Recent advances in neural rendering indicate immense promise for architectures that learn
light transport, allowing efficient rendering of global illumination effects once such methods …

Previous path guiding techniques typically rely on spatial subdivision structures to
approximate directional target distributions, which may cause failure to capture spatio …

Reproducing physically-based global illumination (GI) effects has been a long-standing
demand for many real-time graphical applications. In pursuit of this goal, many recent …

Importance sampling techniques significantly reduce variance in physically based
rendering. In this article, we propose a novel online framework to learn the spatial-varying …

Multi‐bounce, pure specular light paths produce complex lighting effects, such as caustics
and sparkle highlights, which are challenging to render due to their sparse and diverse …

Global illumination computation in real time has been an objective for Computer Graphics
since its inception. Unfortunately, its implementation has challenged up to now the most …

Real‐time global illumination is a highly desirable yet challenging task in computer
graphics. Existing works well solving this problem are mostly based on some kind of …

This paper presents an efficient environment map sampling algorithm designed to render
high‐quality, low‐noise images with only a few light samples, making it ideal for real‐time …

Importance sampling using a light tree (ie, a hierarchy of light clusters) has been widely
used for many-light rendering. This technique samples a light source by stochastically …

Real-time global illumination is an extremely challenging problem because of its intrinsic
complexity due to the interplay between complex geometry, multiple light bounces, and …