A radiosity method for non-diffuse environments
SIGGRAPH '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
SIGGRAPH '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A two-pass solution to the rendering equation: A synthesis of ray tracing and radiosity methods
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A general two-pass method integrating specular and diffuse reflection
SIGGRAPH '89 Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Adaptive radiosity textures for bidirectional ray tracing
SIGGRAPH '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A progressive multi-pass method for global illumination
Proceedings of the 18th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The RADIANCE lighting simulation and rendering system
SIGGRAPH '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Optimally combining sampling techniques for Monte Carlo rendering
SIGGRAPH '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Efficient simulation of light transport in scenes with participating media using photon maps
Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A ray tracing solution for diffuse interreflection
SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Rendering with mental ray
Realistic image synthesis using photon mapping
Realistic image synthesis using photon mapping
Photographic tone reproduction for digital images
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Interactive global illumination using selective photon tracing
EGRW '02 Proceedings of the 13th Eurographics workshop on Rendering
Metropolis Light Transport for Participating Media
Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques 2000
Density Control for Photon Maps
Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques 2000
Robust monte carlo methods for light transport simulation
Robust monte carlo methods for light transport simulation
Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation
Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation
Joint Bayesian model selection and estimation of noisy sinusoidsvia reversible jump MCMC
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Adjoints and importance in rendering: an overview
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Virtual spherical lights for many-light rendering of glossy scenes
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 papers
Autonomous Lighting Agents in Photon Mapping
ISVC '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing: Part II
Robust adaptive photon tracing using photon path visibility
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Light transport simulation with vertex connection and merging
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012
Improved stochastic progressive photon mapping with metropolis sampling
EGSR'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-second Eurographics conference on Rendering
Photorealistic image rendering with population monte carlo energy redistribution
EGSR'07 Proceedings of the 18th Eurographics conference on Rendering Techniques
Sequential sampling for dynamic environment map illumination
EGSR'06 Proceedings of the 17th Eurographics conference on Rendering Techniques
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We present Metropolis Photon Sampling (MPS), a visual importance-driven algorithm for populating photon maps. Photon Mapping and other particle tracing algorithms fail if the photons are poorly distributed. Our approach samples light transport paths that join a light to the eye, which accounts for the viewer in the sampling process and provides information to improve photon storage. Paths are sampled with a Metropolis-Hastings algorithm that exploits coherence among important light paths. We also present a technique for including user selected paths in the sampling process without introducing bias. This allows a user to provide hints about important paths or reduce variance in specific parts of the image. We demonstrate MPS with a range of scenes and show quantitative improvements in error over standard Photon Mapping and Metropolis Light Transport.