A survey on bounding volume hierarchies for ray tracing

D Meister, S Ogaki, C Benthin, MJ Doyle… - Computer Graphics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ray tracing is an inherent part of photorealistic image synthesis algorithms. The problem of
ray tracing is to find the nearest intersection with a given ray and scene. Although this …

RTNN: accelerating neighbor search using hardware ray tracing

Y Zhu - Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Neighbor search is of fundamental importance to many engineering and science fields such
as physics simulation and computer graphics. This paper proposes to formulate neighbor …

Survey of Nvidia RTX technology

VV Sanzharov, VA Frolov, VA Galaktionov - Programming and Computer …, 2020 - Springer
Nvidia RTX is a proprietary hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology. Since
implementation details are unknown, there were many questions in the development …

Treelet prefetching for ray tracing

YH Chou, T Nowicki, TM Aamodt - Proceedings of the 56th Annual IEEE …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Ray tracing is traditionally only used in offline rendering to produce images of high fidelity
because it is computationally expensive. Recent Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have …

Intersection prediction for accelerated GPU ray tracing

L Liu, W Chang, F Demoullin, YH Chou… - MICRO-54: 54th Annual …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Ray tracing has been used for years in motion picture to generate photorealistic images
while faster raster-based shading techniques have been preferred for video games to meet …

[PDF][PDF] Examination of the Nvidia RTX

V Sanzharov, AI Gorbonosov, VA Frolov… - CEUR Workshop …, 2019 - researchgate.net
Hardware acceleration of ray tracing is an active research field, but only with the release of
Nvidia Turing architecture GPUs it became widely available. Nvidia RTX is a proprietary …

Vulkan-Sim: A GPU architecture simulator for ray tracing

M Saed, YH Chou, L Liu, T Nowicki… - 2022 55th IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ray tracing can generate photorealistic images with more convincing visual effects
compared to rasterization. Recent hardware advances have enabled ray tracing to be …

{gVulkan}: Scalable {GPU} Pooling for {Pixel-Grained} Rendering in Ray Tracing

Y Gu, Y Wang, Y Sun, Y **ang, Y Jiang, X Hu… - 2024 USENIX Annual …, 2024 - usenix.org
Ray tracing rendering technology enhances scene realism and offers immersive
experiences. However, it demands significant computational resources to trace and compute …

Potamoi: Accelerating neural rendering via a unified streaming architecture

Y Feng, W Lin, Z Liu, J Leng, M Guo, H Zhao… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has emerged as a promising alternative for photorealistic
rendering. Despite recent algorithmic advancements, achieving real-time performance on …

Spatial partitioning strategies for memory-efficient ray tracing of particles

P Gralka, I Wald, S Geringer, G Reina… - 2020 IEEE 10th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
3D particle data is relevant for a wide range of scientific domains, from molecular dynamics
to astrophysics. Simulations in these domains can produce datasets containing millions or …