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We propose an image warping-based remote rendering technique for volumes that decouples the rendering and display phases. Our work builds on prior work that samples the volume on the client using ray casting and reconstructs a z-value based…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Stefan Zellmann

We propose a programming technology that bridges cross-platform compatibility and hardware acceleration in ray tracing applications. Our methodology enables developers to define algorithms while our translator manages implementation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Vladimir Frolov , Vadim Sanzharov , Garifullin Albert , Maxim Raenchuk , Alexei Voloboy

High-performance implementations of $k$-Nearest Neighbor Search ($k$NN) in low dimensions use tree-based data structures. Tree algorithms are hard to parallelize on GPUs due to their irregularity. However, newer Nvidia GPUs offer hardware…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Durga Mandarapu , Vani Nagarajan , Artem Pelenitsyn , Milind Kulkarni

Ray tracing is an efficient channel modeling method. However, the traditional ray tracing method has high computation complexity. To solve this problem, an improved bounding volume hierarchies (BVH) algorithm is proposed in this paper.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Chen Wang , Yinghua Wang , Yuxiao Li , Jialing Huang , Jie Huang , Cheng-Xiang Wang

Ray tracing is a widely used technique for modeling optical systems, involving sequential surface-by-surface computations, which can be computationally intensive. We propose Ray2Ray, a novel method that leverages implicit neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shiva Sinaei , Chuanjun Zheng , Kaan Akşit , Daisuke Iwai

Direct volume rendering using ray-casting is widely used in practice. By using GPUs and applying acceleration techniques as empty space skipping, high frame rates are possible on modern hardware. This enables performance-critical use-cases…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Michael Rauter , Lukas Zimmermann , Markus Zeilinger

We present a new numerical scheme to solve the transfer of diffuse radiation on three-dimensional mesh grids which is efficient on processors with highly parallel architecture such as recently popular GPUs and CPUs with multi- and many-core…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Satoshi Tanaka , Kohji Yoshikawa , Takashi Okamoto , Kenji Hasegawa

In this paper, we address the problem of efficient point searching and sampling for volume neural rendering. Within this realm, two typical approaches are employed: rasterization and ray tracing. The rasterization-based methods enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Jiahao Ma , Miaomiao Liu , David Ahmedt-Aristizaba , Chuong Nguyen

3D Gaussian splatting has been widely adopted as a 3D representation for novel-view synthesis, relighting, and 3D generation tasks. It delivers realistic and detailed results through a collection of explicit 3D Gaussian primitives, each…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xin Sun , Iliyan Georgiev , Yun Fei , Miloš Hašan

In recent years, applications such as real-time simulations, autonomous systems, and video games increasingly demand the processing of complex geometric models under stringent time constraints. Traditional geometric algorithms, including…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Roberto Carrasco , Enzo Meneses , Hector Ferrada , Cristobal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld

3D object proposals, quickly detected regions in a 3D scene that likely contain an object of interest, are an effective approach to improve the computational efficiency and accuracy of the object detection framework. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Ramanpreet Singh Pahwa , Tian Tsong Ng , Minh N. Do

Over the last decade, advances in GPU hardware have been driven in large part by the demands of real-time graphics, culminating in dedicated hardware ray tracing cores (RT cores). These units accelerate ray scene intersection queries…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Rafael Padilla , Kyle Webster , Austin Kim

Differentiable rendering methods promise the ability to optimize various parameters of 3d scenes to achieve a desired result. However, lighting design has so far received little attention in this field. In this paper, we introduce a method…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Lukas Lipp , David Hahn , Pierre Ecormier-Nocca , Florian Rist , Michael Wimmer

Ray tracing (RT) simulation is a widely used approach to enable modeling wireless channels in applications such as network digital twins. However, the computational cost to execute ray tracing (RT) is proportional to factors such as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Cláudio Modesto , Lucas Mozart , Pedro Batista , André Cavalcante , Aldebaro Klautau

Radiance fields have revolutionized photo-realistic 3D scene visualization by enabling high-fidelity reconstruction of complex environments, making them an ideal match for light field displays. However, integrating these technologies…

Scientific optical 3D modeling requires the possibility to implement highly flexible and customizable mathematical models as well as high computing power. However, established ray tracing software for optical design and modeling purposes…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Andrej Keksel , Samuel Schmidt , Dietrich Beck , Jörg Seewig

In this paper, we study the problem of continuous 3D shape representations. The majority of existing successful methods are coordinate-based implicit neural representations. However, they are inefficient to render novel views or recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhuoman Liu , Bo Yang , Yan Luximon , Ajay Kumar , Jinxi Li

We present an algorithm for creating an n-level ray-space hierarchy (RSH) of coherent rays that runs on the GPU. Our algorithm uses rasterization to process the primary rays, then uses those results as the inputs for a RSH, that processes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Nuno Reis , Vasco Costa , João M. Pereira

Significance: Monte Carlo (MC) methods are the gold-standard for modeling light-tissue interactions due to their accuracy. Mesh-based MC (MMC) offers enhanced precision for complex tissue structures using tetrahedral mesh models. Despite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shijie Yan , Douglas Dwyer , David R. Kaeli , Qianqian Fang

The ray-tracing is often employed in urban areas for channel modeling with high accuracy but encounters a substantial computational complexity for high mobility scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel pre-processing method for dynamic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Songjiang Yang , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Yinghua Wang , Jie Huang , Yuyang Zhou , el-Hadi M. Aggoune