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Image-Based Rendering for Non-Diffuse Synthetic Scenes

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Rendering Techniques ’98 (EGSR 1998)

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Most current image-based rendering methods operate under the assumption that all of the visible surfaces in the scene are opaque ideal diffuse (Lambertian) reflectors. This paper is concerned with image-based rendering of non-diffuse synthetic scenes. We introduce a new family of image-based scene representations and describe corresponding image-based rendering algorithms that are capable of handling general synthetic scenes containing not only diffuse reflectors, but also specular and glossy objects. Our image-based representation is based on layereddepth images. It represents simultaneously and separately both view-independent scene information and view-dependent appearance information. The view-dependent information may be either extracted directly from our data-structures, or evaluated procedurally using an image-based analogue of ray tracing. We describe image-based rendering algorithms that recombine the two components together in a manner that produces a good approximation to the correct image from any viewing position. In addition to extending image-based rendering to non-diffuse synthetic scenes, our paper has an important methodological contribution: it places image-based rendering, light field rendering, and volume graphics in a common framework of discrete raster-based scene representations.

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  1. The Hebrew University, Israel

    Dani Lischinski & Ari Rappoport

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  1. INRIA, Grenoble, France

    George Drettakis

  2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, USA

    Nelson Max

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Lischinski, D., Rappoport, A. (1998). Image-Based Rendering for Non-Diffuse Synthetic Scenes. In: Drettakis, G., Max, N. (eds) Rendering Techniques ’98. EGSR 1998. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6453-2_28

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