Features

• Open source software for rendering large volumetric data.
• Written in C++ using Qt. The same code compiles on Windows, MacOS X, and Linux/Unix.
• Can use a DataCutter server as a data source.
• Combined volume rendering and isosurfacing.
• Can be used as a client to parallel render servers.
• Supports multi-variable, time varying datasets.
• Provides programmers with an easy to use volume rendering library.
• Saves isosurfaces for viewing in other programs.

Tutorial We have a tutorial to familiarize you with Volume Rover. PDF version is available here.

References, available on CVC Publications

• Z. Yu, C. Bajaj
  A Fast and Adaptive Algorithm for Image Contrast Enhancement
  Procedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’04), Volume 2, Oct. 24-27 2004, Pages 1001-1004, Singapore.
• 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.
• S. Park, C. Bajaj, G. Gladish
  Artery-Vein Separation of Human Vasculature from 3D Thoracic CT Angio Scans
  CompIMAGE. Coimbra, Portugal. October 20-21, 2006.
• M. Baker, Z. Yu, W. Chiu, C. Bajaj
  Automated Segmentation of Molecular Subunits in Electron Cryomicroscopy Density Maps Journal of Structural Biology, 2006. Accepted.
• Z. Yu, C. Bajaj
  Automatic Ultrastructure Segmentation of Reconstructed CryoEM Maps of Icosahedral Viruses
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing: Special Issue on Molecular and Cellular Bioimaging, 2005 Sep;14(9):1324-37.
• Z. Yu, C. Bajaj
  Anisotropic Vector Diffusion in Image Smoothing
  Proceeding of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pp. 828-831, (Published by IEEE CS Press), Rochester, New York, September 22-25, 2002.
• Z. Yu, C. Bajaj
  Normalized Gradient Vector Diffusion and Image Segmentation
  Procedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision (LNCS 2352), vol. 3, pp. 517-530, (Published by Springer Press), Copenhagen, Denmark, May 28-31, 2002.
• Z. Yu, C. Bajaj
  Computational Approaches for Automatic Structural Analysis of Large Bio-molecular Complexes
  Accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2007.
• C. Bajaj, Z. Yu
  Geometric and Signal Processing of Reconstructed 3D Maps of Molecular Complexes
  Handbook of Computational Molecular Biology, Edited by S. Aluru, Chapman & Hal l/CRC Press, Computer and Information Science Series, December 21, 2005, ISBN: 1584884061.
• C. Bajaj, E. Coyle, K. Lin
  Arbitrary Topology Shape Reconstruction from Planar Cross Sections
  Graphical Models and Image Processing, 58:6, (1996), 524-543.
• Wilson, Van Gelder, Wilhelms
  Direct Volume Rendering via 3D Textures
  Technical Report UCSC-CRL-94-19. Univ. of Calif. Santa Cruz. 1994
• Lorensen, Cline
  Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm
  Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
• C. Bajaj, V.Pascucci, and D.Schikore
  The Contour Spectrum
  Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Visualization Conference,167-173, October 1997 Phoeniz, Arizona
• C. Bajaj, M. van Kreveld, R. van Oostrum, V. Pascucci, and D. Schikore
  Contour Trees and Small Seed Sets for Isosurface Generation
  Topological Data Structures for Surfaces, Chap5, pg 71 - 86, 2004 ed. by S. Rana, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2004
• C. Bajaj, Z. Yu, M. Auer
  Volumetric Feature Extraction and Visualization of Tomographic Molecular Imaging
  Journal of Structural Biology, Volume 144, Issues 1-2, October 2003, Pages 132-143.