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ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/2601097.2601203
Keywords
light transport simulation; importance sampling; parametric density estimation; on-line expectation maximization
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- Charles University in Prague, project GA UK [580612]
- Czech Science Foundation [P202-13-26189S]
- [SVV2014260103]
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Monte Carlo techniques for light transport simulation rely on importance sampling when constructing light transport paths. Previous work has shown that suitable sampling distributions can be recovered from particles distributed in the scene prior to rendering. We propose to represent the distributions by a parametric mixture model trained in an on-line (i.e. progressive) manner from a potentially infinite stream of particles. This enables recovering good sampling distributions in scenes with complex lighting, where the necessary number of particles may exceed available memory. Using these distributions for sampling scattering directions and light emission significantly improves the performance of state-of-the-art light transport simulation algorithms when dealing with complex lighting.
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