LightSkin: Real-Time Global Illumination for Virtual and Mixed Reality

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2013
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The Eurographics Association
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Synthesizing global illumination effects is a vast field of research for both offline and real-time rendering. While the most important goals for offline rendering are realism and physical correctness, real-time rendering approaches additionally need to be sufficiently fast. In this paper we present a fast and novel global illumination approach ca-pable to realize indirect illumination for diffuse and glossy surfaces based on thousands of virtual area lights even for dynamic scenes. To achieve real-time performance we calculate indirect light influence only on sparse scene points in model-space and interpolate the results for the entire visible scene. A novel shading technique is proposed to support high-frequency indirect lighting effects such as view-dependent glossy reflections without introducing temporal incoherence in dynamic scenes. Since our approach does not require any pre-computation it may be ap-plied to Mixed Reality applications improving the visual integration of virtual content.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/EGVE.JVRC13.017-024
, booktitle = {
Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE - EuroVR
}, editor = {
Betty Mohler and Bruno Raffin and Hideo Saito and Oliver Staadt
}, title = {{
LightSkin: Real-Time Global Illumination for Virtual and Mixed Reality
}}, author = {
Lensing, Philipp
and
Broll, Wolfgang
}, year = {
2013
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
1727-530X
}, ISBN = {
978-3-905674-47-7
}, DOI = {
/10.2312/EGVE.JVRC13.017-024
} }
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