Interactive Monte Carlo denoising using affinity of neural features

M Işık, K Mullia, M Fisher, J Eisenmann… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
High-quality denoising of Monte Carlo low-sample renderings remains a critical challenge
for practical interactive ray tracing. We present a new learning-based denoiser that achieves …

CAD-ASTRA: a versatile and efficient mesh projector for X-ray tomography with the ASTRA-toolbox

P Paramonov, N Francken, J Renders, D Iuso… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Accurate and fast simulation of X-ray projection data from mesh models has many
applications in academia and industry, ranging from 3D X-ray computed tomography (XCT) …

Navigation among movable obstacles with object localization using photorealistic simulation

K Ellis, H Zhang, D Stoyanov… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While mobile navigation has been focused on obstacle avoidance, Navigation Among
Movable Obstacles (NAMO) via interaction with the environment, is a problem that is still …

Edge illumination x-ray phase contrast simulations using the CAD-ASTRA toolbox

N Francken, J Sanctorum, P Paramonov, J Sijbers… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Edge illumination x-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) provides increased contrast for low
absorbing materials compared to attenuation images and sheds light on the material …

[PDF][PDF] Weakly-supervised contrastive learning in path manifold for Monte Carlo image reconstruction.

IY Cho, Y Huo, SE Yoon - ACM Trans. Graph., 2021 - sgvr.kaist.ac.kr
© 2021 Association for Computing Machinery. This is the author's version of the work. It is
posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record …

A scalable plant-resolving radiative transfer model based on optimized GPU ray tracing

BN Bailey, M Overby, P Willemsen, ER Pardyjak… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2014 - Elsevier
A new model for radiative transfer in participating media and its application to complex plant
canopies is presented. The goal was to be able to efficiently solve complex canopy-scale …

[PDF][PDF] Scratch-based Reflection Art via Differentiable Rendering.

P Shen, RZ Li, B Wang, L Liu - ACM Trans. Graph., 2023 - wangningbei.github.io
The 3D visual optical arts can produce impressive special effects by designing interactions
between objects and light sources, displaying images in shadows, caustics, or reflectors …

Narpa: Navigation and rendering pipeline for astronautics

RT Eapen, RR Bhaskara, M Majji - arxiv preprint arxiv:2211.01566, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper presents Navigation and Rendering Pipeline for Astronautics (NaRPA)-a novel
ray-tracing-based computer graphics engine to model and simulate light transport for space …

Active Signal Emitter Placement In Complex Environments

CE Denniston, B Şenbaşlar… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Placement of electromagnetic signal emitting devices, such as light sources, has important
usage for signal coverage tasks. Automatic placement of these devices is challenging …

Accelerating IceCube's Photon propagation code with CUDA

H Schwanekamp, R Hohl, D Chirkin, T Gibbs… - Computing and Software …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino detector located at
the geographic South Pole designed to detect high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. To …