Image Based Rendering Dr. Gary Bishop Dept. of Computer Science Univ.
Models based on images naturally capture the wonderful visual complexity of real places.
Our methods allow a set images of a scene to be reprojected to allow viewing of the scene from new viewpoints with computation proportional to the number of pixels in the output image, rather than proportional to model complexity as in conventional computer graphics. The most difficult of these appears to be the acquisition of image-based models of real environments, an area of potential collaboration among the triangle universities. I will demonstrate an interactive image-based rendering system. This prototype is written in the Java programming language and will be available to remote users during and after the lecture.