We describe Embree, an open source ray tracing framework for x86 CPUs. Embree is
explicitly designed to achieve high performance in professional rendering environments in …

Ray tracing is an inherent part of photorealistic image synthesis algorithms. The problem of
ray tracing is to find the nearest intersection with a given ray and scene. Although this …

We present a fast and simple filtering method designed for ray traced Monte Carlo global
illumination images which achieves real-time rates. Even on modern hardware only few …

We present a GPU-based ray traversal algorithm that operates on compressed wide BVHs
and maintains the traversal stack in a compressed format. Our method reduces the amount …

This paper proposes a massively parallel hardware architecture for efficient tracing of
incoherent rays, eg for global illumination. The general approach is centered around …

We propose an audio fingerprinting method that adapts findings from the field of blind
astrometry to define simple, efficiently representable characteristic feature combinations …

Ray‐traced global illumination (GI) is becoming widespread in production rendering but
incoherent secondary ray traversal limits practical rendering to scenes that fit in memory …

While contemporary approaches to SIMD ray tracing typically rely on traversing packets of
coherent rays through a binary data structure, we instead evaluate the alternative of …

In theory, efficient and high-quality rendering of unstructured data should greatly benefit from
modern GPUs, but in practice, GPUs are often limited by the large amount of memory that …

We propose a novel massively parallel construction algorithm for Bounding Volume
Hierarchies (BVHs) based on locally-ordered agglomerative clustering. Our method builds …