Location: 301 College Avenue, Seminar Room

Abstract:
Scene complexity is a major challenge in computer graphics. There is an ever-increasing demand for image quality and interactive performance from applications such as virtual and augmented reality, visualization, architectural and lighting design, and games. The traditional graphics pipeline will not be able to meet these demands.

Feature-driven graphics exploits the limitations of human vision to achieve scalable performance and high quality with complex scenes. In this talk, I will describe several recent projects from my group. Edge-and-point rendering and feature-based textures capture visually important features to achieve scalable high-quality rendering and texturing in interactive applications.
Lightcuts enable illumination of scenes with complex lighting including millions of lights. These new techniques make computer graphics fundamentally more scalable by aligning the graphics pipeline with the human visual system.