Dev:Source/Render/Cycles/Papers

Interesting Papers

Collection of potentially useful papers.

Adaptive Rendering

• A Novel Adaptive Sampling by Tsallis Entropy
• A Progressive Error Estimation Framework for Photon Density Estimation
• Adaptive Sampling and Bias Estimation in Path Tracing
• New Contrast Measure for Pixel Supersampling
• An Adaptive Sampling Technique for Multidimensional Integration by Ray Tracing
• A Perceptually Based Adaptive Sampling Algorithm
• Entropy-based Adaptive Sampling
• Multidimensional Adaptive Sampling and Reconstruction for Ray Tracing
• Refinement Criteria for Global Illumination using Convex Functions
• Generating Antialiased Images at Low Sampling Densities
• Adaptive Wavelet Rendering

Motion Blur

• Micropolygon Ray Tracing With Defocus and Motion Blur
• Diploma Thesis: Motion Blur

BVH

• Ordered Depth-First Layouts for Ray Tracing
• Faster Incoherent Rays: Multi-BVH Ray Stream Tracing
• Incoherent Ray Tracing on GPU
• HLBVH: Hierarchical LBVH Construction for Real Time Ray Tracing of Dynamic Geometry
• A hybrid CPU-GPU Implementation for Interactive Ray-Tracing of Dynamic Scenes
• Real-Time KD-Tree Construction on Graphics Hardware
• Memory-Scalable GPU Spatial Hierarchy Construction
• Fast Ray Sorting and Breadth-First Packet Traversal for GPU Ray Tracing

Integrators

• Image Synthesis using Adjoint Photons
• Combining Global and Local Virtual Lights for Detailed Glossy Illumination
• Coherent Metropolis Light Transport with Multiple-Try Mutations
• Variance Reduction for Russion roulette
• Bi-directional path tracing
• Reducing the Number of Shadow Rays in Bidirectional Path Tracing
• Progressive Photon Mapping
• Stochastic Progressive Photon Mapping

MLT

• Arbitrary Importance Functions for Metropolis Light Transport
• Sampling methods in ray-based global illumination
• Energy Redistribution Path Tracing
• Acceleration of the Multiple-Try Metropolis using Antithetic and Stratified Sampling
• Metropolis Instant Radiosity
• Metropolis Light Transport
• Photorealistic Image Rendering with Population Monte Carlo Energy Redistribution
• Population Monte Carlo Path Tracing
• Population Monte Carlo Samplers for Rendering
• A Simple and Robust Mutation Strategy for the Metropolis Light Transport Algorithm
• A Variance Analysis of the Metropolis Light Transport Algorithm

Volume rendering

• Unbiased Global Illumination with Participating Media
• Instant Multiple Scattering for Interactive Rendering of Heterogeneous Participating Media
• Radiance Caching for Participating Media

Other

• Photographic Tone Reproduction for Digital Images
• Non-symmetric Scattering in Light Transport Algorithms

Hair

• Light Scattering from Filaments
• Dual Scattering Approximation for Fast Multiple Scattering in Hair
• Photo-Realistic Rendering of Blond Hair
• Rendering Fur with Three Dimensional Textures
• Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers

SSS

• Modeling and Rendering of Weathered Stone
• A Spectral Shading Model for Human Skin
• Acquiring Scattering Properties of Participating Media by Dilution
• Rendering Translucent Materials Using Photon Diffusion
• Monte Carlo Evaluation Of Non-Linear Scattering Equations For Subsurface Reflection
• Light Diffusion in Multi-Layered Translucent Materials
• Implementing a skin BSSRDF (or several...)
• Efficient Rendering of Local Subsurface Scattering
• An Empirical BSSRDF Model
• A Spectral BSSRDF for Shading Human Skin
• A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport
• A Layered, Heterogeneous Reflectance Model for Acquiring and Rendering Human Skin

Micropoly

• DiagSplit: Parallel, Crack-free, Adaptive Tessellation for Micropolygon Rendering
• Approximating Subdivision Surfaces with Gregory Patches for Hardware Tessellation
• Real-Time View-Dependent Rendering of Parametric Surfaces
• Rendering Complex Scenes with Memory-Coherent Ray Tracing
• Direct Ray Tracing of Smoothed and Displacement Mapped Triangles

Used Papers

Publications from which we implement parts:

• Constructing Sobol sequences with better two-dimensional projections (link)
• Diploma Thesis Motion Blur (pdf)
• Ray Tracing Deformable Scenes using Dynamic Bounding Volume Hierarchies (pdf)
• Spatial Splits in Bounding Volume Hierarchies (link)
• Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering (link)
• A Practical Analytic Model for Daylight (link)
• Microfacet Models for Refraction through Rough Surfaces (pdf)
• Predicting Reflectance Functions from Complex Surfaces (link)
• Measuring and Modeling Anisotropic Reflection (link)
• Notes on the Ward BRDF (pdf)
• A Microfacet-based BRDF Generator (link)
• Tracing Ray Differentials (link)
• What is the Space of Camera Response Functions? (link)
• Fast, minimum storage ray-triangle intersection (link)
• Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs (link)
• A Ray Tracing Hardware Architecture for Dynamic Scenes (link)
• Improving Noise (link)
• Texturing and Modelling: A procedural approach