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Sequential Monte Carlo Instant Radiosity

Hedman, P; Karras, T; Lehtinen, J; (2017) Sequential Monte Carlo Instant Radiosity. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , 23 (5) pp. 1442-1453. 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2676089. Green open access

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Abstract

Instant Radiosity and its derivatives are interactive methods for efficiently estimating global (indirect) illumination. They represent the last indirect bounce of illumination before the camera as the composite radiance field emitted by a set of virtual point light sources (VPLs). In complex scenes, current algorithms suffer from a difficult combination of two issues: it remains a challenge to distribute VPLs in a manner that simultaneously gives a high-quality indirect illumination solution for each frame, and to do so in a temporally coherent manner. We address both issues by building, and maintaining overtime, an adaptive and temporally coherent distribution of VPLs in locations where they bring indirect light to the image. We introduce a novel heuristic sampling method that strives to only move as few of the VPLs between frames as possible. The result is, to the best of our knowledge, the first interactive global illumination algorithm that works in complex, highly-occluded scenes, suffers little from temporal flickering, supports moving cameras and light sources, and is output-sensitive in the sense that it places VPLs in locations that matter most to the final result.

Type: Article
Title: Sequential Monte Carlo Instant Radiosity
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2676089
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2676089
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10057492
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