Shadows, particularly soft shadows, play an important role in the visual perception of a scene by providing visual cues about the shape and position of objects. Several recent alg...
Lionel Atty, Nicolas Holzschuch, Marc Lapierre, Je...
In this paper, we show the importance and feasibility of much faster multi-view stereo reconstruction algorithms relying almost exclusively on graphics hardware. Reconstruction al...
Patrick Labatut, Renaud Keriven, Jean-Philippe Pon...
Abstract— Recently, classical pairwise Structure From Motion (SfM) techniques have been combined with non-linear global optimization (Bundle Adjustment, BA) over a sliding window...
Javier Civera, Oscar G. Grasa, Andrew J. Davison, ...
We introduce a new concept for accelerating realistic image synthesis algorithms. At the core of this procedure is a novel physical error metric that correctly predicts the percep...
Mahesh Ramasubramanian, Sumanta N. Pattanaik, Dona...
Rapidly simulating global illumination, including diffuse and glossy light transport is a very difficult problem. Finite element or radiosity approaches can achieve interactive si...