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CGF
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Interactive, Multiresolution Image-Space Rendering for Dynamic Area Lighting
Area lights add tremendous realism, but rendering them interactively proves challenging. Integrating visibility is costly, even with current shadowing techniques, and existing met...
Greg Nichols, Rajeev Penmatsa, Chris Wyman
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Expression of Emotions in Virtual Humans Using Lights, Shadows, Composition and Filters
Abstract. Artists use words, lines, shapes, color, sound and their bodies to express emotions. Virtual humans use postures, gestures, face and voice to express emotions. Why are th...
Celso de Melo, Ana Paiva
CVPR
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Motion Patterns: High-Level Representation of Natural Video Sequences
This work investigates the use of nonlinear dependencies in natural image sequence statistics to learn higher-order structures in natural videos. We propose a two-layer model that...
Duangmanee Putthividhya, Te-Won Lee
RT
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Metropolis Photon Sampling with Optional User Guidance
We present Metropolis Photon Sampling (MPS), a visual importance-driven algorithm for populating photon maps. Photon Mapping and other particle tracing algorithms fail if the phot...
Shaohua Fan, Stephen Chenney, Yu-chi Lai
NPAR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Felt-based rendering
Felt is mankind’s oldest and simplest textile, composed of a pressed mass of fibers. Images can be formed directly in the fabric by arranging the fibers to represent the image...
Peter O'Donovan, David Mould