Publications related to Particle system

Dr.Jit: A Just-In-Time Compiler for Differentiable Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Nicolas Julien Roussel, Delio Aleardo Vicini, Sébastien Nicolas Speierer

Dr.Jit is a new just-in-time compiler for physically based rendering and its derivative. Dr.Jit expedites research on these topics in two ways: first, it traces high-level simulation code (e.g., written in Python) and aggressively simplifies and specialize ...

2022

Efficient and Accurate Physically-Based Differentiable Rendering

Delio Aleardo Vicini

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

Unsupervised Visual Entity Abstraction towards 2D and 3D Compositional Models

Beril Besbinar

Object-centric learning has gained significant attention over the last years as it can serve as a powerful tool to analyze complex scenes as a composition of simpler entities. Well-established tasks in computer vision, such as object detection or instance ...

EPFL2022

Differentiable Physically Based Rendering: Algorithms, Systems and Applications

Merlin Eléazar Nimier-David

Physically based rendering methods can create photorealistic images by simulating the propagation and interaction of light in a virtual scene. Given a scene description including the shape of objects, participating media, material properties, etc., the sim ...

EPFL2022

Meshing of Spiny Neuronal Morphologies using Union Operators

Felix Schürmann, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Elvis Boci, Nadir Roman Guerrero, Juan José García Cantero, Alessandro Enrico Foni

Neurons are characterized by thin and long interleaving arborizations in which creating accurate mesh models of their cellular membranes is challenging. While union operators are central for CAD/CAM modeling and computer graphics applications, their applic ...

2022

Gazebo Fluids: SPH-based simulation of fluid interaction with articulated rigid body dynamics

Auke Ijspeert, Jonathan Patrick Arreguit O'Neill, Wei Wang, Emmanouil Angelidis

Physical simulation is an indispensable component of robotics simulation platforms that serves as the basis for a plethora of research directions. Looking strictly at robotics, the common characteristic of the most popular physics engines, such as ODE, DAR ...

IEEE2022

Light Path Gradients for Forward and Inverse Rendering

Tizian Lucien Zeltner

Physically based rendering is a process for photorealistic digital image synthesis and one of the core problems in computer graphics. It involves simulating the light transport, i.e. the emission, propagation, and scattering of light through a virtual scen ...

EPFL2021

Generating High Fidelity Surface Meshes of Neocortical Neurons using Skin Modifiers

Felix Schürmann, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Juan Bautista Hernando Vieites, Cyrille Pierre Henri Favreau, Samuel Lieven D. Lapere

We present the results of exploring the capabilities of skinning modifiers to generate high fidelity polygonal surface meshes of neurons from their morphological skeletons that are segmented from optical microscopy slides. Our algorithm is implemented in B ...

2019

An Adaptive Parameterization for Efficient Material Acquisition and Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob

One of the key ingredients of any physically based rendering system is a detailed specification characterizing the interaction of light and matter of all materials present in a scene, typically via the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

An Adaptive Parameterization for Efficient Material Acquisition and Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob

One of the key ingredients of any physically based rendering system is a detailed specification characterizing the interaction of light and matter of all materials present in a scene, typically via the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Mechanical form-finding of timber fabric structures

Seyed Sina Nabaei

How about fastening a knot? not with ropes... but with timber panels. Timber Fabric Structures (TFS) originate from such an inspiration. An architectural reinterpretation of fabric techniques (mainly braiding) using building scale timber panels to design ...

EPFL2014

Parallel Rendering on Hybrid Multi-GPU Clusters

Achieving efﬁcient scalable parallel rendering for interactive visualization applications on medium-sized graphics clusters remains a challenging problem. Framerates of up to 60hz require a carefully designed and ﬁne-tuned parallel rendering implementation ...

The Eurographics Association2012

Micromechanical parameters in bonded particle method for modelling of brittle material failure

Jian Zhao, Tohid Kazerani

Bonded particle modelling (BPM) is nowadays being extensively used for simulating brittle material failure. In BPM, material is modelled as a dense assemblage of particles (grains) connected together by contacts (cement). This sort of modelling seriously d ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Robust Duplicate Detection of 2D and 3D Objects

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda

In this paper, we analyze our graph-based approach for 2D and 3D object duplicate detection in still images. A graph model is used to represent the 3D spatial information of the object based on the features extracted from training images so that an explici ...

2010

3D Object Duplicate Detection for Video Retrieval

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda

Content-based video retrieval has become a very active research area in the last decade due to the increasing number of video shared on social networks such as YouTube and Daily-Motion. While most of the content-based video retrieval approaches employ visu ...

2010

Real-time motion planning, navigation, and behavior for large crowds of virtual humans

Barbara Yersin

Simulating crowds in real time is a challenging problem that touches many different aspects of Computer Graphics: rendering, animation, path planning, behavior, etc. Our work has mainly focused on two particular aspects of real-time crowds: motion planning ...

EPFL2009

Rendering massive real-time crowds

Pablo Stanislaw De Heras Ciechomski

This thesis presents how to visualize a large crowd of virtual human characters in real time on a standard issue personal computer. The virtual humans are distributed into rendering fidelities such that the humans closer to the viewer are detailed and expr ...

EPFL2006