The Visibility octree. A data structure for 3D navigation

This paper describes the Visibility Octree, a data structure to accelerate 3D navigation through very complex scenes. A conservative visibility algorithm that computes and hierarchically stores the structure at a preprocessing stage is presented. The Visibility Octree is used during navigation and i...

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Authors: Saona Vázquez, Carlos Luis, Navazo Álvaro, Isabel|||0000-0001-6298-1463, Brunet Crosa, Pere|||0000-0001-8406-1975
Format: report
Publication Date:1999
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repository:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/93037
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/93037
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Visibility octree
3D navigation
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Summary:This paper describes the Visibility Octree, a data structure to accelerate 3D navigation through very complex scenes. A conservative visibility algorithm that computes and hierarchically stores the structure at a preprocessing stage is presented. The Visibility Octree is used during navigation and its main contribution is its ability to provide an effective control over the coarseness of the visibility approximation. Tests with indoor ship scenes show that the visibility octree performs well on densely occluded environments.