Creating an appearance-preserving level-of-detail (LoD) representation for arbitrary 3D scenes is a challenging problem. The appearance of a scene is an intricate combination of both geometry and material models, and is further complicated by correlation due to the spatial configuration of scene elements. We present a novel volumetric representation for the aggregated appearance of complex scenes and a pipeline for LoD generation and rendering. The core of our representation is the Aggregated Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function (ABSDF) that summarizes the far-field appearance of all surfaces inside a voxel. We propose a closed-form factorization of the ABSDF that accounts for spatially varying and orientation-varying material parameters. We tackle the challenge of capturing the correlation existing locally within a voxel and globally across different parts of the scene. Our method faithfully reproduces appearance and achieves higher quality than existing scene filtering methods. The memory footprint and rendering cost of our representation are decoupled from the original scene complexity.

Yang Zhou

Tao Huang

Ravi Ramamoorthi

Pradeep Sen

Ling-Qi Yan

ACM Transactions on Graphics

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS (TOG) 是一份经过同行评审的科学期刊，旨在传播计算机图形学领域的最新发现。它自 1982 年以来由计算机协会出版。从 2003 年开始，所有在 SIGGRAPH 年度会议上被接受发表的论文都印在该期刊的夏季特刊上。

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal aimed at disseminating the latest research findings in the field of computer graphics. It has been published by the Association for Computing Machinery since 1982. Since 2003, all papers accepted for presentation at the SIGGRAPH annual conference are included in the summer issue of this journal.

《ACM Transactions on Graphics》（TOG）是一本经过同行评审的科学期刊，旨在传播计算机图形学领域的最新研究成果。该期刊自1982年由计算机协会出版。从2003年起，所有在SIGGRAPH年度会议上接受发表的论文均会收录在该期刊的夏季特刊中。

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Appearance-Preserving Scene Aggregation for Level-of-Detail Rendering

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