From Far and Near: Perceptual Evaluation of Crowd Representations Across Levels of Detail

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20558v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:39:18 GMT
• Title: From Far and Near: Perceptual Evaluation of Crowd Representations Across Levels of Detail
• Authors: Xiaohan Sun, Carol O'Sullivan,
• Abstract summary: We investigate how users perceive the visual quality of crowd character representations at different levels of detail (LoD) and viewing distances.<n>Our results provide insights to guide the design of perceptually optimized LoD strategies for crowd rendering.
• Score: 1.0742675209112622
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we investigate how users perceive the visual quality of crowd character representations at different levels of detail (LoD) and viewing distances. Each representation: geometric meshes, image-based impostors, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), and 3D Gaussians, exhibits distinct trade-offs between visual fidelity and computational performance. Our qualitative and quantitative results provide insights to guide the design of perceptually optimized LoD strategies for crowd rendering.

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