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We propose a path-guiding algorithm to be incorporated into the wavefront style of path tracers (WFPTs). As WFPTs are primarily implemented on graphics processing units (GPUs), the proposed method aims to leverage the capabilities of the…
Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of high-quality global illumination at a heavy computational cost. Because of the high computation…
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…
Penetration depth calculation quantifies the extent of overlap between two objects and is crucial in fields like simulations, the metaverse, and robotics. Recognizing its significance, efforts have been made to accelerate this computation…
We study ray reordering as a tool for increasing the performance of existing GPU ray tracing implementations. We focus on ray reordering that is fully agnostic to the particular trace kernel. We summarize the existing methods for computing…
General Purpose computing on Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU) has resulted in unprecedented levels of speedup over its CPU counterparts, allowing programmers to harness the computational power of GPU shader cores to accelerate other…
This work presents a web-based, open-source path tracer for rendering physically-based 3D scenes using WebGPU and the OpenPBR surface shading model. While rasterization has been the dominant real-time rendering technique on the web since…
Ray tracing (RT) is a 3D graphics technique that offers highly realistic visuals. It is becoming prominent and accessible as GPU vendors have integrated dedicated ray tracing acceleration hardware. However, tracing millions of rays through…
We investigate the concept of rendering production-style content with full path tracing in a data-distributed fashion -- that is, with multiple collaborating nodes and/or GPUs that each store only part of the model. In particular, we…
We introduce GRay, a massively parallel integrator designed to trace the trajectories of billions of photons in a curved spacetime. This GPU-based integrator employs the stream processing paradigm, is implemented in CUDA C/C++, and runs on…
We present a fast, differentiable, GPU-accelerated optimization method for ray path tracing in environments containing planar reflectors and straight diffraction edges. Based on Fermat's principle, our approach reformulates the path-finding…
Inverse rendering seeks to estimate scene characteristics from a set of data images. The dominant approach is based on differential rendering using Monte-Carlo. Algorithms as such usually rely on a forward model and use an iterative…
Neural ray tracing (RT) has emerged as a promising paradigm for channel modeling by combining physical propagation principles with neural networks. It enables high modeling accuracy and efficiency. However, current neural RT methods face…
A recent trend in real-time rendering is the utilization of the new hardware ray tracing capabilities. Often, usage of a distance field representation is proposed as an alternative when hardware ray tracing is deemed too costly, and the two…
Ray tracing algorithm is a category of rendering algorithms that calculate the color of pixels by simulating the physical movements of a huge amount of rays and calculating their energies, which can be implemented in parallel. Meanwhile,…
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…
Particle-based representations of radiance fields such as 3D Gaussian Splatting have found great success for reconstructing and re-rendering of complex scenes. Most existing methods render particles via rasterization, projecting them to…
Ray tracing has long been the holy grail of real time rendering. This technique, commonly used for photo realism, simulates the physical behavior of light, at the cost of being computationally heavy. With the introduction of Nvidia RTX…
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…
Recent research on ray tracing cores has explored repurposing these cores to solve non-graphical problems by reformulating them as geometric queries, leveraging the inherent parallelism of ray tracing. Although successful in specific cases,…