Monte Carlo integration is firmly established as the basis for most practical realistic image
synthesis algorithms because of its flexibility and generality. However, the visual quality of …

The wide adoption of path‐tracing algorithms in high‐end realistic rendering has stimulated
many diverse research initiatives. In this paper we present a coherent survey of methods that …

Pixar's RenderMan renderer is used to render all of Pixar's films and by many film studios to
render visual effects for live-action movies. RenderMan started as a scanline renderer based …

We present a technique for efficiently synthesizing images of atmospheric clouds using a
combination of Monte Carlo integration and neural networks. The intricacies of Lorenz-Mie …

Volume rendering under complex, dynamic lighting is challenging, especially if targeting
real-time. To address this challenge, we extend a recent direct illumination sampling …

Recent advances in ultra-fast imaging have triggered many promising applications in
graphics and vision, such as capturing transparent objects, estimating hidden geometry and …

Evaluating transmittance within participating media is a fundamental operation required by
many light transport algorithms. We present ratio tracking and residual tracking, two …

Multiple Importance Sampling (MIS) is a key technique for achieving robustness of Monte
Carlo estimators in computer graphics and other fields. We derive optimal weighting …

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 …

We introduce a non-exponential radiative framework that takes into account the local spatial
correlation of scattering particles in a medium. Most previous works in graphics have …