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 …

The behavior of daylight inside built settings, though complex, is well understood; and over
past years, designers and researchers investigated different tools and methodologies to …

In computational science and computer graphics, there is a strong requirement to represent
and visualize information in the real domain, and many visualization data structures and …

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 …

Results. A comparison of our vertex connection and merging (VCM) algorithm against
bidirectional path tracing (BPT) and progressive photon map** (PPM)[2, 4] after 30 min of …

This paper presents a simple extension of progressive photon map** for simulating global
illumination with effects such as depth-of-field, motion blur, and glossy reflections …

Monte Carlo techniques for light transport simulation rely on importance sampling when
constructing light transport paths. Previous work has shown that suitable 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 …

We present a new sampling space for light transport paths that makes it possible to describe
Monte Carlo path integration and photon density estimation in the same framework. A key …

Recent years have seen increasing attention and significant progress in many‐light
rendering, a class of methods for efficient computation of global illumination. The many‐light …