A method to generate soft shadows using a layered depth image and warping

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 265-272

  Im, Yeon Ho ^a   Han, Chang Young ^a   Kim, Lee Sup ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Image based rendering; Shadowing; Soft shadows

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPACITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RAY TRACING; VECTORS;

IMAGE-BASED RENDERING; LAYERED DEPTH IMAGES (LDI); SHADOWING; SOFT SHADOWS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIGHT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 17444409686     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2005.37     Document Type: Article

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