Advances in Monte Carlo Rendering
The Legacy of Jaroslav Křivánek
The Legacy of Jaroslav Křivánek
Jaroslav Křivánek has been an outstanding and highly respected researcher of the rendering community who passed away far ahead of time. Through his numerous contributions to light transport simulation he managed to profoundly influence an entire domain of academia and industry.
In this course, we will recap many important contributions of Jaroslav's career, underlining their practicality and pointing out how they all were consequent steps to finding the "one" robust light transport simulation algorithm that would efficiently render any given scene. Rarely has a single person had such an impact, and the authors believe it is worth remembering and continuing his legacy.
Abstract
Presentations (see the revised course notes, the complete recording on Youtube, and Iliyan's page)
Introduction (Alexander Keller, NVIDIA, Organizer)
Irradiance and radiance caching (Pascal Gautron, NVIDIA)
Sampling paths (Iliyan Georgiev, Autodesk)
Zero-variance walks (Eugene d’Eon, NVIDIA)
Path guiding (Jiří Vorba, Weta Digital)
Direct lighting (Petr Vévoda, Charles University Prague)
Multiple importance sampling (Pascal Grittmann, Saarland University and Ivo Kondapaneni, Charles University Prague)
Markov chain methods (Martin Šik, Chaos Czech)
Previous SIGGRAPH Courses organized by Alexander Keller