Survey of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods in light transport simulation

M Šik, J Křivánek - IEEE transactions on visualization and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Two decades have passed since the introduction of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) into
light transport simulation by Veach and Guibas, and numerous follow-up works have been …

Ensemble metropolis light transport

T Bashford-Rogers, LP Santos, D Marnerides… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This article proposes a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) rendering algorithm based on a
family of guided transition kernels. The kernels exploit properties of ensembles of light …

Stratified Markov Chain Monte Carlo Light Transport

A Gruson, R West, T Hachisuka - Computer Graphics Forum, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling is a powerful approach to generate
samples from an arbitrary distribution. The application to light transport simulation allows us …

Delayed rejection Metropolis light transport

D Rioux-Lavoie, J Litalien, A Gruson… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Designing robust mutation strategies for primary sample space Metropolis light transport is a
challenging problem: poorly tuned mutations both hinder state space exploration and …

[PDF][PDF] Advances in Monte Carlo rendering: the legacy of Jaroslav Křivánek.

A Keller, P Grittmann, J Vorba, I Georgiev, M Sik… - SIGGRAPH …, 2020 - iliyan.com
Jaroslav Křivánek's research aimed at finding that one robust light transport simulation
algorithm that would efficient render any scene with arbitrary illumination complexity. He had …