Rendering Point Clouds with Compute Shaders

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• Publication Type: Poster
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s): not specified
• Date: November 2019
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-6943-5/19/11
• Event: SIGGRAPH Asia
• Date (to): November 2019
• Date (from): November 2019
• Call for Papers: Call for Paper

Abstract

We propose a compute shader based point cloud rasterizer with up to 10 times higher performance than classic point-based rendering with the GL_POINT primitive. In addition to that, our rasterizer offers 5 byte depth-buffer precision with uniform or customizable distribution, and we show that it is possible to implement a highquality splatting method that blends together overlapping fragments while still maintaining higher frame-rates than the traditional approach.

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@misc{SCHUETZ-2019-PCC,
  title =      "Rendering Point Clouds with Compute Shaders",
  author =     "Markus Sch\"{u}tz and Michael Wimmer",
  year =       "2019",
  abstract =   "We propose a compute shader based point cloud rasterizer
               with up to 10 times higher performance than classic
               point-based rendering with the GL_POINT primitive. In
               addition to that, our rasterizer offers 5 byte depth-buffer
               precision with uniform or customizable distribution, and we
               show that it is possible to implement a highquality
               splatting method that blends together overlapping fragments
               while still maintaining higher frame-rates than the
               traditional approach.",
  month =      nov,
  isbn =       "978-1-4503-6943-5/19/11",
  event =      "SIGGRAPH Asia",
  note =       "Poster presented at SIGGRAPH Asia (2019-11)",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2019/SCHUETZ-2019-PCC/",
}