Awesome Light Transport
Awesome Light TransportA collection of resources on light transport, mainly focus on codes (official or reproduce)
2021
SIGGRAPH
A Generic Framework for Physical Light Transport
Shlomi Steinberg, Lingqi Yan
SIGGRAPH 2021. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
BRDF Importance Sampling for Polygonal Lights
Christoph Peters
SIGGRAPH 2021. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
A Non-Exponential Transmittance Model for Volumetric Scene Representations
Delio Vicini, Wenzel Jakob, Anton Kaplanyan
SIGGRAPH 2021. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
Primary-Space Adaptive Control Variates using Piecewise-Polynomial Approximations
Miguel Crespo, Adrian Jarabo, Adolfo Muñoz
SIGGRAPH 2021. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
EG
Correlation-aware multiple importance sampling for bidirectional rendering algorithms
Pascal Grittmann, Iliyan Georgiev, Philipp Slusallek
EG 2021. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
2020
SIGGRAPH
Radiative Backpropagation: An Adjoint Method for Lightning-Fast Differentiable Rendering
Merlin Nimier-David, Sébastien Speierer, Benoît Ruiz, Wenzel Jakob
SIGGRAPH 2020. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code] [Unofficial Simple Implementation]
Specular Manifold Sampling for Rendering High-Frequency Caustics and Glints
Tizian Zeltner, Iliyan Georgiev, Wenzel Jakob
SIGGRAPH 2020. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
Delayed Rejection Metropolis Light Transport
Damien Rioux-Lavoie, Joey Litalien, Adrien Gruson, Toshiya Hachisuka, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
SIGGRAPH 2020. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
Langevin Monte Carlo Rendering with
Gradient-based Adaptation
Fujun Luan, Shuang Zhao, Kavita Bala, Ioannis Gkioulekas
SIGGRAPH 2020. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
Path-Space Differentiable Rendering
Cheng Zhang, Bailey Miller, Kai Yan, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Shuang Zhao
SIGGRAPH 2020. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official CPU Code] [Official GPU Code]
Robust Fitting of Parallax-Aware Mixtures for Path Guiding
Lukas Ruppert, Sebastian Herholz, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
SIGGRAPH 2020. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
Resampling-aware Weighting Functions for Bidirectional Path Tracing Using Multiple Light Sub-Paths
Kosuke Nabata, Kei Iwasaki, Yoshinori Dobashi
SIGGRAPH 2020. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Simple Code]
Variance-Aware Path Guiding
Alexander Rath, Pascal Grittmann, Sebastian Herholz, Petr Vevoda, Philipp Slusallek, Jaroslav Krivanek
SIGGRAPH 2020. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
SIGGRAPH Asia
CPPM: Chi-squared Progressive Photon Mapping
Zehui Lin, Sheng Li, Xinlu Zeng, Congyi Zhang, Jinzhu Jia, Guoping Wang, Dinesh Manocha
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
Path Tracing Estimators for Refractive Radiative Transfer
Adithya Pediredla, Yasin Karimi Chalmiani, Matteo Giuseppe Scopelliti, Maysam Chamanzar, Srinivasa Narasimhan, Ioannis Gkioulekas
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
EG
Stratified Markov Chain Monte Carlo Light Transport
Adrien Gruson, Rex West, Toshiya Hachisuka
EG 2020. [Paper] [Official Code in Mitsuba] [Official Code in Rust] [Unoffcial Code]
2019
SIGGRAPH
A null-scattering path integral formulation of light transport
Bailey Miller, Iliyan Georgiev, Wojciech Jarosz
SIGGRAPH 2019. [Project Website] [Paper] [Code]
SIGGRAPH Asia
Integral formulations of volumetric transmittance
Iliyan Georgiev, Zackary Misso, Toshiya Hachisuka, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Jaroslav Křivánek, Wojciech Jarosz
SIGGRAPH 2019. [Project Website] [Paper] [Code]
Variance-Aware Multiple Importance Sampling
Pascal Grittmann, Iliyan Georgiev, Philipp Slusallek, Jaroslav Křivánek
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]
2018
SIGGRAPH Asia
A radiative transfer framework for non-exponential media
Benedikt Bitterli Srinath Ravichandran Thomas Müller Magnus Wrenninge Jan Novák Steve Marschner Wojciech Jarosz
SIGGRAPH Asia 2018. [Project Website] [Paper] [Official Code]