Stereoscopic Volume Rendering Using Templates

This paper presents an efficient volume rendering technique for generating stereoscopic images. This algorithm is much faster than separately rendering the two images using a standard volume rendering. Unlike reprojection methods, however, our algorithm produces two-eye images, both of which exactly preserve the image quality of a standard volume rendering. As traversing the volumetric data in a slice order, the algorithm renders two-eye images simultaneously. To generate two-eye images, we construct two templates, one for each eye ray. We also propose a technique for image-space supersampling in order to improve the quality of the stereoscopic images.