Publications related to Render farm

Efficient and Accurate Physically-Based Differentiable Rendering

Physically-based rendering algorithms generate photorealistic images of virtual scenes. By simulating light paths in a scene, complex physical effects such as shadows, reflections and volumetric scattering can be reproduced. Over the last decade, physicall ...

EPFL2022

Unified Neural Encoding of BTFs

Wenzel Alban Jakob

Realistic rendering using discrete reflectance measurements is challenging, because arbitrary directions on the light and view hemispheres are queried at render time, incurring large memory requirements and the need for interpolation. This explains the des ...

WILEY2020

Radiative Backpropagation: An Adjoint Method for Lightning-Fast Differentiable Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Sébastien Nicolas Speierer, Merlin Eléazar Nimier-David

Physically based differentiable rendering has recently evolved into a powerful tool for solving inverse problems involving light. Methods in this area perform a differentiable simulation of the physical process of light transport and scattering to estimate ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Reparameterizing Discontinuous Integrands for Differentiable Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Guillaume Rémi Bruno Loubet

Differentiable rendering has recently opened the door to a number of challenging inverse problems involving photorealistic images, such as computational material design and scattering-aware reconstruction of geometry and materials from photographs. Differe ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Influence of Subjective Impressions of a Space on Brightness Satisfaction: an Experimental Study in Virtual Reality

Kynthia Chamilothori

This paper investigates the relationship between participants’ satisfaction with brightnessand other key perceptual attributesof the sceneto gain insight in howuser satisfaction with brightnessis influencedby factorsother than brightness levels. In this st ...

2019

An in-depth analysis of single-image subjective quality assessment of light field contents

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

Quality assessment of light field images poses new questions and challenges, due to the enriched nature of the content and the possibilities it offers at the rendering step. Image-based rendering is conventionally used to showcase the increased capabilitie ...

2019

Neural BTF Compression and Interpolation

Wenzel Alban Jakob

The Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF) is a data-driven solution to render materials with complex appearance. A typical capture contains tens of thousands of images of a material sample under varying viewing and lighting conditions. While capable of fait ...

WILEY2019

Evaluation of a Hyperspectral Image Database for Demosaicking Purposes

Sabine Süsstrunk

We present a study on the the applicability of hyperspectral images to evaluate color filter array (CFA) design and the performance of demosaicking algorithms. The aim is to simulate a typical digital still camera processing pipe-line and to compare two di ...

SPIE2011

Reputation-based Estimation of Individual Performance in Collaborative and Competitive Grids

Hidden information is a critical issue for the successful delivery of services in grid systems. It arises when the agents (hardware and software resources) employed to serve a task belong to multiple administrative domains, thus rendering monitoring of rem ...

Elsevier2010

Fast Structure from Motion for Planar Image Sequences

Pierre Vandergheynst, Luigi Bagnato, Andreas Weishaupt

Dense three-dimensional reconstruction of a scene from images is a challenging task. Usually, it is achieved by finding correspondences in successive images and computing the distance by means of epipolar geometry. In this paper, we propose a variational f ...

2010

Mental vision : a computer graphics platform for virtual reality, science and education

Achille Peternier

Despite the wide amount of computer graphics frameworks and solutions available for virtual reality, it is still difficult to find a perfect one fitting at the same time the many constraints of research and educational contexts. Advanced functionalities an ...

EPFL2009

The Mental Vision framework - A platform for teaching, practicing and researching with computer graphics and virtual reality

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Achille Peternier

Despite the wide amount of computer graphics frameworks and solutions available, it is still difficult to find a perfect one fitting at the same time many constraints, like pedagogical intents and user-friendliness or speed with high rendering quality and ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2008

Tone Mapping For High Dynamic Range Displays

Sabine Süsstrunk, Laurence Meylan

We address the problem of re-rendering images to high dynamic range (HDR) displays, which were originally tone-mapped to standard displays. As these new HDR displays have a much larger dynamic range than standard displays, an image rendered to standard mon ...

2007

Augmenting Deformable Objects in Real-Time

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Julien Pilet

We present a real-time system that can draw virtual patterns or images on deforming real objects by estimating both the deformations and the shading parameters. We show that this is what is required to render the virtual elements so that they blend convinc ...

2005