I3D

We propose a real-time method for rendering rigid objects with complex view-dependent effects under distant all-frequency lighting. Existing precomputed light transport approaches can render rich global illumination effects, but high-frequency view-...

We propose a precomputation-based approach for the real-time rendering of scenes that include a number of complex illumination phenomena, such as radiosity and subsurface scattering, and allows interactive modification of camera and lighting parameters. ...

Normal mapping is a variant of bump mapping that is commonly used in computer games. It models complex surface variations by explicitly storing a surface normal in a texture map. However, it has not been used with precomputed radiance transfer (PRT), a ...

The human hand is an important interface with complex shape and movement. In virtual reality and gaming applications the use of an individualized rather than generic hand representation can increase the sense of immersion and in some cases may lead to ...

Motion capture data from human subjects exhibits considerable redundancy. In this paper, we propose novel methods for exploiting this redundancy. In particular, we set out to find a subset of motion-capture markers that are able to provide fast and high-...

Animating 3D faces to achieve compelling realism is a challenging task in the entertainment industry. Previously proposed face transfer approaches generally require a high-quality animated source face in order to transfer its motion to new 3D faces. In ...

Footskate, where a character's foot slides on the ground when it should be planted firmly, is a common artifact resulting from almost any attempt to modify motion capture data. We describe an online method for fixing footskate that requires no manual ...

The ability to represent non-height-field mesostructure details is of great importance for rendering complex surface patterns, such as weave and multilayer structures. Currently, such representations are based on the use of 3D textures or large datasets ...

This paper presents a per-pixel ray tracing algorithm with dynamic lighting of surfaces in real-time on the GPU. First, we propose a method for increased precision of the critical ray-height field intersection and adaptive height field sampling. We ...

This paper presents a novel approach that uses graphics hardware to dynamically calculate a voxel-based representation of a scene. The voxelization is obtained on run-time in the order of milliseconds, even for complex and dynamic scenes containing more ...

As GPU-powered special effects become more sophisticated, it becomes harder to create and manage effect interaction using the fairly primitive shading languages. This difficulty also introduces a workflow problem: artists design effects but only ...

Natural scenes contain large amounts of geometry, such as hundreds of thousands or even millions of tree leaves and grass blades. Subtle lighting effects present in such environments usually include a significant amount of occlusion effects and lighting ...

In this paper we present a novel method for plausible real-time rendering of indirect illumination effects for diffuse and non-diffuse surfaces. The scene geometry causing indirect illumination is captured by an extended shadow map, as proposed in ...

We present an interactive approach for generating realistic physically-based sounds from rigid-body dynamic simulations. We use spring-mass systems to model each object's local deformation and vibration, which we demonstrate to be an adequate ...

This paper studies jump flooding as an algorithmic paradigm in the general purpose computation with GPU. As an example application of jump flooding, the paper discusses a constant time algorithm on GPU to compute an approximation to the Voronoi diagram ...

We present an interactive algorithm to compute discretized 3D Euclidean distance fields. Given a set of piecewise linear geometric primitives, our algorithm computes the distance field for each slice of a uniform spatial grid. We express the non-linear ...

We present a vector graphics representation suitable for real-time rendering on GPUs. Our representation can be used in place of a texture map, and renders precise antialiased edges at any magnification. A combination of texture data and procedural ...

We present a method to view-dependently control the size of shape features depicted in computer-generated line drawings of 3D meshes. Our method exhibits good temporal coherence during level of detail transitions, and is fast because the calculations ...

Rendering a scene using a single depth image suffers from disocclusion errors as the view translates away from the reference view. We present the depth discontinuity occlusion camera (DDOC), a non-pinhole camera that samples surfaces which are hidden in ...

Accurate refraction, thanks to raytracing, has always been a popular effect in computer graphics imagery. However, its use has been severely hindered in interactive rendering due to the lack of efficient and realistic techniques geared toward polygon ...

Interactive applications require simplifications to lighting, geometry, and material properties that preclude many effects encountered in the physical world. Until recently only the most simplistic reflections and refractions could be performed ...

Shadow maps are a widely used shadowing technique in real time graphics. One major drawback of their use is that they cannot be filtered in the same way as color textures, typically leading to severe aliasing. This paper introduces variance shadow maps, ...

We describe a new interactive system for 3D design review, built to exploit the visual perception cue of motion parallax, in order to enhance shape perception and aesthetic evaluation. Traditional CAD applications typically use "bookmarked" static views ...

Three-dimensional visualization is a valuable technique in the oil industry. One of its important applications is for inspecting black oil reservoir models, allowing engineers to design and analyze different model configurations, focusing on maximum ...

Are there repercussions from 3D graphics being used in the majority of current video games? This research investigates whether the use of 2D and 3D graphics in video games affect the extent of how attracted a male is to playing an electronic game versus ...

In this paper, we propose a new technique for hardware accelerated multi-resolution geometry synthesis. The level of detail for a given viewpoint is created on-the-fly, allowing for an almost unlimited model resolution in rendering without excessive ...

Visual patterns on the surface of an object, such as two dimensional texture, are taken into consideration as part of the geometry remeshing process. Given a parameterized mesh and a texture map, the visual perceptual properties of the texture are first ...

We describe an automatic preprocessing algorithm that reorders triangles in a mesh so as to enable the graphics hardware to efficiently cull vertex and pixel processing at rendering time.Our method starts by dividing the mesh into planar clusters which ...