“Towards Accelerating Polarization Path tracing of Multi-Bounce Smith Microfacet BSDFs” by Ohba, Yatagawa and Morishima – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Towards Accelerating Polarization Path tracing of Multi-Bounce Smith Microfacet BSDFs” by Ohba, Yatagawa and Morishima

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    Towards Accelerating Polarization Path tracing of Multi-Bounce Smith Microfacet BSDFs

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    Rendering

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    This paper proposes a polarization path tracing method that incorporates multiple microfacet reflections and introduces an approximation potentially enabling computationally efficient rendering. INVITED TO THE FIRST ROUND OF THE STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION

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    [1] E. Heitz, J. Hanika, E. d’Eon, and C. Dachsbacher. 2016. Multiple-scattering microfacet BSDFs with the Smith model. ACM Transactions on Graphics 35, 4 (2016), 1–14.
    [2] Ryota Maeda and Shinsaku Hiura. 2024. Polarimetric Light Transport Analysis for Specular Inter-Reflection. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging 10 (2024), 876–887.
    [3] A. Wilkie and A. Weidlich. 2012. Polarised light in computer graphics. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Courses(SA ’12). 1–87.

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