Reducing the amount of conditional branching instructions in innermost loops is crucial for high performance code on contemporary hardware architectures. In the context of ray tracing algorithms, typical examples for ...

Depth-map-based multi-view stereo algorithms typically recover textureless surfaces by assuming smoothness per view, so they require processing different views to solve occlusions. Moreover, the highly redundant viewpoints ...

Ambient occlusion (AO) for lines (LineAO) was introduced by Eichelbaum et al. [EHS13] as an adaption of screen-space AO to static line bundles, such as white brain matter fiber tracts derived from diffusion tensor imaging ...