Browsing Volume 37 (2018) by Title

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    • A New Class of Guided C2 Subdivision Surfaces Combining Good Shape with Nested Refinement 

      Karčiauskas, Kęstutis; Peters, Jörg (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Converting quadrilateral meshes to smooth manifolds, guided subdivision offers a way to combine the good highlight line distribution of recent G‐spline constructions with the refinability of subdivision surfaces. This ...

    • A New Microflake Model With Microscopic Self-shadowing for Accurate Volume Downsampling 

      Loubet, Guillaume; Neyret, Fabrice (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Naive linear methods for downsampling high-resolution microflake volumes often produce inaccurate appearance, especially when input voxels are very opaque. Preserving correct appearance at all resolutions requires taking ...

    • A New Uniform Format for 360 VR Videos 

      Guo, Juan; Pei, Qikai K.; Ma, Guilong L.; Liu, Li; Zhang, Xinyu Y. (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Recent breakthroughs in VR technologies, especially in economic VR headsets and massive smartphones are creating a fastgrowing demand for 3D immersive VR content. 360 VR videos record a surrounding environment in every ...

    • Non-Local Low-Rank Normal Filtering for Mesh Denoising 

      Li, Xianzhi; Zhu, Lei; Fu, Chi-Wing; Heng, Pheng-Ann (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      This paper presents a non-local low-rank normal filtering method for mesh denoising. By exploring the geometric similarity between local surface patches on 3D meshes in the form of normal fields, we devise a low-rank ...

    • Olfaction and Selective Rendering 

      Harvey, Carlo; Bashford‐Rogers, Thomas; Debattista, Kurt; Doukakis, Efstratios; Chalmers, Alan (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Accurate simulation of all the senses in virtual environments is a computationally expensive task. Visual saliency models have been used to improve computational performance for rendered content, but this is insufficient ...

    • On the Stability of Functional Maps and Shape Difference Operators 

      Huang, R.; Chazal, F.; Ovsjanikov, M. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      In this paper, we provide stability guarantees for two frameworks that are based on the notion of functional maps—the framework of shape difference operators and the one of analyzing and visualizing the deformations between ...

    • On-the-Fly Power-Aware Rendering 

      Zhang, Yunjin; Ortín, Marta; Arellano, Victor; Wang, Rui; Gutierrez, Diego; Bao, Hujun (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Power saving is a prevailing concern in desktop computers and, especially, in battery-powered devices such as mobile phones. This is generating a growing demand for power-aware graphics applications that can extend battery ...

    • Online Global Non-rigid Registration for 3D Object Reconstruction Using Consumer-level Depth Cameras 

      Xu, Jiamin; Xu, Weiwei; Yang, Yin; Deng, Zhigang; Bao, Hujun (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      We investigate how to obtain high-quality 360-degree 3D reconstructions of small objects using consumer-level depth cameras. For many homeware objects such as shoes and toys with dimensions around 0.06 - 0:4 meters, their ...

    • On‐The‐Fly Tracking of Flame Surfaces for the Visual Analysis of Combustion Processes 

      Oster, T.; Abdelsamie, A.; Motejat, M.; Gerrits, T.; Rössl, C.; Thévenin, D.; Theisel, H. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      The visual analysis of combustion processes is one of the challenges of modern flow visualization. In turbulent combustion research, the behaviour of the flame surface contains important information about the interactions ...

    • Packable Springs 

      Wolff, Katja; Poranne, Roi; Glauser, Oliver; Sorkine-Hornung, Olga (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Laser cutting is an appealing fabrication process due to the low cost of materials and extremely fast fabrication. However, the design space afforded by laser cutting is limited, since only flat panels can be cut. Previous ...

    • Packing Irregular Objects in 3D Space via Hybrid Optimization 

      Ma, Yuexin; Chen, Zhonggui; Hu, Wenchao; Wang, Wenping (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Packing problems arise in a wide variety of practical applications. The basic problem is that of placing as many objects as possible in a non-overlapping configuration within a given container. Problems involving irregular ...

    • Parallel Multigrid for Nonlinear Cloth Simulation 

      Wang, Zhendong; Wu, Longhua; Fratarcangeli, Marco; Tang, Min; Wang, Huamin (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Accurate high-resolution simulation of cloth is a highly desired computational tool in graphics applications. As singleresolution simulation starts to reach the limit of computational power, we believe the future of cloth ...

    • Parallel Reinsertion for Bounding Volume Hierarchy Optimization 

      Meister, Daniel; Bittner, Jiří (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      We present a novel highly parallel method for optimizing bounding volume hierarchies (BVH) targeting contemporary GPU architectures. The core of our method is based on the insertion-based BVH optimization that is known to ...

    • Part‐Based Mesh Segmentation: A Survey 

      Rodrigues, Rui S. V.; Morgado, José F. M.; Gomes, Abel J. P. (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      This paper surveys mesh segmentation techniques and algorithms, with a focus on part‐based segmentation, that is, segmentation that divides a mesh (featuring a 3D object) into meaningful parts. Part‐based segmentation ...

    • PCPNet: Learning Local Shape Properties from Raw Point Clouds 

      Guerrero, Paul; Kleiman, Yanir; Ovsjanikov, Maks; Mitra, Niloy J. (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      In this paper, we propose PCPNET, a deep-learning based approach for estimating local 3D shape properties in point clouds. In contrast to the majority of prior techniques that concentrate on global or mid-level attributes, ...

    • PencilArt: A Chromatic Penciling Style Generation Framework 

      Gao, Chengying; Tang, Mengyue; Liang, Xiangguo; Su, Zhuo; Zou, Changqing (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Non‐photorealistic rendering has been an active area of research for decades whereas few of them concentrate on rendering chromatic penciling style. In this paper, we present a framework named as PencilArt for the chromatic ...

    • The Perception of Graph Properties in Graph Layouts 

      Soni, Utkarsh; Lu, Yafeng; Hansen, Brett; Purchase, Helen C.; Kobourov, Stephen; Maciejewski, Ross (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      When looking at drawings of graphs, questions about graph density, community structures, local clustering and other graph properties may be of critical importance for analysis. While graph layout algorithms have focused ...

    • Peridynamics‐Based Fracture Animation for Elastoplastic Solids 

      Chen, Wei; Zhu, Fei; Zhao, Jing; Li, Sheng; Wang, Guoping (© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      In this paper, we exploit the use of peridynamics theory for graphical animation of material deformation and fracture. We present a new meshless framework for elastoplastic constitutive modelling that contrasts with previous ...

    • A Physically Consistent Implicit Viscosity Solver for SPH Fluids 

      Weiler, Marcel; Koschier, Dan; Brand, Magnus; Bender, Jan (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      In this paper, we present a novel physically consistent implicit solver for the simulation of highly viscous fluids using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) formalism. Our method is the result of a theoretical and ...

    • A Physically-based Appearance Model for Special Effect Pigments 

      Guo, Jie; Chen, Yanjun; Guo, Yanwen; Pan, Jingui (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      An appearance model for materials adhered with massive collections of special effect pigments has to take both high-frequency spatial details (e.g., glints) and wave-optical effects (e.g., iridescence) due to thin-film ...