Advanced (Quasi-) Monte Carlo Methods for Image Synthesis

Instructors

• Alexander Keller, NVIDIA Corporation
• Simon Premože
• Matthias Raab, NVIDIA Corporation
• Leonhard Gruenschloss, Weta Digital

Syllabus

• Syllabus

Presentations

• Introduction
• Variance Reduction
• Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Photorealistic Image Synthesis
• Bidirectional Path Tracing
• Metropolis Light Transport

Course Notes

• Variance Reduction, Bidirectional Path Tracing, Metropolis Light Transport (preliminary version, last changed August 13, 2012)
• Quasi-Monte Carlo Image Synthesis in a Nutshell (in J. Dick, F. Kuo, G. Peters, and I. Sloan (eds.), Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2012, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. The original publication will be available at www.springerlink.com.)