对目前出现的各种基于图象的绘制方法进行分类介绍和综述，同时结合作者的研究工作，指出了需要进一步研究的内容。

Virtual Reality is a high fidelity interface that simulates what you see, hear and act in the nature. Image based rendering is a much attractive topic in last years or two. It has become an important technique which supports modeling and real time rendering in the VR applications. The paper discusses thoroughly many present image based rendering methods and gives a catalogue of them, Moreover, we introduce simply the researches we are undergoing and the future works interested.