajaj, John Wiley and Sons (1998). (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj
Interrogative Visualization
Geometric Modeling, Computing Supplement, 13, Edited by G. Farin, H.Bieri, G. Brunnett, T. DeRose, Springer Verlag, (1998), 17-26.

C. Bajaj
Visualization Paradigms
Data Visualization Techniques, edited by C. Bajaj, John Wiley and Sons (1998). (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj
Modeling Physical Fields for Interrogative Data Visualization
7th IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, The Mathematics of Surfaces VII, edited by T.N.T. Goodman and R. Martin, Oxford University Press, (1997).

C. Bajaj, V. Anupam, D. Schikore
Custom Prosthesis Design and Prototyping Using Multimedia
Multimedia Medical Education, edited by Roy Rada and Claude Ghaoui, Intellect Books, Oxford, England, (1995), chapter 3, 39-47, ISBN 1-871516-63-3.

C. Bajaj
Interactive Visualization of Multidimensional Data
Computer Graphics and Applications, edited by S. Y. Shin, T. Kunii, World Scientific Publishing, (Invited Paper), (1995), 63-77. (pdf) (ps)

C. Bajaj, G. Xu
Modeling Scattered Function Data on Curved Surfaces
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, edited by J. Chen, N. Thalmann, Z. Tang, and D. Thalmann, World Scientific Publishing Co., (1994), 19-29. (pdf) (ps)