Paper Info
Title
Perception-motivated multiresolution rendering on sole-cube maps
Abstract
This paper presents a novel GPU-based multiresolution rendering on sole-cube maps (SCMs), which is a variant of geometry images built upon spherical parameterization. Given spherical parametrization of a manifold mesh, the sphere domain is gnomonically projected to a closed cube, which constitutes the 6-chart sole-cube maps. A quadtree structure of SCMs and normal map atlas are then constructed by using the regular re-sampling. Then, by packing the quadtree nodes into the SCMs texture atlas, a new parallel multiresolution rendering is processed on the latest GPU in two rendering passes: the multiresolution node selection in fragment shader; the triangulation in vertex shader followed by the node culling operation in geometry shader. The proposed approach generates adaptive mesh surfaces dynamically, and can be fully implemented in GPU parallelization. The proposed scheme alleviates the computing load of multiresolution mesh refinement on CPU, and our GPU-based multiresolution rendering is demonstrated with a variety of examples. Our user study confirmed that the visual quality of the SCMs multiresolution rendering, in comparison with the meshes/geometry images rendering, is also highly efficient especially for complex models in large-scale virtual environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s11042-012-1335-2
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multiresolution rendering,Sole-cube maps,GPU processing,Mesh refinement
Computer vision,Polygon mesh,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,3D rendering,Normal mapping,Artificial intelligence,Rendering (computer graphics),Shader,Texture atlas,Cube,Quadtree
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
72
1
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
33
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bin Sheng136861.19
Weiliang Meng2329.47
Hanqiu Sun369685.72
Wen Wu451747.40
Enhua Wu5916115.33