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Below is a reverse chronological list of my publications with links to online copies of the papers. For a topical listing, please look at my research page. If you download a paper, please adhere to the copyright terms and constraints of all authors and publishers. A complete list of publications is also available at the Visualization and Graphics Lab page.

Book chapters, journals, and conferences
[conference and journal versions are listed together]

In Press

	Vijeth Dinesha, Neeharika Adabala, and Vijay Natarajan. Uncertainty visualization using HDR volume rendering. [video, subtitles] The Visual Computer, 2012, to appear.
2012
	Harish Doraiswamy and Vijay Natarajan. Output-sensitive construction of Reeb graphs. [video] IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(1), 2012, 146-159. Conference version: Efficient output-sensitive construction of Reeb graphs. ISAAC '08: Proc. Intl. Symp. Algorithms and Computation, LNCS 5369, Springer-Verlag, 2008, 557-568.
2011
	Dilip Mathew Thomas and Vijay Natarajan. Symmetry in scalar field topology. [supplementary material] IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Vis 2011), 17(12), 2011, 2035-2044.
	Suthambhara Nagaraj, Vijay Natarajan, and Ravi S. Nanjundiah. A gradient-based comparison measure for visual analysis of multifield data. [supplementary material] Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis 2011), 30(3), 2011, 1101-1110. (Third Best Paper Award)
	Dilip Mathew Thomas, Vijay Natarajan, and Georges-Pierre Bonneau. Link conditions for simplifying meshes with embedded structures. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17(7), 2011, 2007-2019.
	Suthambhara N. and Vijay Natarajan. Relation-aware isosurface extraction in multi-field data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17(2), 2011, 182-191.
	Preeti Malakar, Vijay Natarajan, and Sathish Vadhiyar. INST: An integrated steering framework for critical weather applications. ICCS 2011: Proc. International Conference on Computational Science, Procedia Computer Science, 4, 2011, 116-125.
	Suthambhara N. and Vijay Natarajan. Simplification of Jacobi sets. In Topological Data Analysis and Visualization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications. Valerio Pascucci, Xavier Tricoche, Hans Hagen, and Julien Tierny (editors), Springer-Verlag, Mathematics and Visualization Series, 2011, 91-102.
2010
	Preeti Malakar, Vijay Natarajan, and Sathish Vadhiyar. An adaptive framework for simulation and online remote visualization of critical climate applications in resource-constrained environments. SC 2010: Proc. IEEE/ACM Supercomputing , 2010, 10.1-10.11.
	Ichitaro Yamazaki, Vijay Natarajan, Zhaojun Bai, and Bernd Hamann. Segmenting point-sampled surfaces. The Visual Computer, 26(12), 2010, 1421-1433. [Springer link] Conference version: Segmenting Point Sets. SMI '06: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Shape Modeling and Applications, 2006, 4-13.
	Harish Doraiswamy, Aneesh Sood, and Vijay Natarajan. Constructing Reeb graphs using cylinder maps. [video, subtitles] SoCG 2010: ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Video / Multimedia track, 2010.
2009
	Scott E. Dillard, Vijay Natarajan, Gunther H. Weber, Valerio Pascucci, and Bernd Hamann. Topology-guided tessellation of quadratic elements. Invited paper in Intl. J. Computational Geometry and Applications, 19(2), 2009, 195-211. (invited paper in special issue of Intl. Symp. Algorithms and Computation, 2006). Conference version: Tessellation of quadratic elements. ISAAC '06: Proc. Intl. Symp. Algorithms and Computation, LNCS 4288, Springer-Verlag, 2006, 722-731.
	Harish Doraiswamy and Vijay Natarajan. Efficient algorithms for computing Reeb graphs. Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, 42, 2009, 606-616. [Elsevier link]
2008
	Manohar B. Srikanth, P.C. Mathias, Vijay Natarajan, Prakash Naidu, and Timothy Poston. Visibility volumes for interactive path optimization. The Visual Computer (Computer Graphics International 2008), 23, 2008, 1-13. [Springer link]
2007
	Vijay Natarajan, Patrice Koehl, Yusu Wang, and Bernd Hamann. Visual analysis of biomolecular surfaces. In Mathematical Methods for Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences. L. Linsen, H. Hagen, and B. Hamann (editors), Springer Verlag, Mathematics and Visualization Series, 2007, 237-255.
	Attila Gyulassy, Vijay Natarajan, Valerio Pascucci, and Bernd Hamann. Efficient computation of Morse-Smale complexes for three-dimensional scalar functions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Conf. Visualization 2007), 13(6), 2007, 1440-1447.
	Attila Gyulassy, Mark Duchaineau, Vijay Natarajan, Valerio Pascucci, Eduardo Bringa, Andrew Higginbotham, and Bernd Hamann. Topologically clean distance fields. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Conf. Visualization 2007), 13(6), 2007, 1432-1439.
	Oliver G. Staadt, Vijay Natarajan, Gunther H. Weber, David F. Wiley, and Bernd Hamann. Interactive processing and visualization of image data for biomedical and life science applications. M. Auer, H. Peng and A. Singh (editors), BMC Cell Biology (special issue), 8:S10, 2007.

2005-2006

• Vijay Natarajan, Yusu Wang, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci, and Bernd Hamann.
  Segmenting Molecular Surfaces.
  Computer Aided Geometric Design, 23(6), 2006, 495-509.
  (special issue on Applications of Geometric Modeling in the Life Sciences)
   
• Attila Gyulassy, Vijay Natarajan, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer and Bernd Hamann.
  A topological approach to simplification of three-dimensional scalar fields.
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(4), 2006, 474-484.
  (invited paper in special issue of IEEE Conf. Visualization, 2005).
  Conference version:
  Topology-based simplification for feature extraction from 3D scalar fields.
  VIS '05: Proc. IEEE Conf. Visualization, 2005, 535-542.
   
• Vijay Natarajan and Valerio Pascucci.
  A topological method for analysis of 3D scalar functions.
  Computer Graphics and Geometry,8(1), 2006, 66-76.
  (invited paper in special issue of Intl. Conf. Shape Modeling and Applications, 2005)
  Conference version:
  Volumetric data analysis using Morse-Smale complexes.
  SMI '05: Proc. Intl. Conf. Shape Modeling and Applications, 2005, 320-325.
   
• Michael Schlemmer, Ingrid Hotz, Vijay Natarajan, Bernd Hamann, and Hans Hagen.
  Fast Clifford Fourier transformation for unstructured vector field data.
  Proc. Intl. Conf. Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, 2005, 101-110.
   

2001-2004

• Herbert Edelsbrunner, John Harer, Vijay Natarajan, and Valerio Pascucci.
  Local and global comparison of continuous functions.
  VIS '04: Proc. IEEE Conf. Visualization, 2004, 275-280.
   
• Vijay Natarajan and Herbert Edelsbrunner.
  Simplification of three-dimensional density maps.
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 10(5), 2004, 587-597.
   
• Herbert Edelsbrunner, John Harer, Vijay Natarajan, and Valerio Pascucci.
  Morse-Smale complexes for piecewise linear 3-manifolds.
  SoCG '03: Proc. ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry. 2003, 361-370.
   
• Kree Cole-MacLaughlin, Herbert Edelsbrunner, John Harer, Vijay Natarajan, and Valerio Pascucci.
  Loops in Reeb graphs of 2-manifolds.
  Discrete and Computational Geometry, 32(2), 2004, 231-244.
  (invited paper in special issue of 19th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2003)
  Conference version: SoCG '03: Proc. ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry. 2003, 344-350.
   
• B.S. Panda, Vijay Natarajan, and Sajal K. Das.
  Parallel algorithms for hamiltonian 2-separator chordal graphs.
  Parallel Processing Letters, 12(1) 2002, 51-64.
  Conference version: IPDPS '01: International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2001.

Ph.D. Dissertation

• Vijay Natarajan.
  Topological analysis of scalar functions for scientific data visualization.
  Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 2004.

Technical Reports and Abstracts

• Nicholas J. Huerta, Megan A. Murphy, Bobby Kansara, Vijay Natarajan, Gunther H. Weber, Dawn Y. Sumner, and Bernd Hamann.
  3D Reconstruction of Intricate Archean Microbial Structures Using Neutron Computed Tomography and Serial Sectioning. Abstract No. IN43B-0331, In Abstract Proceedings of American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2005, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52). [Poster: HiRes, LoRes]
   
• Vijay Natarajan and Rajesh Kumar.
  GMPOLY: A kernel level polyhedral solid modeler.
  White paper, TATA ELXSI, 1999.
   
• Vijay Natarajan.
  On testing the necessary conditions for visibility graphs of simple polygons.
  Research report, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, 1998.
   

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