Generalized Image Acquisition and Analysis
Performance Capture of High-Speed Motion Using Staggered Multi-View Recording
We present a markerless performance capture system that can acquire the motion and the texture of human actors
performing fast movements using only commodity hardware. To this end we introduce two novel concepts: First, a
staggered surround multi-view recording setup that enables us to perform model-based motion capture on motion-blurred
images, and second, a model-based deblurring algorithm which is able to handle disocclusion, self-occlusion and
complex object motions. We show that the model-based approach is not only a powerful strategy for tracking but also for
deblurring highly complex blur patterns.
Projects
Eikonal Rendering: Efficient Light Transport in Refractive Objects
In: Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007.
Abstract
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.
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journal = "ACM Trans. on Graphics (Siggraph'07)",
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title = "Eikonal Rendering: Efficient Light Transport in Refractive Objects",
journal = "ACM Trans. on Graphics (Siggraph'07)",
year = "2007",
month = aug,
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