Adaptive importance sampling for multi-ray gathering

  • Authors:
  • Ivan Neulander

  • Affiliations:
  • Rhythm & Hues Studios

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Talks
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present an adaptive noise reduction technique for integrating incident radiance at a fixed position. We use a Russian-roulette-based importance sampler to reshape the directional probability density of future rays in a batch, based on an affinity map that incorporates ratings of evaluated rays, provided by the rendering engine. Our method is unbiased, has low overhead, requires no precomputation, and works in concert with other importance sampling schemes.