papers-we-love_papers-we-love/computer_graphics

Rendering

• Digital Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Correction using Gyroscopes This is a really great paper that is both complex and straightforward. This paper "present a robust, real-time video stabilization and rolling shutter correction technique based on gyroscopes". I think this is a great paper because it makes a clever use of a commodity technology (smartphones' gyroscopes) to make a state-of-the-art improvement to a central components of phones: video cameras by removing the shakes and rolling shutter artifacts of a video in real-time.

• An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display

• The Rendering Equation

• GigaVoxels : Ray-Guided Streaming for Efficient and Detailed Voxel Rendering - Web page - Project page - Video

Surface reconstruction

• Poisson surface reconstruction - Code

• KinectFusion: Real-time 3D Reconstruction and Interaction Using a Moving Depth Camera

Object modeling

• 3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo - Video

Lighting

• Light Propagation Volumes in CryEngine 3

Bump mapping

• Interactive Horizon Mapping: Shadows for bump-mapped surfaces

Interior mapping

• Interior Mapping: A new technique for rendering realistic buildings

Procedural modeling

• Both of these papers are great examples of a non-traditional application of grammar-driven generation:
  • Procedural Modeling of Buildings
  • Instant Architecture

Shape grammars

• Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of Painting and Sculpture
  • A seminal paper that lead to many interesting applications in graphics as well as more broadly in design; see also the bibliography at shapegrammar.org.