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Wenzel Alban Jakob

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Neural BTF Compression and Interpolation

Wenzel Alban Jakob

The Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF) is a data-driven solution to render materials with complex appearance. A typical capture contains tens of thousands of images of a material sample under varying viewing and lighting conditions. While capable of fait ...

WILEY2019

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

We present a versatile computational framework for modeling the reflective and transmissive properties of arbitrarily layered anisotropic material structures. Given a set of input layers, our model synthesizes an effective BSDF of the entire structure, whi ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Geometric Tools for Exploring Manifolds of Light Transport Paths

Wenzel Alban Jakob

Photorealistic images created using physical simulations of light have become a ubiquitous element of our everyday lives. The most successful techniques for producing such images replicate the key physical phenomena in a detailed software simulation, inclu ...

ACM2015

Anisotropic Gaussian Mutations for Metropolis Light Transport Through Hessian-Hamiltonian Dynamics

Wenzel Alban Jakob

The simulation of light transport in the presence of multi-bounce glossy effects and motion is challenging because the integrand is high dimensional and areas of high-contribution tend to be narrow and hard to sample. We present a Markov Chain Monte Carlo ...

ACM2015

Path-space Motion Estimation and Decomposition for Robust Animation Filtering

Wenzel Alban Jakob

Renderings of animation sequences with physics-based Monte Carlo light transport simulations are exceedingly costly to generate frame-by-frame, yet much of this computation is highly redundant due to the strong coherence in space, time and among samples. A ...

Eurographics Association2015

Instant Field-aligned Meshes

Wenzel Alban Jakob

We present a novel approach to remesh a surface into an isotropic triangular or quad-dominant mesh using a unified local smoothing operator that optimizes both the edge orientations and vertex positions in the output mesh. Our algorithm produces meshes wit ...

ACM2015

Rendering Glints on High-resolution Normal-mapped Specular Surfaces

Wenzel Alban Jakob

Complex specular surfaces under sharp point lighting show a fascinating glinty appearance, but rendering it is an unsolved problem. Using Monte Carlo pixel sampling for this purpose is impractical: the energy is concentrated in tiny highlights that take up ...

ACM2014

A Comprehensive Framework for Rendering Layered Materials

Wenzel Alban Jakob

We present a general and practical method for computing BSDFs of layered materials. Its ingredients are transport-theoretical models of isotropic or anisotropic scattering layers and smooth or rough boundaries of conductors and dielectrics. Following expan ...

ACM2014