Real-time rendering of large surface-scanned range data natively on a GPU

Farooq, Sajid (2013) Real-time rendering of large surface-scanned range data natively on a GPU. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

This thesis presents research carried out for the visualisation of surface anatomy data stored as large range images such as those produced by stereo-photogrammetric, and other triangulation-based capture devices. As part of this research, I explored the use of points as a rendering primitive as opposed to polygons, and the use of range images as the native data representation.
Using points as a display primitive as opposed to polygons required the creation of a pipeline that solved problems associated with point-based rendering. The problems inves tigated were scattered-data interpolation (a common problem with point-based rendering), multi-view rendering, multi-resolution representations, anti-aliasing, and hidden-point re- moval. In addition, an efficient real-time implementation on the GPU was carried out.

• Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Keywords: point-based rendering, point-cloud, point-based graphics, multiview rendering
• Subjects: R Medicine > RD Surgery; T Technology > T Technology (General); T Technology > TR Photography
• Colleges/Schools: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Supervisor's Name: Siebert, Dr. Paul
• Date of Award: 2013
• Depositing User: Dr. Sajid Farooq
• Unique ID: glathesis:2013-4573
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 08 Nov 2013 10:56
• Last Modified: 09 Jan 2014 16:44
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/4573

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• http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/84900/