Recent advances in adaptive sampling and reconstruction for Monte Carlo rendering

M Zwicker, W Jarosz, J Lehtinen, B Moon… - Computer graphics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Real-time neural radiance caching for path tracing

T Müller, F Rousselle, J Novák, A Keller - arxiv preprint arxiv:2106.12372, 2021 - arxiv.org
We present a real-time neural radiance caching method for path-traced global illumination.
Our system is designed to handle fully dynamic scenes, and makes no assumptions about …

Spatiotemporal reservoir resampling for real-time ray tracing with dynamic direct lighting

B Bitterli, C Wyman, M Pharr, P Shirley… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Efficiently rendering direct lighting from millions of dynamic light sources using Monte Carlo
integration remains a challenging problem, even for off-line rendering systems. We …

Monte Carlo estimators for differential light transport

T Zeltner, S Speierer, I Georgiev, W Jakob - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Physically based differentiable rendering algorithms propagate derivatives through realistic
light transport simulations and have applications in diverse areas including inverse …

Monte Carlo methods for volumetric light transport simulation

J Novák, I Georgiev, J Hanika… - Computer graphics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The wide adoption of path‐tracing algorithms in high‐end realistic rendering has stimulated
many diverse research initiatives. In this paper we present a coherent survey of methods that …

Lightcuts: a scalable approach to illumination

B Walter, S Fernandez, A Arbree, K Bala… - ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
Lightcuts is a scalable framework for computing realistic illumination. It handles arbitrary
geometry, non-diffuse materials, and illumination from a wide variety of sources including …

On-line learning of parametric mixture models for light transport simulation

J Vorba, O Karlík, M Šik, T Ritschel… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Monte Carlo techniques for light transport simulation rely on importance sampling when
constructing light transport paths. Previous work has shown that suitable sampling …

Illuminating the past: state of the art

J Happa, M Mudge, K Debattista, A Artusi, A Gonçalves… - Virtual reality, 2010 - Springer
Virtual reconstruction and representation of historical environments and objects have been
of research interest for nearly two decades. Physically based and historically accurate …

A monte carlo method for fluid simulation

D Rioux-Lavoie, R Sugimoto, T Özdemir… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present a novel Monte Carlo-based fluid simulation approach capable of pointwise and
stochastic estimation of fluid motion. Drawing on the Feynman-Kac representation of the …

An efficient GPU-based approach for interactive global illumination

R Wang, R Wang, K Zhou, M Pan, H Bao - ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 papers, 2009 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a GPU-based method for interactive global illumination that integrates
complex effects such as multi-bounce indirect lighting, glossy reflections, caustics, and …