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Camera-Sampling Field and Its Applications
May/June 2004 (vol. 10 no. 3)
pp. 241-251
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Ping-Hsien Lin, Tong-Yee Lee, "Camera-Sampling Field and Its Applications," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 241-251, May/June, 2004.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2004.1272724,
author = {Ping-Hsien Lin and Tong-Yee Lee},
title = {Camera-Sampling Field and Its Applications},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {10},
number = {3},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2004},
pages = {241-251},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2004.1272724},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - Camera-Sampling Field and Its Applications
IS - 3
SN - 1077-2626
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A1 - Ping-Hsien Lin,
A1 - Tong-Yee Lee,
PY - 2004
KW - Camera-sampling field
KW - image-based rendering (IBR)
KW - layered depth image (LDI)
KW - level of detail (LOD)
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JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Abstract—In this paper, we propose a novel vector field, called a camera-sampling field, to represent the sampling density distribution of a pinhole camera. We give the derivation and discuss some essential properties of the camera-sampling field, including flux, divergence, curl, gradient, level surface, and sampling patterns. This vector field reveals camera-sampling concisely and facilitates camera sampling analysis. The usage for this vector field in several computer graphics applications is introduced, such as determining the splat kernel for image-based rendering, texture filtering, mipmap level selection, level transition criteria for LOD, and LDI-construction.

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Index Terms:
Camera-sampling field, image-based rendering (IBR), layered depth image (LDI), level of detail (LOD), splatting.
Citation:
Ping-Hsien Lin, Tong-Yee Lee, "Camera-Sampling Field and Its Applications," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 241-251, May/June 2004, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2004.1272724
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