Generalized Image Acquisition and Analysis
Eikonal Rendering: Efficient Light Transport in Refractive Objects
We present a new method for real-time rendering of sophisticated lighting effects in and around refractive objects. It enables us to realistically display refractive objects with complex material properties, such as arbitrarily varying refraction index, inhomogeneous attenuation, as well as spatially-varying anisotropic scattering and reflectance properties. User-controlled changes of lighting positions only require a few seconds of update time. Our method is based on a set of ordinary differential equations derived from the eikonal equation, the main postulate of geometric optics. This set of equations allows for fast casting of bent light rays with the complexity of a particle tracer. Based on this concept, we also propose an efficient light propagation technique using adaptive wavefront tracing. Efficient GPU implementations for our algorithmic concepts enable us to render visual effects that were previously not reproducible in this combination in real-time.
Projects
On Plenoptic Multiplexing and Reconstruction
In: International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).
Abstract
Photography has been striving to capture an ever increasing
amount of visual information in a single image. Digital
sensors, however, are limited to recording a small subset of
the desired information at each pixel. A common approach to
overcoming the limitations of sensing hardware is the optical
multiplexing of high-dimensional data into a photograph. While
this is a well-studied topic for imaging with color filter
arrays, we develop a mathematical framework that generalizes
multiplexed imaging to all dimensions of the plenoptic
function. This framework unifies a wide variety of existing
approaches to analyze and reconstruct multiplexed data in
either the spatial or the frequency domain. We demonstrate
many practical applications of our framework including
high-quality light field reconstruction, the first comparative
noise analysis of light field attenuation masks, and an
analysis of aliasing in multiplexing applications.
Project Page Bibtex
@article{Wetzstein:PlenopticMultiplexing:2012,
title={{On Plenoptic Multiplexing and Reconstruction}},
author={Gordon Wetzstein and Ivo Ihrke and Wolfgang Heidrich},
year={2013},
volume = 101,
number = 2,
year = {2013},
pages = {384--400},
}
title={{On Plenoptic Multiplexing and Reconstruction}},
author={Gordon Wetzstein and Ivo Ihrke and Wolfgang Heidrich},
year={2013},
volume = 101,
number = 2,
year = {2013},
pages = {384--400},
}