Image-based modeling and rendering has been a very active research topic as a powerful alternative to traditional geometry-based techniques for image synthesis. In this area, computer vision algorithms are used to process and interpret real-world photos or videos in order to build a model of a scene, while computer graphics techniques use this model to create photorealistic images based on the captured photographs or videos. The purpose of this work is to investigate rendering techniques capable of delivering visually accurate virtual views of a scene in real-time. Even though this work is mainly focused on the rendering task, without the reconstruction of the depth map, it implicitly overcomes common errors in depth estimation, yielding virtual views with an acceptable level of realism. Tests with publicly available datasets are also presented to validate our framework and to illustrate some limitations in the IBR general approach.