Video-based rendering

Driven by consumer-market applications that enjoy steadily increasing economic importance, graphics hardware and rendering algorithms are a central focus of computer graphics research. Video-based rendering is an approach that aims to overcome the current bottleneck in the time-consuming modeling process and has applications in areas such as computer games, special effects, and interactive TV. This book offers an in-depth introduction to video-based rendering, a rapidly developing new interdisciplinary topic employing techniques from computer graphics, computer vision, and telecommunication engineering. Providing an overview of the state-of-the-art of video-based rendering and details of the fundamental VBR algorithms, the author discusses the advantages, the potential, as well as the limitations of the approach in the context of different application scenarios. Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 1. Introduction......Page 16 2.1 Acquisition......Page 20 2.2 Geometry Reconstruction from Multiple Views......Page 43 2.3 Image-Based Rendering......Page 51 2.4 Rendering on Graphics Hardware......Page 69 3. Dynamic Light Fields......Page 76 3.1 3D TV......Page 77 3.2 Dynamic Light-Field Warping......Page 82 3.3 Generalized Lumigraphs......Page 99 4.1 VolumetricVisualHulls......Page 104 4.2 Polyhedral Visual Hulls......Page 110 4.3 Image-Based Visual-Hull Rendering......Page 117 4.4 Visual-Hull Rendering on Graphics Hardware......Page 122 4.5 Photo-Hull Rendering on Graphics Hardware......Page 130 5.1 Spatiotemporal View Interpolation......Page 140 5.2 Spacetime-Coherent Reconstruction......Page 146 6. Model-Based Analysis and Synthesis......Page 160 6.1 Free-Viewpoint Video......Page 161 7. Outlook......Page 176 A. Definition of Terms......Page 180 B. Algorithm Overview......Page 181 Bibliography......Page 186 "This book offers an in-depth introduction to video-based rendering (VBR), a rapidly developing interdisciplinary topic employing techniques from computer graphics, computer vision, and telecommunications engineering. Providing an overview of the state-of-the-art of video-based rendering and details of fundamental VBR algorithms, the author discusses the advantages, the potential, as well as the limitations of various VBR techniques in the context of different application scenarios."--Jacket The visual sense is the most sophisticated, most advanced sensory channel connecting the real world to human consciousness.