Image-based crowd rendering

Image/Based Crowd Rendering

Populated urban environments are very important in many applications such as urban planning and entertainment. However rendering in real time many people in a complex environment is still challenging. In this paper, we propose methods for rendering real time animated crowds in virtual cities. We take advantage of the properties of an urban environment, and the way a viewer and the avatars move ...

Exploiting the Potential of Image Based Crowd Rendering

Per-joint impostors have been used to achieve high performance when rendering thousands of agents, while still allowing us to blend animation. This provides interactively animated crowds and reduces the memory footprint compared to classic impostors. In this poster we exploit the potential of per joint impostors to further increase both visual quality and performance. The CAVAST framework for c...

Impostors, Pseudo-instancing and Image Maps for GPU Crowd Rendering

— Rendering large crowds of characters requires a great amount of computational power. To increase the efficiency for this render, we propose the use of the graphics processor, in combination of two different level-of-detail techniques: impostors, for characters with low detail, and pseudo-instancing, for characters with full detail. In addition, different approaches are used to increase the di...

Image Based Routing for Image Based Rendering

Recent research has shown that capturing a scene using several cameras has many advantages over traditional single viewpoint or stereo capture. Here, we focus on multicamera systems using Internet Protocol (IP) as the mode of communication. As these networks of cameras grow in size, the problem of handling the immense amount of data they are capable of producing becomes an important problem. Ou...

Image-based Rendering *