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VG
2001
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A Survey of Methods for Volumetric Scene Reconstruction from Photographs
Scene reconstruction, the task of generating a 3D model of a scene given multiple 2D photographs taken of
Gregory G. Slabaugh, W. Bruce Culbertson, Thomas M...
VG
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Splatting with Shadows
In this paper we describe an efficient approach to add shadows to volumetric scenes. The light emitted by the lightsource is properly attenuated by the intervening volumetric struc...
Manjushree Nulkar, Klaus Mueller
VG
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Topology-Guided Downsampling
We present a new downsampling method for structured volume grids, which preserves much more of the topology of a scalar field than existing downsampling methods by preferably selec...
Martin Kraus, Thomas Ertl
VG
2001
14 years 1 months ago
An Architecture for Interactive Tetrahedral Volume Rendering
Davis King, Craig M. Wittenbrink, Hans J. Wolters
VG
2001
14 years 1 months ago
A Study of Transfer Function Generation for Time-Varying Volume Data
The proper usage and creation of transfer functions for time-varying data sets is an often ignored problem in volume visualization. Although methods and guidelines exist for time-i...
T. J. Jankun-Kelly, Kwan-Liu Ma
VG
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Image-Based Rendering of Surfaces from Volume Data
We present an image-based rendering technique to accelerate surfaces rendering from volume data. We cache the fully volume rendered image (called keyview) and use it to generate n...
Baoquan Chen, Arie E. Kaufman, Qingyu Tang
CGIM
2003
14 years 1 months ago
A Novel Method for 3D Surface Mesh Segmentation
We propose a novel method for the problem of 3D surface mesh segmentation. This mesh segmentation method is based on differential geometry and geodesic distance information. In ou...
Thitiwan Srinark, Chandra Kambhamettu
CGIM
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Silhouette-Opaque Transparency Rendering
Transparency in 3D graphics has traditionally been created by ordering the transparent objects from back-to-front with respect to the viewpoint, and rendering the opaque objects ï...
O. Sen, C. Chemudugunta, M. Gopi
CGIM
2003
14 years 1 months ago
iSign: Making the Benefits of Reading Aloud Accessible to Families with Deaf Children
In this paper, we describe an application that helps hearing-impaired students learn to read and form words by translating speech into video clips of American Sign Language (ASL)....
T. Scarlatos, Lori L. Scarlatos, F. Gallarotti
CGIM
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Contribution to Color Point Evaluation in Indexing Context
KEY WORDS color models, gray model, local jets, points of interest, indexing, matching.
Stéphane Paris, Houda Chabbi Drissi