IEEE Access • Vol 8
DeepAO: Efficient Screen Space Ambient Occlusion Generation via Deep Network
January 2020 • Dongjiu Zhang, Chuhua Xian, Guoliang Luo, Yunhui Xiong, Chu Han
Ambient occlusion (abbr. AO) plays an important role in realistic rendering applications because AO produces more realistic ambient lighting, which is achieved by calculating the brightness of certain screen parts based on objects' geometry. However, the baseline computation of AO algorithm is time-consuming, which limits its application for real-time rendering. Currently, most AO algorithms are based on screen space to reduce the computational consumption, which leads to unrealistic results due to the usage of ar…