26-Issue 3: Recent submissions
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High-Quality Adaptive Soft Shadow Mapping
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)The recent soft shadow mapping technique [GBP06] allows the rendering in real-time of convincing soft shadows on complex and dynamic scenes using a single shadow map. While attractive, this method suffers from shadow ... -
Global Illumination using Photon Ray Splatting
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)We present a novel framework for efficiently computing the indirect illumination in diffuse and moderately glossy scenes using density estimation techniques. Many existing global illumination approaches either quickly ... -
Bitmask Soft Shadows
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)Recently, several real-time soft shadow algorithms have been introduced which all compute a single shadow map and use its texels to obtain a discrete scene representation. The resulting micropatches are backprojected onto ... -
Precomputed Radiance Transfer Field for Rendering Interreflections in Dynamic Scenes
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)In this paper, we introduce a new representation - radiance transfer fields (RTF) - for rendering interreflections in dynamic scenes under low frequency illumination. The RTF describes the radiance transferred by an ... -
Efficient Reflectance and Visibility Approximations for Environment Map Rendering
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)We present a technique for approximating isotropic BRDFs and precomputed self-occlusion that enables accurate and efficient prefiltered environment map rendering. Our approach uses a nonlinear approximation of the BRDF as ... -
Online Motion Capture Marker Labeling for Multiple Interacting Articulated Targets
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)In this paper, we propose an online motion capture marker labeling approach for multiple interacting articulated targets. Given hundreds of unlabeled motion capture markers from multiple articulated targets that are ... -
Markerless 4 gestures 6 DOF real-time visual tracking of the human hand with automatic initialization
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)In this paper we present a novel computer vision based hand-tracking technique, which is capable of robustly tracking 6+4DOF of the human hand in real-time (at least 25 frames per second) with the help of 3 (or more) ... -
Textured Liquids based on the Marker Level Set
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)In this work we propose a new Eulerian method for handling the dynamics of a liquid and its surface attributes (for example its color). Our approach is based on a new method for interface advection that we term the Marker ... -
Superresolution Reflectance Fields: Synthesizing images for intermediate light directions
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)Captured reflectance fields tend to provide a relatively coarse sampling of the incident light directions. As a result, sharp illumination features, such as highlights or shadow boundaries, are poorly reconstructed during ... -
A Bidirectional Light Field - Hologram Transform
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)In this paper, we propose a novel framework to represent visual information. Extending the notion of conventional image-based rendering, our framework makes joint use of both light fields and holograms as complementary ... -
Stackless KD-Tree Traversal for High Performance GPU Ray Tracing
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)Significant advances have been achieved for realtime ray tracing recently, but realtime performance for complex scenes still requires large computational resources not yet available from the CPUs in standard PCs. Incidentally, ... -
Metropolis Instant Radiosity
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)We present Metropolis Instant Radiosity (MIR), an unbiased algorithm to solve the Light Transport problem. MIR is a hybrid technique which consists in representing the incoming radiance field by a set of Virtual Point ... -
Ray-Casted BlockMaps for Large Urban Models Visualization
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)We introduce a GPU-friendly technique that efficiently exploits the highly structured nature of urban environments to ensure rendering quality and interactive performance of city exploration tasks. Central to our approach ... -
Mesh Segmentation via Spectral Embedding and Contour Analysis
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)We propose a mesh segmentation algorithm via recursive bisection where at each step, a sub-mesh embedded in 3D is first spectrally projected into the plane and then a contour is extracted from the planar embedding. We rely ... -
QuadCover - Surface Parameterization using Branched Coverings
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)We introduce an algorithm for the automatic computation of global parameterizations on arbitrary simplicial 2-manifolds, whose parameter lines are guided by a given frame field, for example, by principal curvature frames. ... -
Highly Parallel Fast KD-tree Construction for Interactive Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)We present a highly parallel, linearly scalable technique of kd-tree construction for ray tracing of dynamic geometry. We use conventional kd-tree compatible with the high performing algorithms such as MLRTA or frustum ... -
Geodesic-Controlled Developable Surfaces for Modeling Paper Bending
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)We present a novel and effective method for modeling a developable surface to simulate paper bending in interactive and animation applications. The method exploits the representation of a developable surface as the envelope ... -
A Finite Element Method on Convex Polyhedra
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)We present a method for animating deformable objects using a novel finite element discretization on convex polyhedra. Our finite element approach draws upon recently introduced 3D mean value coordinates to define smooth ... -
Real-Time Simulation of Thin Shells
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)This paper proposes a real-time simulation technique for thin shells undergoing large deformation. Shells are thin objects such as leaves and papers that can be abstracted as 2D structures. Development of a satisfactory ... -
Adaptive Space Deformations Based on Rigid Cells
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)We propose a new adaptive space deformation method for interactive shape modeling. A novel energy formulation based on elastically coupled volumetric cells yields intuitive detail preservation even under large deformations. ...