CS 598 Rendering Seminar

Modules

1. Finite Element Radiosity Methods
   • Importance:
     • B.E. Smits and J.R. Arvo and D.H. Salesin, "An Importance Driven Radiosity Algorithm," SIGGRAPH, 273-282, 1992.
   • Hierarchical Radiosity:
     • P. Hanrahan and D. Salzman and L. Aupperle, "A Rapid Hierarchical Radiosity Algorithm, " SIGGRAPH, 197-206, 1991
   • Discontinuity Meshing:
     • D. Lischinski, F. Tampieri and D.P. Greenberg, "A Discontinuity Meshing Algorithm for Accurate Radiosity," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 12, 6, 25-39, 1992.
   • Smoothness of the Kernel:
     • R. Gershbein and P. Schroder and P. Hanrahan, "Textures and Radiosity: Controlling emission and reflection with texture maps," International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. 51-58, 1994.
     • J. Haddon and D. Forsyth, "Shading primitives: finding folds and shallow grooves," ICCV, 236-241, 1998.
2. Random Sampling Methods
   • Basics
     • Shirley, P., Monte Carlo Methods in Rendering, 1996, originally coursenotes for Advanced Topics in Radiosity, 1994
     • Shirley, P., Wang, C.Y. & Zimmerman, K. Monte Carlo techniques for direct lighting calculations. ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 15 (1996) pp. 1-36.E.
     • E. Lafortune and Y. Willems, "The ambient term as a variance reducing technique for monte carlo ray tracing," in Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, (Darmstadt, Germany), pp. 163--171, June 1994
   • Path tracing
     • Lafortune and Y. D. Willems. Bi-directional path-tracing. In Compugraphics '93, pages 145--153, Alvor, 1993
     • Rasmus Tamstorf and Henrik Wann Jensen: "Adaptive Sampling and Bias Estimation in Path Tracing". In "Rendering Techniques '97". Eds. J. Dorsey and Ph. Slusallek. Springer-Verlag, pp. 285-295, 1997
     • Eric Veach and Leonidas J. Guibas, Metropolis Light Transport, SIGGRAPH 97 Proceedings (August 1997), Addison-Wesley, pp. 65-76.
   • Photon Mapping
     • Henrik Wann Jensen and Niels J¿rgen Christensen: "Photon Maps in Bidirectional Monte Carlo Ray Tracing of Complex Objects". Computers & Graphics vol. 19 (2), pp. 215-224, March 1995
     • Henrik Wann Jensen: "Importance Driven Path Tracing using the Photon Map". In Rendering Techniques '95. Eds. P.M. Hanranhan and W. Purgathofer. Springer-Verlag. pp. 326-335, 1995
     • Ingo Wald and Johannes Gunther and Philipp Slusallek, Balancing Considered Harmful -- Faster Photon Mapping using the Voxel Volume Heuristic, 2004, Computer Graphics Forum , 22, 3, 595-603
     • Johannes Gunther and Ingo Wald and Philipp Slusallek, Realtime Caustics using Distributed Photon Mapping, Rendering Techniques 2004 (Proc Eurographics Symposium on Rendering), 111-121, 2004.
     • Alexander Keller and Ingo Wald. Efficient Importance Sampling Techniques for the Photon Map. In Vision Modelling and Visualization 2000, pages 271--279, November 2000.
3. Participating Media
   • Approximations, and the Zonal Method
     • Reflection from Layered Surfaces due to Subsurface Scattering Pat Hanrahan and Wolfgang Krueger Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 93 Proceedings)
     • Rushmeier, Holly E., and Kenneth E. Torrance. ``The Zonal Method for Calculating Light Intensities in the Presence of a Participatin Medium.'' Computer Graphics 21(5) (July 1987) 293-302.
   • Path tracing and stochastic methods
     • Rendering Participating Media with Bidirectional Path Tracing Eric P. Lafortune, Yves D. WillemsRendering Techniques '96
     • Non-symmetric Scattering in Light Transport Algorithms Reference: Eric Veach, Eurographics Rendering Workshop 1996
     • Monte Carlo Evaluation of Non-Linear Scattering Equations for Subsurface Reflection Matt Pharr and Pat Hanrahan Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2000 Proceedings)
   • Photon Mapping
     • Henrik Wann Jensen, Per H. Christensen, Efficient simulation of light transport in scenes with participating media using photon maps SIGGRAPH, Pages: 311 - 320, 1998
     • Cool Special Case
       • Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers Steve Marschner, Henrik Wann Jensen, Mike Cammarano, Steve Worley, and Pat Hanrahan Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2003 Proceedings)
   • Perceptual Matters
     • Surveys and Overviews
       • McNamara, Ann (2001) Visual Perception in Realistic Image Synthesis. Computer Graphics Forum 20 (4), 211-224.
       • Elements of early vision for computer graphics Ferwerda, J.A. Page(s): 22-33 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Volume: 21 Issue: 5 Date: Sep/Oct 2001
     • Tone Mapping and Associated Issues
       • Tone reproduction for realistic images Tumblin, J.; Rushmeier, H. Page(s): 42-48 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Volume: 13 Issue: 6 Date: Nov 1993
       • Ashikhmin, M. ``A Tone Mapping Algorithm for High Contrast Images'' The proceedings of 13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (2002), Pisa, Italy, pp.145-155.
       • S. M., Khan, S. N. Pattanaik (2004). "Modeling blue shift in moonlit scenes using rod cone interaction", Journal of Vision, 4(8), 316a.
       • S. N. Pattanaik, James A. Ferwerda, Mark D. Fairchild, and Donald P. Greenberg,"A Multiscale Model of Adaptation and Spatial Vision for Realistic Image Display", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'98, pp. 287-298, Orlando, July 1998.
       • James Ferwerda, S.N. Pattanaik, Peter Shirley and Donald P. Greenberg, "A Model of Visual Adaptation for Realistic Image Synthesis", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'96, pp. 249-258, New Orleans, 4-9 August, 1996
       • S. N. Pattanaik, Jack E. Tumblin, Hector Yee, Donald P. Greenberg,"Time-Dependent Visual Adaptation for Realistic Real-Time Image Display", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2000, pp. 47-54, New Orleans, 23-28 July, 2000.
       • Hector Yee, S. N. Pattanaik,"Segmentation and Adaptive Assimilation for Detail-Preserving Display of High-Dynamic Range Images", Visual Computers. Vol 19(7-8), December 2003.
     • Error metrics
       • Mahesh Ramasubramanian, S. N. Pattanaik, Donald P. Greenberg, "A Perceptually Based Physical Error Metric for Realistic Image Synthesis", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'99, pp. 73-82, Los Angeles, 8-13 August 1999
       • Glare
         • Physically-Based Glare Effects for Digital Images. by Spencer, Shirley, Zimmerman, Greenberg. SIGGRAPH 95
         • Compression
           • Reinhard, E., Shirley, P., Ashikhmin, M., Troscianko, T. "Second order image statistics in computer graphics" ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Computer Graphics and Visualization (2004)
           • James Ferwerda, S.N. Pattanaik, Peter Shirley and Donald P. Greenberg,"A Model of Visual Masking for Computer Graphics", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'97, pp. 143-152, Los Angeles, 3-8 August, 1997.