›› 2013, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (3): 490-498.doi: 10.1007/s11390-013-1350-4

Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics and Multimedia

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Interactive Depth-of-Field Rendering with Secondary Rays

Guo-Fu Xie1,2 (谢国富), Member, ACM, Xin Sun3 (孙鑫), Member, ACM, and Wen-Cheng Wang1 (王文成), Member, CCF   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 100080, China
  • Received:2012-05-06 Revised:2012-09-18 Online:2013-05-05 Published:2013-05-05
  • Contact: 10.1007/s11390-013-1350-4
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    This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 60773026 and 60833007, and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

This paper presents an efficient method to trace secondary rays in depth-of-field (DOF) rendering, which significantly enhances realism. Till now, the effects by secondary rays have been little addressed in real-time/interactive DOF rendering, because secondary rays have less coherence than primary rays, making them very difficult to handle. We propose novel measures to cluster secondary rays, and take a virtual viewpoint to construct a layered image-based representation for the objects that would be intersected by a cluster of secondary rays respectively. Therefore, we can exploit coherence of secondary rays in the clusters to speed up tracing secondary rays in DOF rendering. Results show that we can interactively achieve DOF rendering effects with reflections or refractions on a commodity graphics card.

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