Will Usher

According to our database, Will Usher authored at least 40 papers between 2015 and 2024.

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2024

Enabling Quick, Accurate Crowdsourced Annotation for Elevation-Aware Flood Extent Mapping.

Landon Dyken, Saugat Adhikari, Pravin Poudel, Steve Petruzza, Da Yan, Will Usher, Sidharth Kumar

CoRR, 2024

2023

Ray Tracing Spherical Harmonics Glyphs.

Christoph Peters, Tark Patel, Will Usher, Chris R. Johnson

Proceedings of the VMV 2023, 2023

Speculative Progressive Raycasting for Memory Constrained Isosurface Visualization of Massive Volumes.

Will Usher, Landon Dyken, Sidharth Kumar

Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization, 2023

Multi-layer Caching and Parallel Streaming for Large Scale Cloud Optimized Point Cloud Data Visualization using WebGPU.

Pravin Poudel, Will Usher, Steve Petruzza

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2023

2022

Accelerating Unstructured Mesh Point Location With RT Cores.

Nate Morrical, Ingo Wald, Will Usher, Valerio Pascucci

IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2022

Point Containment Queries on Ray-Tracing Cores for AMR Flow Visualization.

Stefan Zellmann, Daniel Seifried, Nate Morrical, Ingo Wald, Will Usher, Jamie A. P. Law-Smith, Stefanie Walch-Gassner, André Hinkenjann

Comput. Sci. Eng., 2022

An GPU-accelerated particle tracking method for Eulerian-Lagrangian simulations using hardware ray tracing cores.

Bin Wang, Ingo Wald, Nate Morrical, Will Usher, Lin Mu, Karsten E. Thompson, Richard Hughes

Comput. Phys. Commun., 2022

ANARI: ANAlytic Rendering Interface.

Kevin S. Griffin, Jefferson Amstutz, David E. DeMarle, Johannes Günther, Jakob Progsch, William R. Sherman, John E. Stone, Will Usher, Kees van Kooten

Proceedings of the 24th Eurographics Conference on Visualization, 2022

Design and Evaluation of a GPU Streaming Framework for Visualizing Time-Varying AMR Data.

Stefan Zellmann, Ingo Wald, Alper Sahistan, Matthias Hellmann, Will Usher

Proceedings of the 22nd Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2022

GraphWaGu: GPU Powered Large Scale Graph Layout Computation and Rendering for the Web.

Landon Dyken, Pravin Poudel, Will Usher, Steve Petruzza, Jake Y. Chen, Sidharth Kumar

Proceedings of the 22nd Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2022

2021

Adaptive Multiresolution Techniques for I/O, Data Layout, and Visualization of Massive Simulations.

Will Usher

PhD thesis, 2021

Ray Tracing Structured AMR Data Using ExaBricks.

Ingo Wald, Stefan Zellmann, Will Usher, Nate Morrical, Ulrich Lang, Valerio Pascucci

IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2021

Improving the Usability of Virtual Reality Neuron Tracing with Topological Elements.

Torin McDonald, Will Usher, Nate Morrical, Attila Gyulassy, Steve Petruzza, Frederick Federer, Alessandra Angelucci, Valerio Pascucci

IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2021

A Comparison of Rendering Techniques for 3D Line Sets With Transparency.

Michael Kern, Christoph Neuhauser, Torben Maack, Mengjiao Han, Will Usher, Rüdiger Westermann

IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2021

Efficient and Flexible Hierarchical Data Layouts for a Unified Encoding of Scalar Field Precision and Resolution.

Duong Hoang, Brian Summa, Harsh Bhatia, Peter Lindstrom, Pavol Klacansky, Will Usher, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci

IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2021

Adaptive Spatially Aware I/O for Multiresolution Particle Data Layouts.

Will Usher, Xuan Huang, Steve Petruzza, Sidharth Kumar, Stuart R. Slattery, Samuel Temple Reeve, Feng Wang, Chris R. Johnson, Valerio Pascucci

Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2021

2020

Using Hardware Ray Transforms to Accelerate Ray/Primitive Intersections for Long, Thin Primitive Types.

Ingo Wald, Nate Morrical, Stefan Zellmann, Lei Ma, Will Usher, Tiejun Huang, Valerio Pascucci

Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech., 2020

A terminology for in situ visualization and analysis systems.

Hank Childs, Sean Ahern, James P. Ahrens, Andrew C. Bauer, Janine Bennett, E. Wes Bethel, Peer-Timo Bremer, Eric Brugger, Joseph Cottam, Matthieu Dorier, Soumya Dutta, Jean M. Favre, Thomas Fogal, Steffen Frey, Christoph Garth, Berk Geveci, William F. Godoy, Charles D. Hansen, Cyrus Harrison, Bernd Hentschel, Joseph A. Insley, Christopher R. Johnson, Scott Klasky, Aaron Knoll, James Kress, Matthew Larsen, Jay F. Lofstead, Kwan-Liu Ma, Preeti Malakar, Jeremy S. Meredith, Kenneth Moreland, Paul A. Navrátil, Patrick O'Leary, Manish Parashar, Valerio Pascucci, John Patchett, Tom Peterka, Steve Petruzza, Norbert Podhorszki, David Pugmire, Michel E. Rasquin, Silvio Rizzi, David H. Rogers, Sudhanshu Sane, Franz Sauer, Robert Sisneros, Han-Wei Shen, Will Usher, Rhonda Vickery, Venkatram Vishwanath, Ingo Wald, Ruonan Wang, Gunther H. Weber, Brad Whitlock, Matthew Wolf, Hongfeng Yu, Sean B. Ziegeler

Int. J. High Perform. Comput. Appl., 2020

AMM: Adaptive Multilinear Meshes.

Harsh Bhatia, Duong Hoang, Garrett Morrison, Will Usher, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer, Peter Lindstrom

CoRR, 2020

Digesting the Elephant - Experiences with Interactive Production Quality Path Tracing of the Moana Island Scene.

Ingo Wald, Bruce Cherniak, Will Usher, Carson Brownlee, Attila T. Áfra, Johannes Günther, Jefferson Amstutz, Tim Rowley, Valerio Pascucci, Chris R. Johnson, Jim Jeffers

CoRR, 2020

CPU Ray Tracing of Tree-Based Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data.

Feng Wang, Nathan Marshak, William Usher, Carsten Burstedde, Aaron Knoll, Timo Heister, Chris R. Johnson

Comput. Graph. Forum, 2020

A Virtual Frame Buffer Abstraction for Parallel Rendering of Large Tiled Display Walls.

Mengjiao Han, Ingo Wald, Will Usher, Nate Morrical, Aaron Knoll, Valerio Pascucci, Chris R. Johnson

Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Visualization Conference, 2020

Interactive Visualization of Terascale Data in the Browser: Fact or Fiction?

Will Usher, Valerio Pascucci

Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization, 2020

2019

CPU Isosurface Ray Tracing of Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data.

Feng Wang, Ingo Wald, Qi Wu, Will Usher, Chris R. Johnson

IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2019

A Comparison of Rendering Techniques for Large 3D Line Sets with Transparency.

Michael Kern, Christoph Neuhauser, Torben Maack, Mengjiao Han, William Usher, Rüdiger Westermann

CoRR, 2019

Scalable Ray Tracing Using the Distributed FrameBuffer.

Will Usher, Ingo Wald, Jefferson Amstutz, Johannes Günther, Carson Brownlee, Valerio Pascucci

Comput. Graph. Forum, 2019

Ray Tracing Generalized Tube Primitives: Method and Applications.

Mengjiao Han, Ingo Wald, Will Usher, Qi Wu, Feng Wang, Valerio Pascucci, Charles D. Hansen, Christopher R. Johnson

Comput. Graph. Forum, 2019

Efficient Space Skipping and Adaptive Sampling of Unstructured Volumes Using Hardware Accelerated Ray Tracing.

Nathan Morrical, William Usher, Ingo Wald, Valerio Pascucci

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Visualization Conference, 2019

Spatially-aware Parallel I/O for Particle Data.

Sidharth Kumar, Steve Petruzza, Will Usher, Valerio Pascucci

Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2019

RTX Beyond Ray Tracing: Exploring the Use of Hardware Ray Tracing Cores for Tet-Mesh Point Location.

Ingo Wald, Will Usher, Nathan Morrical, Laura Lediaev, Valerio Pascucci

Proceedings of the High-Performance Graphics 2019, 2019

2018

A Virtual Reality Visualization Tool for Neuron Tracing.

Will Usher, Pavol Klacansky, Frederick Federer, Peer-Timo Bremer, Aaron Knoll, Jeff Yarch, Alessandra Angelucci, Valerio Pascucci

IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2018

Topological Data Analysis Made Easy with the Topology ToolKit.

Guillaume Favelier, Charles Gueunet, Attila Gyulassy, Julien Kitware, Joshua A. Levine, Jonas Lukasczyk, Daisuke Sakurai, Maxime Soler, Julien Tierny, Will Usher, Qi Wu

CoRR, 2018

Scalable Data Management of the Uintah Simulation Framework for Next-Generation Engineering Problems with Radiation.

Sidharth Kumar, Alan Humphrey, Will Usher, Steve Petruzza, Brad Peterson, John A. Schmidt, Derek Harris, Ben Isaac, Jeremy Thornock, Todd Harman, Valerio Pascucci, Martin Berzins

Proceedings of the Supercomputing Frontiers - 4th Asian Conference, 2018

libIS: a lightweight library for flexible in transit visualization.

Will Usher, Silvio Rizzi, Ingo Wald, Jefferson Amstutz, Joseph A. Insley, Venkatram Vishwanath, Nicola J. Ferrier, Michael E. Papka, Valerio Pascucci

Proceedings of the Workshop on In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization, 2018

VisIt-OSPRay: Toward an Exascale Volume Visualization System.

Qi Wu, Will Usher, Steve Petruzza, Sidharth Kumar, Feng Wang, Ingo Wald, Valerio Pascucci, Charles D. Hansen

Proceedings of the 18th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2018

2017

CPU volume rendering of adaptive mesh refinement data.

Ingo Wald, Carson Brownlee, Will Usher, Aaron Knoll

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH ASIA 2017, Bangkok, Thailand, November 27 - 30, 2017, 2017

Progressive CPU Volume Rendering with Sample Accumulation.

Will Usher, Jefferson Amstutz, Carson Brownlee, Aaron Knoll, Ingo Wald

Proceedings of the 17th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2017

2016

In Situ Exploration of Particle Simulations with CPU Ray Tracing.

Will Usher, Ingo Wald, Aaron Knoll, Michael E. Papka, Valerio Pascucci

Supercomput. Front. Innov., 2016

VTK-m: Accelerating the Visualization Toolkit for Massively Threaded Architectures.

Kenneth Moreland, Christopher M. Sewell, William Usher, Li-Ta Lo, Jeremy S. Meredith, David Pugmire, James Kress, Hendrik A. Schroots, Kwan-Liu Ma, Hank Childs, Matthew Larsen, Chun-Ming Chen, Robert Maynard, Berk Geveci

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2016

2015

CPU ray tracing large particle data with balanced P-k-d trees.

Ingo Wald, Aaron Knoll, Gregory P. Johnson, Will Usher, Valerio Pascucci, Michael E. Papka

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference, 2015