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SkyGAN: Realistic Cloud Imagery for Image‐based Lighting

Achieving photorealism when rendering virtual scenes in movies or architecture visualizations often depends on providing a realistic illumination and background. Typically, spherical environment maps serve both as a natural ...

Advances in Data‐Driven Analysis and Synthesis of 3D Indoor Scenes

This report surveys advances in deep learning‐based modelling techniques that address four different 3D indoor scene analysis tasks, as well as synthesis of 3D indoor scenes. We describe different kinds of representations ...

Formation‐Aware Planning and Navigation with Corridor Shortest Path Maps

The need to plan motions for agents with variable shape constraints such as under different formations appears in several virtual and real‐world applications of autonomous agents. In this work, we focus on planning and ...

A Robust Grid‐Based Meshing Algorithm for Embedding Self‐Intersecting Surfaces

The creation of a volumetric mesh representing the interior of an input polygonal mesh is a common requirement in graphics and computational mechanics applications. Most mesh creation techniques assume that the input surface ...

Guided Exploration of Industrial Sensor Data

In recent years, digitization in the industrial sector has increased steadily. Digital data not only allows us to monitor the underlying production process using machine learning methods (anomaly detection, behaviour ...

Interactive Locomotion Style Control for a Human Character based on Gait Cycle Features

This article introduces a data‐driven locomotion style controller for full‐body human characters using gait cycle features. Based on gait analysis, we define a set of gait features that can represent various locomotion ...

Neural Path Sampling for Rendering Pure Specular Light Transport

Multi‐bounce, pure specular light paths produce complex lighting effects, such as caustics and sparkle highlights, which are challenging to render due to their sparse and diverse nature. We introduce a learning‐based method ...

Simplified Physical Model‐based Balance‐preserving Motion Re‐targeting for Physical Simulation

In this study, we propose a novel motion re‐targeting framework that provides natural motions of target robot character models similar to the given source motions of a different skeletal structure. The natural target motion ...

End‐to‐End Compressed Meshlet Rendering

In this paper, we study rendering of end‐to‐end compressed triangle meshes using modern GPU techniques, in particular, mesh shaders. Our approach allows us to keep unstructured triangle meshes in GPU memory in compressed ...

Identifying and Visualizing Terrestrial Magnetospheric Topology using Geodesic Level Set Method

This study introduces a novel numerical method for identifying and visualizing the terrestrial magnetic field topology in a large‐scale three‐dimensional global MHD (Magneto‐Hydro‐Dynamic) simulation. The (un)stable ...

Real‐time Terrain Enhancement with Controlled Procedural Patterns

Assisting the authoring of virtual terrains is a perennial challenge in the creation of convincing synthetic landscapes. Particularly, there is a need for augmenting artist‐controlled low‐resolution models with consistent ...

Visualization of Escher‐like Kaleidoscopic Spherical Patterns of Regular Polyhedron Symmetry

In this paper, we present a method for creating Escher‐like spherical patterns with regular polyhedron symmetries. Using the generators of the symmetry groups associated with regular polyhedra, we first provide fast ...

PPSurf: Combining Patches and Point Convolutions for Detailed Surface Reconstruction

Erler, Philipp; Fuentes‐Perez, Lizeth; Hermosilla, Pedro; Guerrero, Paul; Pajarola, Renato; Wimmer, Michael (© 2024 Eurographics ‐ The European Association for Computer Graphics and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

3D surface reconstruction from point clouds is a key step in areas such as content creation, archaeology, digital cultural heritage and engineering. Current approaches either try to optimize a non‐data‐driven surface ...

Quad Mesh Quantization Without a T‐Mesh

Coudert‐Osmont, Yoann; Desobry, David; Heistermann, Martin; Bommes, David; Ray, Nicolas; Sokolov, Dmitry (© 2024 Eurographics ‐ The European Association for Computer Graphics and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Grid preserving maps of triangulated surfaces were introduced for quad meshing because the 2D unit grid in such maps corresponds to a sub‐division of the surface into quad‐shaped charts. These maps can be obtained by solving ...

Auxiliary Features‐Guided Super Resolution for Monte Carlo Rendering

This paper investigates super‐resolution to reduce the number of pixels to render and thus speed up Monte Carlo rendering algorithms. While great progress has been made to super‐resolution technologies, it is essentially ...

Curvature‐driven Multi‐stream Network for Feature‐preserving Mesh Denoising

Mesh denoising is a fundamental yet challenging task. Most of the existing data‐driven methods only consider the zero‐order information (vertex location) and first‐order information (face normal). However, higher‐order ...

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State of the Art in Efficient Translucent Material Rendering with BSSRDF

Sub‐surface scattering is always an important feature in translucent material rendering. When light travels through optically thick media, its transport within the medium can be approximated using diffusion theory, and is ...