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Ninth IEEE Visualization 1998 (VIS '98)
Efficient Warping for Architectural Walkthroughs Using Layered Depth Images
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
October 18-October 23
ISBN: 0-8186-9176-x
Voicu Popescu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anselmo Lastra, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel Aliaga, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Manual de Oliveira Neto, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This paper presents efficient image-based rendering techniques used in the context of an architectural walkthrough system. Portals (doors and windows) are rendered by warping layered depth images (LDIs). In a preprocessing phase, for every portal, a number of pre-rendered images are combined into a LDI. The resulting LDI stores, exactly once, all surfaces visible in at least one of the images used in the construction, so most of the exposure errors are efficiently eliminated. The LDI can be warped in the McMillan occlusion compatible ordering. A substantial increase in performance is obtained by warping in parallel. Our parallelization scheme achieves good load balancing, scales with the number of processors, and preserves the occlusion compatible ordering. A fast, conservative reference-image-space clipping algorithm also reduces the warping effort.
Index Terms:
Hardware Architecture, Parallel processing; Picture/image eneration, Viewing Algorithms; Applications; image-based rendering, parallel warping, occlusion compatible ordering for discrete images, portal, cell, exposure error, layered depth image, clipping, architectural walkthrough
Citation:
Voicu Popescu, Anselmo Lastra, Daniel Aliaga, Manual de Oliveira Neto, "Efficient Warping for Architectural Walkthroughs Using Layered Depth Images," ieee_vis, pp.211, Ninth IEEE Visualization 1998 (VIS '98), 1998
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