Photon mapping is widely used for global illumi- nation rendering because of its high computational efficiency. But its efficiency is still limited, mainly by the intensive sam- piing required in final gathering, a pr...Photon mapping is widely used for global illumi- nation rendering because of its high computational efficiency. But its efficiency is still limited, mainly by the intensive sam- piing required in final gathering, a process that is critical for removing low frequency artifacts of density estimation. In this paper, we propose a method to predict the final gather- ing estimation with direct density estimation, thereby achiev- ing high quality global illumination by photon mapping with high efficiency. We first sample the irradiance of a subset of shading points by both final gathering and direct radiance es- timation. Then we use the samples as a training set to predict the final gathered irradiance of other shading points through regression. Consequently, we are able to achieve about three times overall speedup compared with straightforward final gathering in global illumination computation with the same rendering quality.展开更多
Photon mapping can simulate some special effects efficiently such as shadows and caustics. Photon mapping runs in two phases： the photon map generating phase and the radiance estimation phase. In this paper, we focus...Photon mapping can simulate some special effects efficiently such as shadows and caustics. Photon mapping runs in two phases： the photon map generating phase and the radiance estimation phase. In this paper, we focus on the bandwidth selection process in the second phase, as it can affect the final quality significantly. Poor results with noise arise if few photons are collected, while bias appears if a large number of photons are collected. In order to solve this issue, we propose an adaptive radiance estimation solution to obtain trade-offs between noise and bias by changing the number of neighboring photons and the shape of the collected area according to the radiance gradient. Our approach can be applied in both the direct and the indirect illumination computation. Finally, experimental results show that our approach can produce smoother quality while keeping the high frequency features perfectly compared with the original photon mapping algorithm.展开更多
文摘Photon mapping is widely used for global illumi- nation rendering because of its high computational efficiency. But its efficiency is still limited, mainly by the intensive sam- piing required in final gathering, a process that is critical for removing low frequency artifacts of density estimation. In this paper, we propose a method to predict the final gather- ing estimation with direct density estimation, thereby achiev- ing high quality global illumination by photon mapping with high efficiency. We first sample the irradiance of a subset of shading points by both final gathering and direct radiance es- timation. Then we use the samples as a training set to predict the final gathered irradiance of other shading points through regression. Consequently, we are able to achieve about three times overall speedup compared with straightforward final gathering in global illumination computation with the same rendering quality.
基金This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61472224 and 61472225, the National High Technology Research and Development 863 Program of China under Grant No. 2012AAOIA306, the Special Funding of Independent Innovation and Transformation of Achievements in Shandong Province of China under Grant No. 2014ZZCX08201, Shandong Key Research and Development Program under Grant No, 2015GGX106006, Young Scholars Program of Shandong University under Grant No. 2015WLJH41, and the Special Funds of Taishan Scholar Construction Project.
文摘Photon mapping can simulate some special effects efficiently such as shadows and caustics. Photon mapping runs in two phases： the photon map generating phase and the radiance estimation phase. In this paper, we focus on the bandwidth selection process in the second phase, as it can affect the final quality significantly. Poor results with noise arise if few photons are collected, while bias appears if a large number of photons are collected. In order to solve this issue, we propose an adaptive radiance estimation solution to obtain trade-offs between noise and bias by changing the number of neighboring photons and the shape of the collected area according to the radiance gradient. Our approach can be applied in both the direct and the indirect illumination computation. Finally, experimental results show that our approach can produce smoother quality while keeping the high frequency features perfectly compared with the original photon mapping algorithm.
