Wenzel Jakob
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Faculty
Other Affiliation(s):
- Cornell University
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich
Location:
- Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Confederation
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2015
Wenzel Jakob is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich in the Institute for Visual Computing. He obtained his PhD in 2013 under the supervision of Dr. Steve Marschner at Cornell University and conducted his undergraduate studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Wenzel’s experience includes research and development work at Disney Research Zurich and Weta Digital, and he is the lead developer of Mitsuba, a research-oriented open source rendering system that has become a popular research platform in rendering and appearance modeling.
SIGGRAPH 2012
Wenzel Jakob is a 4th year Ph.D. student at Cornell University advised by Dr. Steve Marschner. His research interests focus on robust bidirectional light transport algorithms, volumetric light transport and material appearance modeling. He is the designer of Mitsuba, a research-oriented rendering system.
Award(s):
Learning Presentation(s):

Type: [Technical Papers]
Image-Based Acquisition and Modeling of Polarimetric Reflectance Presenter(s): [Baek] [Zeltner] [Ku] [Hwang] [Tong] [Jakob] [Kim]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]

Type: [Courses]
Physics-Based Differentiable Rendering: From Theory to Implementation Organizer(s): [Zhao]
Presenter(s): [Jakob] [Li]
Entry No.: [11]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Radiative backpropagation: an adjoint method for lightning-fast differentiable rendering Presenter(s): [Nimier-David] [Speierer] [Ruiz] [Jakob]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Specular Manifold Sampling for Rendering High-frequency Caustics and Glints Presenter(s): [Zeltner] [Georgiev] [Jakob]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]

Type: [Technical Papers]
A learned shape-adaptive subsurface scattering model Presenter(s): [Vicini] [Koltun] [Jakob]
[SIGGRAPH 2019]

Type: [Courses]
PathTracing in Production Part 2 Organizer(s): [Fascione] [Hanika]
Presenter(s): [Fascione] [Hanika] [Jakob] [Weidlich] [Pieké] [Tang] [Beddini]
Entry No.: [20]
[SIGGRAPH 2019]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Reversible Jump Metropolis Light Transport Using Inverse Mappings Presenter(s): [Bitterli] [Jakob] [Novák] [Jarosz]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
The layer laboratory: a calculus for additive and subtractive composition of anisotropic surface reflectance Presenter(s): [Zeltner] [Jakob]
Entry No.: [74]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Field-aligned online surface reconstruction Presenter(s): [Schertler] [Tarini] [Jakob] [Kazhdan] [Gumhold] [Panozzo]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Robust hex-dominant mesh generation using field-guided polyhedral agglomeration Presenter(s): [Gao] [Jakob] [Tarini] [Panozzo]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]

Type: [Courses]
Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice Organizer(s): [McAuley]
Presenter(s): [McAuley] [Hill] [Jakob] [Hoffman] [Neubelt] [Pettineo] [Pesce] [Iwanicki] [Chan] [Burley] [Fascione]
Entry No.: [15]
[SIGGRAPH 2015]

Type: [Technical Papers]
A comprehensive framework for rendering layered materials Presenter(s): [Jakob] [d’Eon] [Jakob] [Marschner]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Discrete stochastic microfacet models Presenter(s): [Jakob] [Marschner] [Yan] [Hasan] [Ramamoorthi] [Lawrence]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Rendering glints on high-resolution normal-mapped specular surfaces Presenter(s): [Yan] [Hasan] [Jakob] [Lawrence] [Marschner] [Ramamoorthi]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]
Learning Moderator Presentation(s):

Type: [Technical Papers]
Bayesian online regression for adaptive direct illumination sampling Presenter(s): [Vévoda] [Kondapaneni] [Křivánek]
Entry No.: [125]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Deep image-based relighting from optimal sparse samples Presenter(s): [Xu] [Sunkavalli] [Hadap] [Ramamoorthi]
Entry No.: [126]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Denoising with kernel prediction and asymmetric loss functions Presenter(s): [Vogels] [Rousselle] [Mcwilliams] [Rothlin] [Harvill] [Adler] [Meyer] [Novák]
Entry No.: [124]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]