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 …

Abstract Recent work on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) showed how neural networks can
be used to encode complex 3D environments that can be rendered photorealistically from …

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 …

Recently, virtual reality (VR) technology has been widely used in medical, military,
manufacturing, entertainment, and other fields. These applications must simulate different …

We introduce the walk-on-boundary (WoB) method for solving boundary value problems to
computer graphics. WoB is a grid-free Monte Carlo solver for certain classes of second order …

We present a robust, unbiased technique for intelligent light‐path construction in path‐
tracing algorithms. Inspired by existing path‐guiding algorithms, our method learns an …

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

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 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 …