A Survey on Gradient-Domain Rendering

dc.contributor.authorHua, Binh-Sonen_US
dc.contributor.authorGruson, Adrienen_US
dc.contributor.authorPetitjean, Victoren_US
dc.contributor.authorZwicker, Matthiasen_US
dc.contributor.authorNowrouzezahrai, Dereken_US
dc.contributor.authorEisemann, Elmaren_US
dc.contributor.authorHachisuka, Toshiyaen_US
dc.contributor.editorGiachetti, Andrea and Rushmeyer, Hollyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-05T17:52:03Z
dc.date.available2019-05-05T17:52:03Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractMonte Carlo methods for physically-based light transport simulation are broadly adopted in the feature film production, animation and visual effects industries. These methods, however, often result in noisy images and have slow convergence. As such, improving the convergence of Monte Carlo rendering remains an important open problem. Gradient-domain light transport is a recent family of techniques that can accelerate Monte Carlo rendering by up to an order of magnitude, leveraging a gradient-based estimation and a reformulation of the rendering problem as an image reconstruction. This state of the art report comprehensively frames the fundamentals of gradient-domain rendering, as well as the pragmatic details behind practical gradient-domain uniand bidirectional path tracing and photon density estimation algorithms. Moreover, we discuss the various image reconstruction schemes that are crucial to accurate and stable gradient-domain rendering. Finally, we benchmark various gradient-domain techniques against the state-of-the-art in denoising methods before discussing open problems.en_US
dc.description.documenttypestar
dc.description.number2
dc.description.sectionheadersState of the Art Reports
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume38
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13652
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages455-472
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13652
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13652
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectComputing methodologies
dc.subjectRay tracing
dc.titleA Survey on Gradient-Domain Renderingen_US
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