SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Hierarchical image caching for accelerated walkthroughs of complex environments
SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Surface simplification using quadric error metrics
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Multilevel k-way partitioning scheme for irregular graphs
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
The digital Michelangelo project: 3D scanning of large statues
Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
QSplat: a multiresolution point rendering system for large meshes
Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Streaming QSplat: a viewer for networked visualization of large, dense models
I3D '01 Proceedings of the 2001 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics
Level of Detail for 3D Graphics
Level of Detail for 3D Graphics
Protected interactive 3D graphics via remote rendering
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
Automatic impostor placement for guaranteed frame rates and low memory requirements
Proceedings of the 2005 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games
Geopostors: a real-time geometry/impostor crowd rendering system
ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers
A MapReduce-based indoor visual localization system using affine invariant features
Computers and Electrical Engineering
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Recent advances in sensing and software technologies enable us to obtain large-scale, yet fine 3D mesh models of cultural assets. However, such large models cannot be displayed interactively on consumer computers because of the performance limitation of the hardware. Cloud computing technology is a solution that can process a very large amount of information without adding to each client user's processing cost. In this paper, we propose an interactive rendering system for large 3D mesh models, stored on a remote environment through a network of relatively small capacity machines, based on the cloud computing concept. Our system uses both model- and image-based rendering methods for efficient load balance between a server and clients. On the server, the 3D models are rendered by the model-based method using a hierarchical data structure with Level of Detail (LOD). On the client, an arbitrary view is constructed by using a novel image-based method, referred to as the Grid-Lumigraph, which blends colors from sampling images received from the server. The resulting rendering system can efficiently render any image in real time. We implemented the system and evaluated the rendering and data transferring performance.