Selected Publication

Visualizing Clusters in Parallel Coordinates for Visual Knowledge Discovery, Yang Xiang, David Fuhry, Ruoming Jin, Ye Zhao, and Kun Huang, The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) , To appear, May 2012

Real-time Visualization of Streaming Text with Force-Based Dynamic System,  Jamal Alsakran, Yang Chen, Dongning Luo, Ye Zhao, Jing Yang, Wenwen Dou, and Shixia Liu, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), 32(1), pages 34-45, 2012, IEEE.

Incorporating Stochastic Turbulence in Particle-Based Fluid Simulation, Zhi Yuan, Ye Zhao, Fan Chen, The Visual Computer, 28(5), 435-444, 2012, Springer. (Web) (PDF)

Pattern-Guided Smoke Animation with Lagrangian Coherent Structure, Zhi Yuan, Fan Chen, Ye Zhao, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, ACM Transaction on Graphics 30(6), pages 136:1--136:8, Hong Kong, Dec, 2011, ACM. (Web) (PDF)

Supporting Effective Common Ground Construction in Asynchronous Collaborative Visual Analytics, Yang Chen, Jamal Alsakran, Scott Barlowe, Jing Yang, and Ye Zhao, IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pages 101, VisWeek, October, 2011, IEEE. (PDF)

Langevin Particle: A Self-Adaptive Lagrangian Primitive For Flow Simulation Enhancement, Fan Chen, Ye Zhao, Zhi Yuan, Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics’11),

30(4), 435-444, Eurographics, 2011. (PDF) (Web)

Stochastic Modeling of Light-weight Floating Objects, Zhi Yuan, Ye Zhao, Fan Chen, The 24th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, To appear, May, 2011 (PDF) (Web)

Extended abstract in ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, March, 2011 (PDF)

STREAMIT: Dynamic visualization and interactive exploration of text streams, Jamal Alsakran, Yang Chen, Ye Zhao, Jing Yang, and Dongning Luo. Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, March, 2011, IEEE. (Web)

Enhancing Fluid Animation with Adaptive, Controllable and Intermittent Turbulence, Ye Zhao, Zhi Yuan, Fan Chen, In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on  Computer  Animation 2010, pages 75-84, Madrid, Spain, July, 2010 (PDF,Web)

Spectral Image Decolorization, Ye Zhao and Zakia Tamimi, In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Vol. 6454, pages 747-756, 2010, Springer (PDF,Web)

Visual simulation of flow. Arie Kaufman and Ye Zhao. In H. Hagen, editor, Scientific Visualization: Advanced Concepts, Volume 1 of Dagstuhl Follow-Ups. Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany, 2010 (PDF).

Tile-based parallel coordinates and its application in financial visualization, Jamal Alsakran, Ye Zhao and Xinlei Zhao, Proceedings of the SPIE conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, SPIE Electronic Imaging 2010, Volume 7530, pages 753003-12 , San Jose, CA, Jan, 2010, SPIE.  (PDF)

Parallel 3D Image Segmentation of Large Data Sets on a GPU Cluster, Aaron Hagan, Ye Zhao, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 960-969, Springer, Dec, 2009. (PDF)

Distance Field Transform with an Adaptive Iteration Method, Fan Chen and Ye Zhao, IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI), pages 111-118, Beijing, China, June, 2009. (PDF)

Visual simulation of thermal fluid dynamics in a pressurized water reactor, Zhe Fan, Yu-Chuan Kuo, Ye Zhao, Feng Qiu, Arie Kaufman and William Arcieri, The Visual Computer, 25(11), November 2009, pp. 985-996 , Springer, 2009  (PDF).

Visual Analysis of Mutual Fund Performance, Jamal Alsakran, Ye Zhao, Xinlei Zhao, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV09), pages 252-259, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2009, IEEE Computer Society (PDF)

GPU-Accelerated Surface Denoising and Morphing with Lattice Boltzmann Scheme, Ye Zhao, IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI), pages 19-28, June, 2008. (PDF)

Lattice Boltzmann based PDE solver on the GPU. Ye Zhao, The Visual Computer, volume 24, number 5, pages 323-333, Springer, May, 2008 (PDF).

Flow Simulation with Locally-Refined LBM. Ye Zhao, Feng Qiu, Zhe Fan and Arie Kaufman, In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, pages 181-188, 2007 (PDF)

Visual Simulation of Heat Shimmering and Mirage. Ye Zhao, Yiping Han, Zhe Fan, Feng Qiu, Yuchuan Kuo, Arie Kaufman and Klaus Mueller, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol 13, No 1, pages 179-189, 2007 (PDF)

Melting and Flowing in Multiphase Environment. Ye Zhao, Lujing Wang, Feng Qiu, Arie Kaufman and Klaus Mueller, Computers & Graphics, Vol 30, No 4,  pages 519-528, 2006 (PDF)

The Magic Volume Lens: An Interactive Focus+Context Technique for Volume Rendering. Lujing Wang, Ye Zhao, Klaus Mueller and Arie Kaufman, In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005,  pages 367-374 (PDF)

Adapted Unstrutured LBM for Flow Simulation on Curved Surfaces. Zhe Fan, Ye Zhao, Arie Kaufman and Ying He, In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on  Computer  Animation 2005,  pages 245-254.(PDF)

Front Spreading on 3D Surfaces. Ye Zhao and Arie Kaufman, In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Graphics International 2005, pages 135-142 (PDF)

Accelerated Dispersion Simulation For Urban Security. Feng Qiu , Ye Zhao, Zhe Fan, Xiaoming Wei, Haik Lorenz, Jianning Wang, Suzanne Yoakum-Stover, Arie Kaufman and Klaus Mueller, In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004, pages 553-560 (PDF)

Lattice-based Flow Field Modeling. Xiaoming Wei, Ye Zhao, Wei Li, Zhe Fan, Feng Qiu, Suzanne Yoakum-Stover and Arie Kaufman, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol 10, No 6, Nov 2004, pages  719-729 (PDF)

Blowing in the Wind. Xiaoming Wei, Ye Zhao, Zhe Fan, Wei Li, Suzanne Yoakum-Stover and Arie Kaufman,  In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on  Computer  Animation 2003, pages 75-85 (PDF)

Voxels on Fire. Ye Zhao, Xiaoming Wei, Zhe Fan, Arie Kaufman and Hong Qin, In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2003, pages 271-278 (PDF)

Tutorials and Theses

Tutorial: Interactive Lattice-Based Flow Simulation and Visualization, Ye Zhao, Arie Kaufman, Klaus Mueller, Nils Thuerey, Ulrich Ruede, Klaus Iglberger, IEEE Visualization, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 21, 2008 (Webpage) (Video and Audio at VGTC.ORG)

Ph.D. Theses (please send me email to request the E-copies)

Modeling Natural Phenomena with Lattice Boltzmann Method, Stony Brook University, 2006, Advisor: Arie Kaufman