Differentiable rendering: A survey

H Kato, D Beker, M Morariu, T Ando… - ar** enables a
multilayer perceptron (MLP) to learn high-frequency functions in low-dimensional problem …

Pifu: Pixel-aligned implicit function for high-resolution clothed human digitization

S Saito, Z Huang, R Natsume… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract We introduce Pixel-aligned Implicit Function (PIFu), an implicit representation that
locally aligns pixels of 2D images with the global context of their corresponding 3D object …

Pamir: Parametric model-conditioned implicit representation for image-based human reconstruction

Z Zheng, T Yu, Y Liu, Q Dai - IEEE transactions on pattern …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modeling 3D humans accurately and robustly from a single image is very challenging, and
the key for such an ill-posed problem is the 3D representation of the human models. To …

Immersive light field video with a layered mesh representation

M Broxton, J Flynn, R Overbeck, D Erickson… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We present a system for capturing, reconstructing, compressing, and rendering high quality
immersive light field video. We accomplish this by leveraging the recently introduced …

Mitsuba 2: A retargetable forward and inverse renderer

M Nimier-David, D Vicini, T Zeltner… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Modern rendering systems are confronted with a dauntingly large and growing set of
requirements: in their pursuit of realism, physically based techniques must increasingly …

Differentiable monte carlo ray tracing through edge sampling

TM Li, M Aittala, F Durand, J Lehtinen - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Gradient-based methods are becoming increasingly important for computer graphics,
machine learning, and computer vision. The ability to compute gradients is crucial to …

Dr. jit: A just-in-time compiler for differentiable rendering

W Jakob, S Speierer, N Roussel, D Vicini - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
DR. JIT is a new just-in-time compiler for physically based rendering and its derivative. DR.
JIT expedites research on these topics in two ways: first, it traces high-level simulation code …

A review on light transport algorithms and simulation tools to model daylighting inside buildings

M Ayoub - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …