Density Estimation for Dynamic Volumes

Christian Fuchs¹     Tongbo Chen¹     Michael Goesele²     Holger Theisel³     Hans-Peter Seidel^{1    
1}MPI Informatik     ²University of Washington     ³Bielefeld University    

Abstract

We propose a new approach to capture the volumetric density of dynamic scattering media instantaneously with a single image. The volume is probed with a set of laser lines and the scattered intensity is recorded by a conventional camera. We then determine the density along the laser lines taking the scattering properties of the media into account. A specialized approximation technique reconstructs the full density field in the volume. We apply the technique to capture the volumetric density of participating media such as smoke.

Paper

Christian Fuchs, Tongbo Chen, Michael Goesele, Holger Theisel, and Hans-Peter Seidel. Density Estimation for Dynamic Volumes. Computers and Graphics, 31(2), 2007. Abstract PDF

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