Intelligent visibility-based 3D scene processing techniques for computer games

GraphiCon 2005 - International Conference on Computer Graphics and Vision, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Plemenos, Dimitri ^a   Grasset, Jérôme ^b   Jaubert, BenoÎt ^a   Tamine, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^b Institut d'Ingénerie Informatique de Limoges   (France)

Author keywords

Good point of view; Image based modelling; Object simplification; Virtual world exploration; Visual scene complexity

Indexed keywords

GOOD POINT OF VIEW; IMAGE-BASED MODELLING; OBJECT SIMPLIFICATION; VIRTUAL WORLDS; VISUAL SCENE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VISION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISIBILITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84871385358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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