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2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Importance Resampling for Global Illumination
This paper develops importance resampling into a variance reduction technique for Monte Carlo integration. Importance resampling is a sample generation technique that can be used ...
Justin Talbot, David Cline, Parris K. Egbert
RT
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Real-Time Multiple Scattering in Participating Media with Illumination Networks
This paper proposes a real-time method to compute multiple scattering in non-homogeneous participating media having general phase functions. The volume represented by a particle s...
László Szirmay-Kalos, Mateu Sbert, T...
RT
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Experimental Analysis of BRDF Models
The Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) describes the appearance of a material by its interaction with light at a surface point. A variety of analytical models...
Addy Ngan, Frédo Durand, Wojciech Matusik
RT
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Table-top Computed Lighting for Practical Digital Photography
We apply simplified image-based lighting methods to reduce the equipment, cost, time, and specialized skills required for high-quality photographic lighting of desktop-sized stat...
Ankit Mohan, Jack Tumblin, Bobby Bodenheimer, Cind...
RT
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Hybrid Monte Carlo Method for Accurate and Efficient Subsurface Scattering
Hongsong Li, Fabio Pellacini, Kenneth E. Torrance
RT
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Estimation of 3D Faces and Illumination from Single Photographs Using A Bilinear Illumination Model
3D Face modeling is still one of the biggest challenges in computer graphics. In this paper we present a novel framework that acquires the 3D shape, texture, pose and illumination...
Jinho Lee, Hanspeter Pfister, Baback Moghaddam, Ra...
RT
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Numerical Cumulative Distribution Functions for Efficient Importance Sampling
Jason Lawrence, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Ravi Ramamoor...
RT
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Perceptually Based Tone Mapping of High Dynamic Range Image Streams
This paper presents a new perceptually based tone mapping operator that represents scene visibility under timevarying, high dynamic range conditions. The operator is based on a ne...
Piti Irawan, James A. Ferwerda, Stephen R. Marschn...
RT
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Frameless Rendering
We propose an adaptive form of frameless rendering with the potential to dramatically increase rendering speed over conventional interactive rendering approaches. Without the rigi...
Abhinav Dayal, Cliff Woolley, Benjamin Watson, Dav...