Section: New Software and Platforms

IBR-Common

Participants : Jerome Esnault, Gaurav Chaurasia, George Drettakis.

This framework provides common tools, utilities and pieces of code to facilitate prototyping of new ideas related to image-based rendering algorithms. Common features include loading shaders, loading images and 3D reconstructions, setting OpenGL context, basic user interface. The factored architecture of the framework allows users to quickly instantiate custom image-based renderers and test them on common datasets. In addition, a CMake structure automates the handling of cross-platform third-party libraries, file systems and compilation. The framework also allowed us to create a version of image-based rendering dedicated to the Immersive Space, in the context of the VERVE EU project.