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Combining estimators for Monte Carlo volume rendering with shading

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Monte Carlo volume rendering (MCVR), which allows for generating X-ray like images, offers significant advantages over existing volume rendering techniques in terms of time and memory complexity. The classical shading for MCVR, however, results in a low quality image. In this paper, a so-called estimators combining technique is presented that estimates a realistic rendering using the Lambertian reflection illumination model. Such a technique is particularly adapted to changes in viewing and lighting, and provides high quality shading images exhibiting strong shape and spatial relationship of objects.

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  1. Institute of Image Processing &Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Xiaoliang Li & Jie Yang

  2. CREATIS – CNRS research unit 5515 &Inserm unit 630, 69621, Villeurbanne cedex, France

    Yuemin Zhu

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Li, X., Yang, J. & Zhu, Y. Combining estimators for Monte Carlo volume rendering with shading. Visual Comput 22, 468–477 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-006-0016-4

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