Simultaneously achieving 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis for indoor environments has widespread applications but is technically very challenging. State-of-the-art methods based on implicit neural functions can achieve excellent 3D ...

3D textured face reconstruction from sketches applicable in many scenarios such as animation, 3D avatars, artistic design, missing people search, etc., is a highly promising but underdeveloped research topic. On the one hand, the stylistic diversity of ...

A concurrent binary tree (CBT) is a GPU-friendly data-structure suitable for the generation of bisection based terrain tessellations, i.e., adaptive triangulations over square domains. In this paper, we expand the benefits of this data-structure in two ...

We propose a generalization of the rendering equation that captures both the realistic light transport of physically-based rendering (PBR) and a subset of non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) stylizations in a principled manner. The proposed formulation is ...

TMNT Mutant Mayhem (2023) represented a great challenge artistically and technically. The director aimed for a look that would give the illusion that each frame would be hand-crafted 2D concept art. To break away from a digital or procedural feeling, we ...

Rendering close-shore water oceanic phenomena, e.g. rolling waves, for real-time applications is a challenging problem, especially in a massive open-world game where variability, artistic control and performance are crucial. While using a form of ...

We ported the Sony Pictures Imageworks version of the Arnold Renderer to the GPU using NVIDIA’s OptiX ray tracing toolkit. This required modifying algorithms to run efficiently on the GPU, the use of new software methodologies to better share source ...

Stochastic sampling techniques are ubiquitous in real-time rendering, where performance constraints force the use of low sample counts, leading to noisy intermediate results. To remove this noise, the post-processing step of temporal and spatial ...

This paper presents GSCore, a hardware acceleration unit that efficiently executes the rendering pipeline of 3D Gaussian Splatting with algorithmic optimizations. GSCore builds on the observations from an in-depth analysis of Gaussian-based radiance ...

Real-Time rendering is the technique which allows us to have graphical applications in our everyday life, whether it is a 3D game or a tool with graphical user interface. Nowadays graphics rendering is handled by the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) ...

We present a system that automatically brings street view imagery to life by populating it with naturally behaving, animated pedestrians and vehicles. Our approach is to remove existing people and vehicles from the input image, insert moving objects ...

The workload of real-time rendering is steeply increasing as the demand for high resolution, high refresh rates, and high realism rises, overwhelming most graphics cards. To mitigate this problem, one of the most popular solutions is to render images at ...

Estimation of glossy reflections remains a challenging topic for real-time renderers. Ray tracing is a robust solution for evaluating the specular lobe of a given BRDF; however, it is computationally expensive and introduces noise that requires ...

Robust and accurate camera pose estimation is fundamental in computer vision. Learning-based regression approaches acquire six-degree-of-freedom camera parameters accurately from visual cues of an input image. However, most are trained on street-view and ...

In this presentation, we survey modern discrepancy metrics and use them to estimate the quality of point sets produced from a variety of sample generators in two dimensions. Then, we calculate the actual performance of these point sets for integrating ...

Virtual Reality (VR) systems rely on established real-time rendering techniques to uphold a strict performance budget of a few milliseconds per frame. The utilized techniques are based on approximations that trade speed-up for the correctness of the ...

The city of ‘Chronopolis’ served as the setting for the entire 3rd act of the movie ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’. As Kang’s stronghold, Chronopolis is a futuristic metropolis that blends functional, militaristic fortification with disordered, ...

Imaging vector fields has applications in science, art, image processing and special effects. An effective new approach is to use linear and curvilinear filtering techniques to locally blur textures along a vector field. This approach builds on several ...

We present a new, real-time method for rendering diffuse and glossy objects in low-frequency lighting environments that captures soft shadows, interreflections, and caustics. As a preprocess, a novel global transport simulator creates functions over the ...

This paper presents a new method for computing global illumination in scenes with participating media. The method is based on bidirectional Monte Carlo ray tracing and uses photon maps to increase efficiency and reduce noise. We remove previous ...