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A Full-Wave Reference Simulator for Computing Surface Reflectance

Computing light reflection from rough surfaces is an important topic in computer graphics. Reflection models developed based on geometric optics fail to capture wave effects such as diffraction and interference, while existing models based on physical opti ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Differentiable inverse rendering based on radiative backpropagation

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Merlin Eléazar Nimier-David

A computer-implemented inverse rendering method is provided. The method comprises: computing an adjoint image by differentiating an objective function that evaluates the quality of a rendered image, image elements of the adjoint image encoding the sensitiv ...

2021

Practical Product Path Guiding Using Linearly Transformed Cosines

Wenzel Alban Jakob

Path tracing is now the standard method used to generate realistic imagery in many domains, e.g., film, special effects, architecture etc. Path guiding has recently emerged as a powerful strategy to counter the notoriously long computation times required t ...

WILEY2020

Image-Based Acquisition and Modeling of Polarimetric Reflectance

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Tizian Lucien Zeltner, Xin Tong

Realistic modeling of the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) of scene objects is a vital prerequisite for any type of physically based rendering. In the last decades, the availability of databases containing real-world material measurem ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Slope-Space Integrals for Specular Next Event Estimation

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Tizian Lucien Zeltner, Guillaume Rémi Bruno Loubet

Monte Carlo light transport simulations often lack robustness in scenes containing specular or near-specular materials. Widely used uni- and bidirectional sampling strategies tend to find light paths involving such materials with insufficient probability, ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Progress in modelling fast-ion D-alpha spectra and neutral particle analyzer fluxes using FIDASIM

Alexander Karpushov

FIDASIM is a code that models signals produced by charge-exchange reactions between neutrals and ions (both fast and thermal) in magnetically confined plasmas. With the ion distribution function as input, the code predicts the efflux to a neutral particle ...

2020

A Rendering Solution to Display Light Field in Virtual Reality

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Irene Viola

There is a need for affordable and easily deployable rendering and display solutions to take full advantage of light field imaging. In particular, the research community needs ways to better assess the impact of various light field imaging technologies bas ...

IEEE2018

An Adaptive Parameterization for Efficient Material Acquisition and Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob

One of the key ingredients of any physically based rendering system is a detailed specification characterizing the interaction of light and matter of all materials present in a scene, typically via the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

An Adaptive Parameterization for Efficient Material Acquisition and Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

BRDF acquisition with polarizing filters (2016)

Laurent Valentin Jospin

BRDF (for bidirectional reflectance distribution function) are functions used in computer graphics and optics to describe how an opaque surface reflect the incoming light. The goal of this project is to study technics to separate different components of th ...

2016

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