SIGGRAPH '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Radiosity and realistic image synthesis
Radiosity and realistic image synthesis
SIGGRAPH '93 Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A framework for the analysis of error in global illumination algorithms
SIGGRAPH '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Inverse global illumination: recovering reflectance models of real scenes from photographs
Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A signal-processing framework for inverse rendering
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Relighting with 4D incident light fields
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers
Inverse rendering for computer graphics
Inverse rendering for computer graphics
Robust monte carlo methods for light transport simulation
Robust monte carlo methods for light transport simulation
A Projector-Camera System with Real-Time Photometric Adaptation for Dynamic Environments
CVPR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Volume 1 - Volume 01
ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers
A Theory of Inverse Light Transport
ICCV '05 Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
Compensating Indirect Scattering for Immersive and Semi-Immersive Projection Displays
VR '06 Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Virtual Reality
A compact factored representation of heterogeneous subsurface scattering
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers
Fast separation of direct and global components of a scene using high frequency illumination
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers
Analytical compensation of inter-reflection for pattern projection
Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
Radiometric Compensation through Inverse Light Transport
PG '07 Proceedings of the 15th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
Symmetric photography: exploiting data-sparseness in reflectance fields
EGSR'06 Proceedings of the 17th Eurographics conference on Rendering Techniques
Optical computing for fast light transport analysis
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 papers
Illumination decomposition for material recoloring with consistent interreflections
ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 papers
Single view reflectance capture using multiplexed scattering and time-of-flight imaging
Proceedings of the 2011 SIGGRAPH Asia Conference
From the Rendering Equation to Stratified Light Transport Inversion
International Journal of Computer Vision
Primal-dual coding to probe light transport
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - SIGGRAPH 2012 Conference Proceedings
A Combined Theory of Defocused Illumination and Global Light Transport
International Journal of Computer Vision
Perceptual global illumination cancellation in complex projection environments
EGSR'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-second Eurographics conference on Rendering
Perceptual radiometric compensation for inter-reflection in immersive projection environment
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Decomposing Global Light Transport Using Time of Flight Imaging
International Journal of Computer Vision
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Inverse light transport seeks to undo global illumination effects, such as interreflections, that pervade images of most scenes. This paper presents the theoretical and computational foundations for inverse light transport as a dual of forward rendering. Mathematically, this duality is established through the existence of underlying Neumann series expansions. Physically, we show that each term of our inverse series cancels an interreflection bounce, just as the forward series adds them. While the convergence properties of the forward series are well-known, we show that the oscillatory convergence of the inverse series leads to more interesting conditions on material reflectance. Conceptually, the inverse problem requires the inversion of a large transport matrix, which is impractical for realistic resolutions. A natural consequence of our theoretical framework is a suite of fast computational algorithms for light transport inversion - analogous to finite element radiosity, Monte Carlo and wavelet-based methods in forward rendering - that rely at most on matrix-vector multiplications. We demonstrate two practical applications, namely, separation of individual bounces of the light transport and fast projector radiometric compensation to display images free of global illumination artifacts in real-world environments.