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    • Naturalness-Preserving Image Tone Enhancement Using Generative Adversarial Networks 

      Son, Hyeongseok; Lee, Gunhee; Cho, Sunghyun; Lee, Seungyong (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      This paper proposes a deep learning-based image tone enhancement approach that can maximally enhance the tone of an image while preserving the naturalness. Our approach does not require carefully generated ground-truth ...
    • Offline Deep Importance Sampling for Monte Carlo Path Tracing 

      Bako, Steve; Meyer, Mark; DeRose, Tony; Sen, Pradeep (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      Although modern path tracers are successfully being applied to many rendering applications, there is considerable interest to push them towards ever-decreasing sampling rates. As the sampling rate is substantially reduced, ...
    • Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications 2019 - CGF38-7: Frontmatter 

      Lee, Jehee; Theobalt, Christian; Wetzstein, Gordon (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
    • Parallel Generation and Visualization of Bacterial Genome Structures 

      Klein, Tobias; Mindek, Peter; Autin, Ludovic; Goodsell, David; Olson, Arthur; Groeller, Eduard; Viola, Ivan (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      Visualization of biological mesoscale models provides a glimpse at the inner workings of living cells. One of the most complex components of these models is DNA, which is of fundamental importance for all forms of life. ...
    • A PatchMatch-based Approach for Matte Propagation in Videos 

      Backes, Marcos; Menezes de Oliveira Neto, Manuel (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      Despite considerable advances in natural image matting over the last decades, video matting still remains a difficult problem. The main challenges faced by existing methods are the large amount of user input required, and ...
    • Pencil Drawing Video Rendering Using Convolutional Networks 

      Yan, Dingkun; Sheng, Yun; Mao, Xiaoyang (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      Traditional pencil drawing rendering algorithms when applied to video may suffer from temporal inconsistency and showerdoor effect due to the stochastic noise models employed. This paper attempts to resolve these problems ...
    • Polycube Shape Space 

      Zhao, Hui; Li, Xuan; Wang, Wencheng; Wang, Xiaoling; Wang, Shaodong; Lei, Na; Gu, Xianfeng (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      There are many methods proposed for generating polycube polyhedrons, but it lacks the study about the possibility of generating polycube polyhedrons. In this paper, we prove a theorem for characterizing the necessary ...
    • Practical Foldover-Free Volumetric Mapping Construction 

      Su, Jian-Ping; Fu, Xiao-Ming; Liu, Ligang (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      In this paper, we present a practically robust method for computing foldover-free volumetric mappings with hard linear constraints. Central to this approach is a projection algorithm that monotonically and efficiently ...
    • Procedural Riverscapes 

      Peytavie, Adrien; Dupont, Thibault; Guérin, Eric; Cortial, Yann; Benes, Bedrich; Gain, James; Galin, Eric (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      This paper addresses the problem of creating animated riverscapes through a novel procedural framework that generates the inscribing geometry of a river network and then synthesizes matching real-time water movement ...
    • Pyramid Multi-View Stereo with Local Consistency 

      Liao, Jie; Fu, Yanping; Yan, Qingan; Xiao, Chunxia (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      In this paper, we propose a PatchMatch-based Multi-View Stereo (MVS) algorithm which can efficiently estimate geometry for the textureless area. Conventional PatchMatch-based MVS algorithms estimate depth and normal ...
    • Rain Wiper: An Incremental RandomlyWired Network for Single Image Deraining 

      Liang, Xiwen; Qiu, Bin; Su, Zhuo; Gao, Chengying; Shi, Xiaohong; Wang, Ruomei (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      Single image rain removal is a challenging ill-posed problem due to various shapes and densities of rain streaks. We present a novel incremental randomly wired network (IRWN) for single image deraining. Different from ...
    • Real-time Indirect Illumination of Emissive Inhomogeneous Volumes using Layered Polygonal Area Lights 

      Kuge, Takahiro; Yatagawa, Tatsuya; Morishima, Shigeo (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      Indirect illumination involving with visually rich participating media such as turbulent smoke and loud explosions contributes significantly to the appearances of other objects in a rendering scene. However, previous ...
    • Reliable Rolling-guided Point Normal Filtering for Surface Texture Removal 

      Sun, Yangxing; Chen, Honghua; Qin, Jing; Li, Hongwei; Wei, Mingqiang; Zong, Hua (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      Semantic surface decomposition (SSD) facilitates various geometry processing and product re-design tasks. Filter-based techniques are meaningful and widely used to achieve the SSD, which however often leads to surface ...
    • A Rigging-Skinning Scheme to Control Fluid Simulation 

      Lu, Jia-Ming; Chen, Xiao-Song; Yan, Xiao; Li, Chen-Feng; Lin, Ming; Hu, Shi-Min (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      Inspired by skeletal animation, a novel rigging-skinning flow control scheme is proposed to animate fluids intuitively and efficiently. The new animation pipeline creates fluid animation via two steps: fluid rigging and ...
    • RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication using 3D-Printed Joints and Precision-Cut Rods 

      Jacobson, Alec (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      We present RodSteward, a design-to-assembly system for creating furniture-scale structures composed of 3D-printed joints and precision-cut rods. The RodSteward systems consists of: RSDesigner, a fabrication-aware design ...
    • Scale-adaptive Structure-preserving Texture Filtering 

      Song, Chengfang; Xiao, Chunxia; Lei, Ling; Sui, Haigang (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      This paper proposes a scale-adaptive filtering method to improve the performance of structure-preserving texture filtering for image smoothing. With classical texture filters, it usually is challenging to smooth texture ...
    • Seamless Mipmap Filtering for Dual Paraboloid Maps 

      Wang, Zhenni; Ho, Tze Yui; Leung, Chi-Sing; Wong, Eric Wing Ming (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      Dual paraboloid mapping is an approach for environment mapping. Its major advantage is its fast map generation speed. For graphics applications, when filtering is needed, the filtering tool would naturally be mipmapping. ...
    • Selecting Texture Resolution Using a Task-specific Visibility Metric 

      Wolski, Krzysztof; Giunchi, Daniele; Kinuwaki, Shinichi; Didyk, Piotr; Myszkowski, Karol; Steed, Anthony; Mantiuk, Rafal K. (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      In real-time rendering, the appearance of scenes is greatly affected by the quality and resolution of the textures used for image synthesis. At the same time, the size of textures determines the performance and the memory ...
    • Shadow Inpainting and Removal Using Generative Adversarial Networks with Slice Convolutions 

      Wei, Jinjiang; Long, Chengjiang; Zou, Hua; Xiao, Chunxia (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      In this paper, we propose a two-stage top-down and bottom-up Generative Adversarial Networks (TBGANs) for shadow inpainting and removal which uses a novel top-down encoder and a bottom-up decoder with slice convolutions. ...
    • ShutterApp: Spatio-temporal Exposure Control for Videos 

      Salamon, Nestor; Billeter, Markus; Eisemann, Elmar (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019)
      A camera's shutter controls the incoming light that is reaching the camera sensor. Different shutters lead to wildly different results, and are often used as a tool in movies for artistic purpose, e.g., they can indirectly ...