In virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) applications, especially medical image visualization, it is highly desirable to magnify region of interests. In this work, we propose a novel method for virtual magnifying glass for visualizing volumetric data based on Optimal Mass Transportation. An optimal mass transportation map deforms a volume to itself, transforms the source measure (volumetric element) to the target measure with the minimal transportation cost. Solving the optimal mass transportation problem is equivalent to a convex optimization, and can be converted to computing power Voronoi diagrams in classical computational geometry. The proposed method allows the user to accurately control the target measure, and select multiple regions of interests with irregular shapes. We demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our method with several volume data sets from medical applications.

Forums have been one of the most important internet services since the 21st century. However, Forum users have to receive information in a passive way currently. The topics in forums are ordered by last update time (last reply time), thus the information that a user is interested in may be overwhelmed by a large number of other information. Users always have to scan many pages to find a minority of information they need. In this paper, based on the analysis of users' needs, I have designed a personalized forum topic ranking system. This personalized ranking system first calculates all the factors that will influence the user’s decision-making as to whether or not to view a topic by using his/her browsing history. Then the system predicts the click probability for each topic according to all the influence factors using a learned maximum entropy model. Finally, forum topics can be ranked by the predicted click probability, so as to make users find their favorite information easier. As shown by the experiments, the precision of the personalized ranking system is about 60% to 75%, which improves the traditional method (ordered by last update time) by 50% to 85%. In addition, with the normalization of the indicator functions of the maximum entropy model and the selection of the iterative endpoint, the training time can be lowered to an average of 0.01 seconds for each user. It indicates that such a model is able to meet the requirements of practical applications.

Geometric compression plays a fundamental rolein virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications. Dense meshesare re-sampled and re-tessellatedtoreduce thecomplexity. This process is called remeshing. In this work,we propose a novel remeshing algorithm based on both angle-preservingparameterization, and measurecontrollable parameterization. The conformal parameterization iscarried out by discrete surface Ricci flow method, the measurecontrollable parameterization is obtaind by an optimal mass transportation map. The sampling is performed on the measurecontrollable parameterization domain, the triangulation is computed on the conformal parameterization domain using Delaunay refinement algorithm. This method gives the user full control of sampling distribution, and produces mesheswith curvature measure convergence. The meshing resultcan emphsizethe region of interests, is curvature sensitive. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and efficacy of the proposed method.

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