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DHTC: an effective DXTC-based HDR texture compression scheme

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GH '08: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS symposium on Graphics hardware

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Published: 20 June 2008 Publication History

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In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective scheme (named DHTC) for HDR (high dynamic range) texture compression based on the popular LDR (low dynamic range) texture compression scheme -- S3TC/DXTC. In the proposed scheme, the original HDR texture is first pre-processed with adaptive color transform and local dynamic range reduction. Then a color distribution linearization process and a joint-channel texture coding process are applied iteratively to generate the compressed HDR texture at 8 bpp. These techniques lead to near lossless visual quality comparable to and even better than the state-of-the-art HDR texture compression schemes. Since DHTC is built upon the ubiquitous DXTC, dedicated DHTC hardware design only needs moderate extension on current hardware. Furthermore, the proposed DHTC format is not only suitable for HDR textures, but also LDR textures with alpha channels. We believe this paper provides a unique solution to meet all the practical requirements for HDR and LDR texture compression.

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Krajcevski PManocha DKeyser JSander P(2014)Real-time low-frequency signal modulated texture compression using intensity dilationProceedings of the 18th meeting of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games10.1145/2556700.2556719(127-134)Online publication date: 14-Mar-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2556700.2556719
Pekhimenko GSeshadri VMutlu OGibbons PKozuch MMowry TYew PCho SDeRose LLilja D(2012)Base-delta-immediate compressionProceedings of the 21st international conference on Parallel architectures and compilation techniques10.1145/2370816.2370870(377-388)Online publication date: 19-Sep-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2370816.2370870

Index Terms

DHTC: an effective DXTC-based HDR texture compression scheme
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation

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GH '08: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS symposium on Graphics hardware

June 2008

105 pages

ISBN:9783905674095

General Chairs:
Steven Molnar
NVIDIA
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Michael Doggett
AMD

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EUROGRAPHICS: The European Association for Computer Graphics

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Krajcevski PManocha DKeyser JSander P(2014)Real-time low-frequency signal modulated texture compression using intensity dilationProceedings of the 18th meeting of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games10.1145/2556700.2556719(127-134)Online publication date: 14-Mar-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2556700.2556719
Pekhimenko GSeshadri VMutlu OGibbons PKozuch MMowry TYew PCho SDeRose LLilja D(2012)Base-delta-immediate compressionProceedings of the 21st international conference on Parallel architectures and compilation techniques10.1145/2370816.2370870(377-388)Online publication date: 19-Sep-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2370816.2370870

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