• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.5_6
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• pp.228-237
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• 2007

displacement mapping enables us to add realistic details to polygonal meshes without changing geometry. We present a real-time artifacts-free inverse displacement mapping method. In each pixel, we construct a ray and trace the ray through the displacement map to find an intersection. To skip empty regions safely, we traverse the image pyramid of displacement map in top-down order. Furthermore, when the displacement map is enlarged, intersection with bilinear interpolated displacement map can be found. When the displacement map is at distance, our method supports mipmap-like prefiltering to enhance image quality and speed. Experimental results show that our method can produce correct images even at grazing view angles. Rendering speed of a test scene is over hundreds of frames per second and the influence of resolution of displacement map to rendering speed is little. Our method is simple enough to be added to existing virtual reality systems easily.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.371-377
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• 2008

Recently the performance of GPU is increasing much faster compared to GPU and GPU is used for various application programs. In this paper, MPEG-2 Decoder is implemented based on a GPU programming language, CG. The proposed methodology is to perform block rendering with texture data according to video standard with very high parallelism by using the pipeline of GPU which is a stream processing structure. To reduce the data bandwidth between system memory and GPU, local memory is used for graphic card. According to the experiment, the proposed scheme shows performance improvement by more than 2 times compared to CPU based scheme.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.445-449
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient multi GPU accelerated image registration technique to correct the motion difference between the pre-contrast CT image and post-contrast CTA image. Our method consists of two steps: multi GPU based image registration and a cerebrovascular visualization. At first, it computes a similarity measure considering the parallelism between both GPUs as well as the parallelism inside GPU for performing the voxel-based registration. Then, it subtracts a CT image transformed by optimal transformation matrix from CTA image, and visualizes the subtracted volume using GPU based volume rendering technique. In this paper, we compare our proposed method with existing methods using 5 pairs of pre-contrast brain CT image and post-contrast brain CTA image in order to prove the superiority of our method in regard to visual quality and computational time. Experimental results show that our method well visualizes a brain vessel, so it well diagnose a vessel disease. Our multi GPU based approach is 11.6 times faster than CPU based approach and 1.4 times faster than single GPU based approach for total processing.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.89-99
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• 2011

We construct surfaces with darts, creases, and corners by blending different types of local geometries. We also render these surfaces efficiently using programmable graphics hardware. Points on the blending surface are evaluated using simplified computation which can easily be performed on a graphics processing unit. Results show an eighteen-fold to twenty-fold increase in rendering speed over a CPU version. We also demonstrate how these surfaces can be trimmed using textures.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.125-129
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• 2018

In the field of computer graphics, rendering speed is one of the most important factors. Contemporary rendering is performed using 3D graphics systems with windowing system support. Since typical graphics systems, including OpenGL and the DirectX library, focus on the variety of graphics rendering features, the rendering process itself consists of many complicated operations. In contrast, early computer systems used direct manipulation of computer graphics hardware, and achieved simple and efficient graphics handling operations. We suggest an alternative method of accelerated 2D and 3D graphics output, based on directly accessing modern GPU hardware using the direct rendering manager (DRM) system. On the basis of this DRM support, we exchange the graphics instructions and graphics data directly, and achieve better performance than full 3D graphics systems. We present a prototype system for providing a set of simple 2D and 3D graphics primitives. Experimental results and their screen shots are included.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.169-178
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• 2010

An effective method to render realistic metallic surface in realtime application is proposed. The proposed method perturbs the normal vectors on the metallic surface to represent small scratches. In general, bump map or normal map method is used to gnerate normal vector perturbation. However, those methods do not show plausible light scattering when applied to anisotropic reflection surface. In order to express metallic surface reflectance, MDF-based BRDF is generally employed. Therefore, the simple normal perturbation does not produce satisfactory metal rendering results. The proposed method employs not only normal perturbation but also deformation of the microfacet distribution function(MDF) that determines the reflectance properties on the surface. The MDF deformation increases the realism of metal rendering. The proposed method can be easily implemented with GPU programs, and works well in realtime environments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1418-1420
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• 2013

GPU는 범용 CPU와는 달리 수백 개의 코어로 이루어져 병렬처리에 특화된 형태로 발전되어 왔으며, 이미지 및 동영상 처리, 유체 역학 시뮬레이션, 의료, 지진 분석 등 점차 많은 영역에서 사용 되고 있다. 최근에는 GPU를 이용하여 볼륨 렌더링을 가속화하는 많은 기법들이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 볼륨 렌더링을 가속화하기 위한 GPU 기반의 쉐아-스큐 워프 기법을 제안한다. 여기서는 GPU를 이용하여 효율적인 메모리 사용, 코어의 활성화, 뱅크 충돌 감소 기법을 이용하여 기존의 CPU 기반 볼륨 렌더링 기법과 비교하여 빠른 시간에 동일한 결과물을 생성한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1651-1654
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• 2010

본 논문은 서버의 3D SW를 클라이언트에 서비스로 제공함에 있어서 실제 실행은 서버에서 이루어지지만 3D 렌더링과 결과 화면은 클라이언트의 GPU로 처리하여 표시하는 GPU 가상화 기반 3D 원격 렌더링 시스템을 설계하고 구현한 것이다. 3D 렌더링에 클라이언트의 GPU를 이용함으로써 클라이언트 수에 비례한 서버의 성능 저하 문제를 해결할 수 있으며, 클라이언트의 GPU 성능을 충분히 이용하면서 서버의 SW를 서비스 받을 수 있는 장점을 가진다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 2011

Recently, various researches have been proposed to accelerate GPU-based volume ray-casting. However, those researches may cause several problems such as bottleneck of data transmission between CPU and GPU, requirement of additional video memory for hierarchical structure and increase of processing time whenever opacity transfer function changes. In this paper, we propose an efficient GPU-based empty space skipping technique to solve these problems. We store maximum density in a brick of volume dataset on a vertex element. Then we delete vertices regarded as transparent one by opacity transfer function in geometry shader. Remaining vertices are used to generate bounding boxes of non-transparent area that helps the ray to traverse efficiently. Although these vertices are independent on viewing condition they need to be reproduced when opacity transfer function changes. Our technique provides fast generation of opaque vertices for interactive processing since the generation stage of the opaque vertices is running in GPU pipeline. The rendering results of our algorithm are identical to the that of general GPU ray-casting, but the performance can be up to more than 10 times faster.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.542-553
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• 2020

Virtual world and simulation need large scale map rendering. However, rendering too many vertices is a computationally complex and time-consuming process. Some game development companies have developed 3D LOD objects for high-speed rendering based on distance between camera and 3D object. Terrain physics simulation researchers need a way to recognize the original object shape from 3D LOD objects. In this paper, we proposed simply automatic LOD framework using point cloud data (PCD). This PCD was created using a 6-direct orthographic ray. Various experiments are performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. We hope the proposed automatic LOD generation framework can play an important role in game development and terrain physic simulation.