Interactive exploration of augmented aerial scenes with free-viewpoint image generation from pre-rendered images

This study proposes a framework to photorealistically synthesize virtual objects and virtualized real-world. We combine the offline rendering of virtual objects and the free-viewpoint image generation to take advantage of the higher quality of offline rendering without the computational cost of online computer graphics (CG) rendering; i.e., it incurs only the cost of the online computation for the free-viewpoint image generation. In addition, the generation of structured viewpoints (e.g., at every grid point) reduces the computational costs required to online process.