Simplifying complex environments using incremental textured depth meshes

TL;DR: The proposed aggressive visibility solution is based on stochastic ray shooting and can take any triangular model as input and can therefore process any given input scene, alleviating the large memory consumption problems prevalent in several previous algorithms.

TL;DR: An overview of output-sensitive rendering algorithms proposed to overcome the challenge of exponentially increasing size of 3D models prohibits rendering them using brute force methods.

TL;DR: A novel aggressive visibility preprocessing technique that exploits commodity graphics hardware and is faster than most conservative solutions, while simultaneously not overestimating the set of visible polygons, and an effective error minimization heuristic is developed.

TL;DR: A set of adaptive sampling strategies based on ray mutations that exploit the spatial coherence of visibility are proposed, which provides a practical solution to visibility preprocessing and enables a new type of interactive visibility analysis application.

TL;DR: This paper presents a volumetric method for integrating range images that is able to integrate a large number of range images yielding seamless, high-detail models of up to 2.6 million triangles.

TL;DR: An image-based rendering system based on sampling, reconstructing, and resampling the plenoptic function is presented and a novel visible surface algorithm and a geometric invariant for cylindrical projections that is equivalent to the epipolar constraint defined for planar projections are introduced.

TL;DR: A set of efficient image based rendering methods capable of rendering multiple frames per second on a PC that warps Sprites with Depth representing smooth surfaces without the gaps found in other techniques and splatting an efficient solution to the resampling problem.

TL;DR: This paper defines efficient refinement criteria based on the view frustum, surface orientation, and screen-space geometric error, and develops a real-time algorithm for incrementally refining and coarsening the mesh according to these criteria.