Deep adaptive sampling and reconstruction using analytic distributions

F Salehi, M Manzi, G Roethlin, R Weber… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We propose an adaptive sampling and reconstruction method for offline Monte Carlo
rendering. Our method produces sampling maps constrained by a user-defined budget that …

Neural partitioning pyramids for denoising monte carlo renderings

M Balint, K Wolski, K Myszkowski, HP Seidel… - ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent advancements in hardware-accelerated raytracing made it possible to achieve
interactive framerates even for algorithms previously considered offline, such as path …

Empowering convolutional neural nets with metasin activation

F Salehi, T Aydin, A Gaillard… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
ReLU networks have remained the default choice for models in the area of image prediction
despite their well-established spectral bias towards learning low frequencies faster, and …

Automatic feature selection for denoising volumetric renderings

X Zhang, M Ott, M Manzi, M Gross… - Computer Graphics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a method for constructing feature sets that significantly improve the quality of
neural denoisers for Monte Carlo renderings with volumetric content. Starting from a large …

Neural Denoising for Deep‐Z Monte Carlo Renderings

X Zhang, G Röthlin, S Zhu, TO Aydın… - Computer Graphics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We present a kernel‐predicting neural denoising method for path‐traced deep‐Z images
that facilitates their usage in animation and visual effects production. Deep‐Z images …

Joint self-attention for denoising Monte Carlo rendering

G Oh, B Moon - The Visual Computer, 2024 - Springer
Image-space denoising of rendered images has become a commonly adopted approach
since this post-rendering process often drastically reduces required sample counts (thus …

Deep Compositional Denoising on Frame Sequences

X Zhang, G Röthlin, M Manzi… - Eurographics …, 2023 - research-collection.ethz.ch
We propose a novel extension for processing frame sequences that provides context from
neighboring frames while avoiding redundant computation and a novel quantization …

An improved monte carlo denoising algorithm based on kernel-predicting convolutional network

J Liu, F Zuo, G Wang - … Conference on Web Information Systems and …, 2022 - Springer
Monte Carlo (MC) path tracing renders images with severe noise under one-sample-per-
pixel conditions, and one of the challenges of denoising is to achieve high rendering quality …

[PDF][PDF] Empowering convolutional neural networks with MetaSin activation

F Salehi, TO Aydın, A Gaillard… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - researchgate.net
RELU networks have remained the default choice for models in the area of image prediction
despite their well-established spectral bias towards learning low frequencies faster, and …

Robust Average Networks for Monte Carlo Denoising

J Kalojanov, K Thurston - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.04080, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present a method for converting denoising neural networks from spatial into spatio-
temporal ones by modifying the network architecture and loss function. We insert Robust …