Upwelling radiance measurements made with instruments designed to float at the sea surface are shaded both by the instrument housing and by the buoy that holds the instrument. The amount of shading is wavelength dependent and is affected by the local marine and atmospheric conditions. Radiance measurements made with such instruments should be corrected for this self-shading error before being a...

We present an extremely lightweight object-oriented framework for writing shaders. It provides a way to invoke methods of objects from the shading language and to use references of objects as normal variables. Classes are declared and instantiated in the application language using proxy classes. We then apply object-oriented design to several typical shading problems showing their strength comp...

We present an extension to common realtime toon/cel-shading rendering techniques for treating reflective and transparent surfaces in a 3D toon-shading environment. Our approach takes advantage of multi texturing hardware and simple fragment and vertex shader programs. This allows a broad usage on todays gaming platforms.

Users of geographic information systems (GIS) usually render terrain using a point light source defined by an illumination vector. A terrain shaded from a single point provides good perceptual cues to surface orientation. This type of hill shading, however, does not include any visual cues to the relative height of surface elements. We propose shading the terrain under uniform diffuse illuminat...

Stereo-photogrammetric intra-oral measurement of teeth has been reported previously to be worthwhile to dental research, but inherently difficult because of the lack of optical texture in the dental surfaces. Shape-from-shading (SFS) from single imagery suggests itself as an alternative technique for dental measurement simply because a lack of texture is a fundamental necessity for shape-from-s...

Although a lot of research has been performed in the field of reconstructing 3D shape from the shading in an image, only a small portion of this work has examined the association of local shading patterns over image patches with the underlying 3D geometry. Such approaches are a promising way to tackle the ambiguities inherent in the shape-from-shading (SfS) problem, but issues such as their sen...

This paper presents a method to generate dynamic shading of image-based objects without geometric models. Since conventional rendering techniques cannot be used to render the shading of this type of objects, image processing operation, such as interpolation or combination of image data, is performed. However, the variation of the shading of objects is not linear. Therefore, complicated processi...

The response of the meadow-forming seagrass Amphibolis griffithii (Black) den Hartog to light reduction was examined over a 3 mo period and a subsequent 1 mo recovery period. Morphological and physiological variables were measured in meadows subjected to an average reduction in photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) of 88% relative to unshaded controls. Leaf biomass, leaf cluster density and...

Stereo algorithms suuer from the lack of local surface texture due to smoothness of depth constraint , or local miss-matches in disparity estimates. Thus, the stereo methods only provide a coarse depth map which can be associated with a low pass image of the depth map. On the other hand, shape from shading algorithms produce better estimates of local surface areas, but some of them have problem...