As scenes become ever more complex and real-time applications embrace ray tracing, path
sampling algorithms that maximize quality at low sample counts become vital. Recent …

Photorealistic rendering of the virtual world is an important and classic problem in the field of
computer graphics. With the development of GPU hardware and continuous research on …

The continuous advancement of photorealism in rendering is accompanied by a growth in
texture data and, consequently, increasing storage and memory demands. To address this …

Volume rendering under complex, dynamic lighting is challenging, especially if targeting
real-time. To address this challenge, we extend a recent direct illumination sampling …

Grid-free Monte Carlo methods based on the walk on spheres (WoS) algorithm solve
fundamental partial differential equations (PDEs) like the Poisson equation without …

Recently, great progress has been made in physics-based differentiable rendering. Existing
differentiable rendering techniques typically focus on static scenes, but during inverse …

Monte Carlo rendering algorithms often utilize correlations between pixels to improve
efficiency and enhance image quality. For real-time applications in particular, repeated …

Grid-free Monte Carlo methods such as walk on spheres can be used to solve elliptic partial
differential equations without mesh generation or global solves. However, such methods …

In cloud-based gaming and virtual reality (G&VR) scene content is rendered in a cloud
server and streamed as low-latency encoded video to the client device. In this context …

Path-traced global illumination of scenes with complex lighting remains particularly
challenging at real-time framerates. Reservoir-based resampling methods for light sampling …