Publications related to Ray casting

Content-Preserving Unpaired Translation from Simulated to Realistic Ultrasound Images

Interactive simulation of ultrasound imaging greatly facilitates sonography training. Although ray-tracing based methods have shown promising results, obtaining realistic images requires substantial modeling effort and manual parameter tuning. In addition, ...

Springer2021

A Correlation-Based Electromagnetic Time Reversal Technique to Locate Indoor Transient Radiation Sources

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Zhaoyang Wang, Qi Li

To overcome the multipath interference in locating transient electromagnetic (EM) radiation sources in an indoor environment, we propose a criterion that calculates the correlation between back-propagated signals from observation points, to be used in EM t ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Better Patch Stitching for Parametric Surface Reconstruction

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Jan Bednarík, Zhantao Deng

Recently, parametric mappings have emerged as highly effective surface representations, yielding low reconstruction error. In particular, the latest works represent the target shape as an atlas of multiple mappings, which can closely encode object parts. A ...

IEEE2020

Evaluation of the ray-casting analytical algorithm for pencil beam scanning proton therapy

Ye Zhang, Sojin Shim

For pencil beam scanned (PBS) proton therapy, analytical dose calculation engines are still typically used for the optimisation process, and often for the final evaluation of the plan. Recently however, the suitability of analytical calculations for planni ...

2019

A method for voxel ray-casting of scenes on a whole screen

Robin Mange

A method for screen-space voxel ray-casting of scenes on a whole screen. The method comprises providing a graphics card; rendering seamlessly any one of the following list of primitives containing at least polygons, voxels; using a GPU pipeline of the grap ...

2019

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

Automated Daylighting Control System based on Sky Luminance Monitoring and Lighting Computing

Yujie Wu

Sufficient daylight exposure contributes to occupants' productivity and health in buildings. However, excessive daylight ingress induces discomfort glare and increases the cooling load in warm seasons. The performance of manual shading systems is limited b ...

EPFL2019

Holographic Visualisation and Interaction of Fused CT, PET and MRI Volumetric Medical Imaging Data Using Dedicated Remote GPGPU Ray Casting

Patric Hagmann, Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge, Stéphane Gobron

Medical experts commonly use imaging including Computed Tomography (CT), Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for diagnosis or to plan a surgery. These scans give a highly detailed representation of the patient anatomy, b ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

Experimental demonstration of ray-rotation sheets

Toralf Scharf

We have built microstructured sheets that rotate, on transmission, the direction of light rays by an arbitrary, but fixed, angle around the sheet normal. These ray-rotation sheets comprise two pairs of confocal lenticular arrays. In addition to rotating th ...

2018

An embedded system for quasi real-time lighting computation based on sky monitoring

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Yujie Wu

Lighting simulation plays a significant role in the architectural design and evaluation of performance parameters of buildings. The general method of assuming a virtual sky in lighting simulation may lead to mismatch with the real situation, which conventi ...

2017

3D Solid Texture Classification Using Locally-Oriented Wavelet Transforms

Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge

Many image acquisition techniques used in biomedical imaging, material analysis, and structural geology are capable of acquiring 3D solid images. Computational analysis of these images is complex but necessary, since it is difficult for humans to visualize ...

IEEE2017

Using PyMOL as a platform for computational drug design

Shuguang Yuan, Zhenquan Hu

PyMOL, a cross-platform molecular graphics tool, has been widely used for three-dimensional (3D) visualization of proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, electron densities, surfaces, and trajectories. It is also capable of editing molecules, ray tracing ...

Wiley2017

CFSpro: ray tracing for design and optimization of complex fenestration systems using mixed dimensionality approach

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, André Gabriel Kostro, Mario Geiger

Advanced optical ray tracing software, CFSpro, was developed for the study and optimization of complex fenestration systems (CFSs). Using an algorithm mixing 2D and 3D approaches, accurate computation of large numbers of rays in extruded geometries can be ...

Optical Soc Amer2016

Lower hybrid current drive experiments with different launched wave frequencies in the EAST tokamak

Joan Decker, Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Fang Liu, Yong Yang

EAST has been equipped with two high power lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) systems with operating frequencies of 2.45 GHz and 4.6 GHz. Comparative LHCD experiments with the two different frequencies were performed in the same conditions of plasma for the ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Microstructured glazing for daylighting, glare protection, seasonal thermal control and clear view

André Gabriel Kostro

The appropriate choice of glazing in a facade depends on many factors. They include amongst other criteria: location, orientation, climatic condition, energetic efficiency, usage of the building, required user comfort, and the architectural concept. On the ...

EPFL2015

Towards a Disambiguation Canvas

Ronan Boulic, Anderson Maciel

We present Disambiguation canvas, a technique for selection by progressive refinement using a mobile device and consisting of two steps. During the first, the user defines a subset of objects through the orientation sensors of the device and a volume-casti ...

Ieee2013

On Micro Optical Elements for Efficient Light Diffusion

Roland Andreas Bitterli

Efficient light management is one of the key issues in modern energy conversion systems, be it to collect optical power or to redistribute light generated by high power light emitters. This thesis touches mainly on the subject of efficient light redistribu ...

EPFL2013

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

RD optimized auxiliary information for inpainting-based view synthesis

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey

Texture and depth maps of two neighboring camera viewpoints are typically required for synthesis of an intermediate virtual view via depth-image-based rendering (DIBR). However, the bitrate overhead required for reconstruction ofmultiple texture and depth ...

2012

Solar radiation modelling for urban environments

Darren Robinson

In this paper we briefly describe three alternative techniques for modelling solar radiation in the urban context. These include the use of: (i) simple morphological parameters as indicators of radiation availability, (ii) a ray-tracing program in conjunct ...

Université de Technologie Compiègne2010