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Accurate light source acquisition and rendering

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Michael Goesele,

Xavier Granier,

Wolfgang Heidrich,

Hans-Peter SeidelAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 22, Issue 3

Pages 621 - 630

https://doi.org/10.1145/882262.882316

Published: 01 July 2003 Publication History

Abstract

Realistic image synthesis requires both complex and realistic models of real-world light sources and efficient rendering algorithms to deal with them. In this paper, we describe a processing pipeline for dealing with complex light sources from acquisition to global illumination rendering. We carefully design optical filters to guarantee high precision measurements of real-world light sources. We discuss two practically feasible setups that allow us to measure light sources with different characteristics. Finally, we introduce an efficient importance sampling algorithm for our representation that can be used, for example, in conjunction with Photon Maps.

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Index Terms

Accurate light source acquisition and rendering
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document capture
      1. Document scanning
      2. Graphics recognition and interpretation
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
    2. Rendering
      1. Ray tracing

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ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 22, Issue 3

July 2003

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ISSN:0730-0301

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DOI:10.1145/882262

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