Improving the visual realism of virtual surgery
Jin, W.; Lim, Y.-J.; Xu, X.G.; Singh, T.P.; De, S.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 111: 227-233
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 15718733 Document Number: 593966
In this work we focus our attention on improving the visual realism of virtual surgery. A synthetic solution by innovative use of various image-based rendering methods is presented for realistic rendering of virtual surgery scenes. We have, for the first time, developed a methodology for generating virtual surgery scenes with realistic glistening effects by a combination of various image-based rendering techniques, including image mosaicing and view-dependent texture mapping. Realistic examples are presented to showcase the results.