Robust light transport simulation in participating media

• Thesis title in Czech: Robust light transport simulation in participating media
• Thesis title in English: Robust light transport simulation in participating media
• Key words: computer graphics, light transport simulation, image synthesis, rendering, participating media, photon beams, beam radiance estimate, bidirectional path tracing, multiple importance sampling, combining estimators.
• English key words: computer graphics, light transport simulation, image synthesis, rendering, participating media, photon beams, beam radiance estimate, bidirectional path tracing, multiple importance sampling, combining estimators.
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2013/2014
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Software and Computer Science Education (32-KSVI)
• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Jaroslav Křivánek, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 23.04.2014
• Date of assignment: 23.04.2014
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 25.04.2014
• Date and time of defence: 03.02.2015 11:00
• Date of electronic submission: 05.12.2014
• Date of submission of printed version: 05.12.2014
• Date of proceeded defence: 03.02.2015
• Opponents: doc. Alexander Wilkie, Dr.

Guidelines

The task of this diploma thesis is to implement a robust algorithm for light transport simulation in participating media. The goal of the algorithm is to enable rendering of media with highly varying optical properties, such as the optical density, albedo, or scattering anisotropy. To achieve the robustness, combine the existing volumetric radiance estimators using multiple importance sampling. The resulting algorithm should be thoroughly tested and compared to the existing approaches.

References

Pharr, Humphreys: Physically Based Rendering, Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd edition, 2010.