Abstract: Rendering outdoor scene with high fidelity is a challenging problem due to the complexity of the daylight illumination model involved.This paper presents an efficient hybrid strategy utilizing both the geometry-based rendering and the image-based rendering.Further more，a scheme developed from the image similarity technology can dramatically reduce the data demanded by the common image-based rendering.In the first pass，a simple model of reflectance and material are used to render an approximate image of the scene.Then，this result is refined by an image-based rendering method which supplies effects beyond the geometry-based rendering.In this pass，the key idea is using rather image features than images.So，the huge data of images is not necessary.This strategy gets good balance between the realism，rendering speed and the size of the data.Finally，the images of buildings under daylight are generated to demonstrate the utility of the proposed technique.