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Rendering huge biological scenes with atomistic detail presents a significant challenge in molecular visualization due to the memory limitations inherent in traditional rendering approaches. In this paper, we propose a novel method for the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ruwayda Alharbi , Ondřej Strnad , Markus Hadwiger , Ivan Viola

Gaussian Splatting (GS) is a recent and pivotal technique in 3D computer graphics. GS-based algorithms almost always bypass classical methods such as ray tracing, which offer numerous inherent advantages for rendering. For example, ray…

Differentiable volumetric rendering-based methods made significant progress in novel view synthesis. On one hand, innovative methods have replaced the Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) network with locally parameterized structures, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Hugo Blanc , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , Alexis Paljic

Direct Volume Rendering is a popular and powerful visualization method for voxel data and other volumetric scalar data sets. Particularly, in medical applications volume rendering is very commonly used, and has become one of the state of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Daniel Ruijters

Interferometric scattering microscopy is a powerful technique that enables various applications, such as mass photometry and particle tracking. Here we present a numerical toolbox to simulate images obtained in interferometric scattering,…

This paper presents a new technique for the virtual reality (VR) visu-alization of complex volume images obtained from computer tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) by combining three-dimensional (3D) mesh processing and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Iva Vasic , Roberto Pierdicca , Emanuele Frontoni , Bata Vasic

Neural networks have shown great potential in compressing volume data for visualization. However, due to the high cost of training and inference, such volumetric neural representations have thus far only been applied to offline data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Qi Wu , David Bauer , Michael J. Doyle , Kwan-Liu Ma

Interactive global illumination remains a challenge in radiometrically- and geometrically-complex scenes. Specialized sampling strategies are effective for specular and near-specular transport because the scattering has relatively low…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Zander Majercik , Thomas Müller , Alexander Keller , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Morgan McGuire

Despite recent progress of automatic medical image segmentation techniques, fully automatic results usually fail to meet the clinical use and typically require further refinement. In this work, we propose a quality-aware memory network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Tianfei Zhou , Liulei Li , Gustav Bredell , Jianwu Li , Ender Konukoglu

Global illumination (GI) is essential for realistic rendering but remains computationally expensive due to the complexity of simulating indirect light transport. Recent neural methods have mainly relied on per-scene optimization, sometimes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Bing Xu , Mukund Varma T , Cheng Wang , Tzumao Li , Lifan Wu , Bartlomiej Wronski , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Marco Salvi

The visualization of volumetric medical data is crucial for enhancing diagnostic accuracy and improving surgical planning and education. Cinematic rendering techniques significantly enrich this process by providing high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Chengkun Li , Yuqi Tong , Kai Chen , Zhenya Yang , Ruiyang Li , Shi Qiu , Jason Ying-Kuen Chan , Pheng-Ann Heng , Qi Dou

Modern-day display systems demand high-quality rendering. However, rendering at higher resolution requires a large number of data samples and is computationally expensive. Recent advances in deep learning-based image and video…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Sudarshan Devkota , Sumanta Pattanaik

Volumetric reconstruction of fetal brains from multiple stacks of MR slices, acquired in the presence of almost unpredictable and often severe subject motion, is a challenging task that is highly sensitive to the initialization of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Junshen Xu , Daniel Moyer , P. Ellen Grant , Polina Golland , Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Elfar Adalsteinsson

In this paper, we present a novel differentiable point-based rendering framework to achieve photo-realistic relighting. To make the reconstructed scene relightable, we enhance vanilla 3D Gaussians by associating extra properties, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jian Gao , Chun Gu , Youtian Lin , Zhihao Li , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao , Li Zhang , Yao Yao

Horizon-based indirect illumination efficiently estimates a diffuse light bounce in screen space by analytically integrating the horizon angle difference between samples along a given direction. Like other horizon-based methods, this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Olivier Therrien , Yannick Levesque , Guillaume Gilet

Swept volume computation, the determination of regions occupied by moving objects, is essential in graphics, robotics, and manufacturing. Existing approaches either explicitly track surfaces, suffering from robustness issues under complex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Pengfei Wang , Yuexin Yang , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

Twenty-five years ago, Crow published the shadow volume approach for determining shadowed regions in a scene. A decade ago, Heidmann described a hardware-accelerated stencil buffer-based shadow volume algorithm. Unfortunately…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Cass Everitt , Mark J. Kilgard

Illumination of scenes is usually generated in computer graphics using polygonal meshes. In this paper, we present a geometric method using projections. Starting from an implicit polynomial equation of a surface in 3-D or a curve in 2-D, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Michal Zamboj , Jakub Řada

In this paper concave surface scanning method based on x-ray scattering in whispering gallery effect is considered. The capabilities of this method are studied based on ray-tracing computer simulation. The dependence of the output x-ray…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-11 Nikolay Ivanov , Andrey Konovko , Anatoli Andreev

The task of capturing and rendering 3D dynamic scenes from 2D images has become increasingly popular in recent years. However, most conventional cameras are bandwidth-limited to 30-60 FPS, restricting these methods to static or slowly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 David Novikov , Eilon Vaknin , Narek Tumanyan , Mark Sheinin