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...
Logarithmic shadow maps can deliver the same quality as competing shadow map algorithms with substantially less storage and bandwidth. We show how current GPU architectures can be...
Brandon Lloyd, Naga K. Govindaraju, Steven E. Moln...
This paper addresses the problem of efficiently calculating shadows from environment maps in the context of ray-tracing. Since accurate rendering of shadows from environment maps ...
Aner Ben-Artzi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala
Generating soft shadows in real time is difficult. Exact methods (such as ray tracing, and multiple light source simulation) are too slow, while approximate methods often overesti...
Xiao-Hua Cai, Yun-Tao Jia, Xi Wang, Shi-Min Hu, Ra...
Photometric stereo is a method of recovering surface normals (needle map) from images. The surface integral of surface normals is used to reconstruct a depth map; however, the dep...
Koh Kakusho, Koki Hamada, Masaaki Iiyama, Michihik...