A survey on deep learning-based Monte Carlo denoising

Y Huo, S Yoon - Computational visual media, 2021 - Springer
Monte Carlo (MC) integration is used ubiquitously in realistic image synthesis because of its
flexibility and generality. However, the integration has to balance estimator bias and …

ExtraNet: real-time extrapolated rendering for low-latency temporal supersampling

J Guo, X Fu, L Lin, H Ma, Y Guo, S Liu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Both the frame rate and the latency are crucial to the performance of realtime rendering
applications such as video games. Spatial supersampling methods, such as the Deep …

A survey on rendering homogeneous participating media

W Wu, B Wang, LQ Yan - Computational Visual Media, 2022 - Springer
Participating media are frequent in real-world scenes, whether they contain milk, fruit juice,
oil, or muddy water in a river or the ocean. Incoming light interacts with these participating …

Ensemble denoising for Monte Carlo renderings

S Zheng, F Zheng, K Xu, LQ Yan - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Various denoising methods have been proposed to clean up the noise in Monte Carlo (MC)
renderings, each having different advantages, disadvantages, and applicable scenarios. In …

Self-supervised post-correction for Monte Carlo denoising

J Back, BS Hua, T Hachisuka, B Moon - ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Using a network trained by a large dataset is becoming popular for denoising Monte Carlo
rendering. Such a denoising approach based on supervised learning is currently considered …

[PDF][PDF] Deep combiner for independent and correlated pixel estimates.

J Back, BS Hua, T Hachisuka, B Moon - ACM Trans. Graph., 2020 - cs.uwaterloo.ca
Deep Combiner for Independent and Correlated Pixel Estimates Page 1 Deep Combiner for
Independent and Correlated Pixel Estimates JONGHEE BACK, Gwangju Institute of Science …

Nelt: Object-oriented neural light transfer

C Zheng, Y Huo, S Mo, Z Zhong, Z Wu, W Hua… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This article presents object-oriented neural light transfer (NeLT), a novel neural
representation of the dynamic light transportation between an object and the environment …

Neural denoising for path tracing of medical volumetric data

N Hofmann, J Martschinke, K Engel… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we transfer machine learning techniques previously applied to denoising
surface-only Monte Carlo renderings to path-traced visualizations of medical volumetric …

Input-Dependent Uncorrelated Weighting for Monte Carlo Denoising

J Back, BS Hua, T Hachisuka, B Moon - SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Image-space denoising techniques have been widely employed in Monte Carlo rendering,
typically blending neighboring pixel estimates using a denoising kernel. It is widely …

Denoising Monte Carlo renderings via a multi-scale featured dual-residual GAN

Y Lu, S Fu, XH Zhang, N **e - The Visual Computer, 2021 - Springer
Monte Carlo (MC) path tracing causes a lot of noise on the rendered image at a low samples
per pixel. Recently, with the help of inexpensive auxiliary buffers and the generative …