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Real-time depth of field (DoF) rendering is crucial to realistic image synthesis and VR applications. This paper presents a new method to simulate the depth-of-field effects with bilateral depth filtering. Unlike the traditional rendering methods that handle the depth-of-field with Gaussian filtering, we develop a new DoF filter, called adaptive bilateral depth filter, to adaptively postfilter the pixels according to their depth variance. Depth information is used to focus on the objects with edge-preserving property. Our approach can eliminate the artifacts of intensity leakage, which can generate adaptive high-quality DoF rendering effects dynamically, and can be fully implemented in GPU parallelization.
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Wu, S., Yu, K., Sheng, B., Huang, F., Gao, F., Ma, L. (2012). Accurate Depth-of-Field Rendering Using Adaptive Bilateral Depth Filtering. In: Hu, SM., Martin, R.R. (eds) Computational Visual Media. CVM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7633. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34263-9_33
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