Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations 2015

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https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/12636
Darmstadt, Germany, June 23–26, 2015
Full Papers (CGF34-4)
Preface and Table of Contents
Shadows
Practical Shading of Height Fields and Meshes using Spherical Harmonic Exponentiation
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Aude Giraud and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
Material Appearance
Practical Rendering of Thin Layered Materials with Extended Microfacet Normal Distributions
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Jie Guo, Jinghui Qian, and Jingui Pan
MatCap Decomposition for Dynamic Appearance Manipulation
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Carlos Jorge Zubiaga, Adolfo Muñoz, Laurent Belcour, Carles Bosch, and Pascal Barla
Ray Tracing
Efficient Visibility Heuristics for kd-trees Using the RTSAH
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Matthias Moulin, Niels Billen, and Philip Dutré
GPU-based Out-of-Core HLBVH Construction
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Mahmoud Zeidan, Taymoor Nazmy, and Mostafa Aref
Apex Point Map for Constant-Time Bounding Plane Approximation
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Samuli Laine and Tero Karras
MBVH Child Node Sorting for Fast Occlusion Test
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Shinji Ogaki and Alexandre Derouet-Jourdan
Light Paths
Gradient-Domain Bidirectional Path Tracing
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Marco Manzi, Markus Kettunen, Miika Aittala, Jaakko Lehtinen, Frédo Durand, and Matthias Zwicker
Exposure and Video
Color Clipping and Over-exposure Correction
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Mekides Assefa Abebe, Tania Pouli, Jonathan Kervec, and Chaker Larabi
Real-time Rendering and Filtering
Interactive Global Illumination Effects Using Deterministically Directed Layered Depth Maps
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Frederik Peter Aalund, Jeppe Revall Frisvad, and Jakob Andreas Bærentzen
High Performance Non-linear Motion Blur
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Jean-Philippe Guertin and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
Filtering Environment Illumination for Interactive Physically-Based Rendering in Mixed Reality
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Soham Uday Mehta, Kihwan Kim, Dawid Pajak, Kari Pulli, Jan Kautz, and Ravi Ramamoorthi
Perception and Simplification
Stereo from Shading
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Alexandre Chapiro, Carol O'Sullivan, Wojciech Jarosz, Markus Gross, and Aljoscha Smolic

BibTeX (Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations 2015)
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151161,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
Practical Shading of Height Fields and Meshes using Spherical Harmonic Exponentiation}},

author = {
Giraud, Aude
 and 
Nowrouzezahrai, Derek
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151161}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151162,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
Practical Rendering of Thin Layered Materials with Extended Microfacet Normal Distributions}},

author = {
Guo, Jie
 and 
Qian, Jinghui
 and 
Pan, Jingui
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151162}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151163,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
MatCap Decomposition for Dynamic Appearance Manipulation}},

author = {
Zubiaga, Carlos Jorge
 and 
Muñoz, Adolfo
 and 
Belcour, Laurent
 and 
Bosch, Carles
 and 
Barla, Pascal
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151163}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151165,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
GPU-based Out-of-Core HLBVH Construction}},

author = {
Zeidan, Mahmoud
 and 
Nazmy, Taymoor
 and 
Aref, Mostafa
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151165}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151164,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
Efficient Visibility Heuristics for kd-trees Using the RTSAH}},

author = {
Moulin, Matthias
 and 
Billen, Niels
 and 
Dutré, Philip
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151164}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151166,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
Apex Point Map for Constant-Time Bounding Plane Approximation}},

author = {
Laine, Samuli
 and 
Karras, Tero
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151166}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151167,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
MBVH Child Node Sorting for Fast Occlusion Test}},

author = {
Ogaki, Shinji
 and 
Derouet-Jourdan, Alexandre
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151167}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151168,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
Gradient-Domain Bidirectional Path Tracing}},

author = {
Manzi, Marco
 and 
Kettunen, Markus
 and 
Aittala, Miika
 and 
Lehtinen, Jaakko
 and 
Durand, Frédo
 and 
Zwicker, Matthias
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151168}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151169,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
Color Clipping and Over-exposure Correction}},

author = {
Abebe, Mekides Assefa
 and 
Pouli, Tania
 and 
Kervec, Jonathan
 and 
Larabi, Chaker
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151169}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151170,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
Interactive Global Illumination Effects Using Deterministically Directed Layered Depth Maps}},

author = {
Aalund, Frederik Peter
 and 
Frisvad, Jeppe Revall
 and 
Bærentzen, Jakob Andreas
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151170}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151171,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
High Performance Non-linear Motion Blur}},

author = {
Guertin, Jean-Philippe
 and 
Nowrouzezahrai, Derek
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151171}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151172,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
Filtering Environment Illumination for Interactive Physically-Based Rendering in Mixed Reality}},

author = {
Mehta, Soham Uday
 and 
Kim, Kihwan
 and 
Pajak, Dawid
 and 
Pulli, Kari
 and 
Kautz, Jan
 and 
Ramamoorthi, Ravi
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151172}

}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:sre.20151173,

booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas & Implementations},

editor = {
Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
},
title = {{
Stereo from Shading}},

author = {
Chapiro, Alexandre
 and 
O'Sullivan, Carol
 and 
Jarosz, Wojciech
 and 
Gross, Markus
 and 
Smolic, Aljoscha
},
year = {
2015},

publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},


DOI = {
10.2312/sre.20151173}

}

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    Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Experimental Ideas and Implementations
    (Eurographics Association, 2015) Lehtinen, Jaakko; Nowrouzezahrai, Derek; -
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    Practical Shading of Height Fields and Meshes using Spherical Harmonic Exponentiation
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Giraud, Aude; Nowrouzezahrai, Derek; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Interactively computing smooth shading effects from environmental lighting, such as soft shadows and glossy reflections, is a challenge in scenes with dynamic objects. We present a method to efficiently approximate these effects in scenes comprising animating objects and dynamic height fields, additionally allowing interactive manipulation of view and lighting. Our method extends spherical harmonic (SH) exponentiation approaches to support environmental shadowing from both dynamic blockers and dynamic height field geometry. We also derive analytic expressions for the view-evaluated BRDF, directly in the log-SH space, in order to support diffuse-to-glossy shadowed reflections while avoiding expensive basis-space product operations. We illustrate interactive rendering results using a hybrid, multi-resolution screen- and object-space visibility-marching algorithm that decouples geometric complexity from shading complexity.
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    Practical Rendering of Thin Layered Materials with Extended Microfacet Normal Distributions
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Guo, Jie; Qian, Jinghui; Pan, Jingui; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    We propose a practical reflectance model for rendering thin transparent layers with different sides varying in roughness and levels of gloss. To capture the effect of subsurface reflection, previous methods rely on importance sampling for each light-surface interaction. This soon becomes a computationally demanding task since a recursive sampling scheme is required to handle multiple internal reflections. In this paper, we first provide a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the directional distribution of scattered light and the roughness of each layer boundary using joint spherical warping. Based on the analysis, we generalize the traditional microfacet theory for layered materials and introduce the extended normal distribution function (ENDF) to accurately model the behavior of subsurface reflection. With the ENDF, the number of sampling processes can be reduced to only once for each bounce of subsurface reflection. We demonstrate that our BSDF model based on the ENDF is easy to be implemented on top of Monte Carlo sampling based offline renderers and it incurs little computational overhead. Moreover, it can be also efficiently used in real-time applications with the help of GPU acceleration.
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    MatCap Decomposition for Dynamic Appearance Manipulation
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Zubiaga, Carlos Jorge; Muñoz, Adolfo; Belcour, Laurent; Bosch, Carles; Barla, Pascal; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    In sculpting software, MatCaps (a shorthand for "Material Capture") are often used by artists as a simple and efficient way to design appearance. Similar to LitSpheres, they convey material appearance into a single image of a sphere, which can be easily transferred to an individual 3D object. Their main purpose is to capture plausible material appearance without having to specify lighting and material separately. However, this also restricts their usability, since material or lighting cannot later be modified independently. Manipulations as simple as rotating lighting with respect to the view are not possible. In this paper, we show how to decompose a MatCap into a new representation that permits dynamic appearance manipulation. We consider that the material of the depicted sphere act as a filter in the image, and we introduce an algorithm that estimates a few relevant filter parameters interactively.We show that these parameters are sufficient to convert the input MatCap into our new representation, which affords real-time appearance manipulations through simple image re-filtering operations. This includes lighting rotations, the painting of additional reflections, material variations, selective color changes and silhouette effects that mimic Fresnel or asperity scattering.
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    GPU-based Out-of-Core HLBVH Construction
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Zeidan, Mahmoud; Nazmy, Taymoor; Aref, Mostafa; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Recently the GPU has been used extensively in building indexing structures for moderately complex scenes that fit inside the GPU core. However, only few methods have been developed for constructing indexing structures for massive models larger than GPU memory. In this paper, we present an out-of-core HLBVH algorithm, a new method for constructing spatial hierarchies suitable for massive models that cannot fit into GPU device memory. A key insight of our method is how to bring and process out-of-core data blocks that do not fit into available device memory. Results show that our approach can compete with HLBVH hierarchy builder for large models on CPU. We also demonstrate the value of our algorithms in a GPU-based out-of-core path tracer that brings tree nodes and geometry into GPU core as needed, and efficiently achieve complex global illumination effects for models up to hundred million triangles.
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    Efficient Visibility Heuristics for kd-trees Using the RTSAH
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Moulin, Matthias; Billen, Niels; Dutré, Philip; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Acceleration data structures such as kd-trees aim at reducing the per-ray cost which is crucial for rendering performance. The de-facto standard for constructing kd-trees, the Surface Area Heuristic (SAH), does not take ray termination into account and instead assumes rays never hit a geometric primitive. The Ray Termination Surface Area Heuristic (RTSAH) is a cost metric originally used for determining the traversal order of the voxels for occlusion rays that takes ray termination into account. We adapt this RTSAH to building kd-trees that aim at reducing the per-ray cost of rays. Our build procedure has the same overall computational complexity and considers the same finite set of splitting planes as the SAH. By taking ray termination into account, we favor cutting off child voxels which are not or hardly visible to each other. This results in fundamentally different and more qualitative kd-trees compared to the SAH.
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    Apex Point Map for Constant-Time Bounding Plane Approximation
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Laine, Samuli; Karras, Tero; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    We introduce apex point map, a simple data structure for constructing conservative bounds for rigid objects. The data structure is distilled from a dense k-DOP, and can be queried in constant time to determine a tight bounding plane with any given normal vector. Both precalculation and lookup can be implemented very efficiently on current GPUs. Applications include, e.g., finding tight world-space bounds for transformed meshes, determining perobject shadow map extents, more accurate view frustum culling, and collision detection.
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    MBVH Child Node Sorting for Fast Occlusion Test
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Ogaki, Shinji; Derouet-Jourdan, Alexandre; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Optimal BVH layout differs among ray types. To accelerate shadow rays, the use of a specialized traversal order, optionally with an additional data structure has been proposed. In this paper we show how sorting child nodes of MBVH (Multi Bounding Volume Hierarchy) improves the performance of occlusion test without changing the topology of the data structure.We introduce a cost metric suitable for MBVH which takes into account the distribution of representative rays, and prove that the cost can be minimized by sorting child nodes based on a very simple criterion. Our method is very easy to implement and requires only small amounts of storage and preprocessing time for sorting. We also demonstrate how rendering performance can be improved by up to 10% in conjunction with various algorithms.
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    Gradient-Domain Bidirectional Path Tracing
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Manzi, Marco; Kettunen, Markus; Aittala, Miika; Lehtinen, Jaakko; Durand, Frédo; Zwicker, Matthias; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Gradient-domain path tracing has recently been introduced as an efficient realistic image synthesis algorithm. This paper introduces a bidirectional gradient-domain sampler that outperforms traditional bidirectional path tracing often by a factor of two to five in terms of squared error at equal render time. It also improves over unidirectional gradient-domain path tracing in challenging visibility conditions, similarly to how conventional bidirectional path tracing improves over its unidirectional counterpart. Our algorithm leverages a novel multiple importance sampling technique and an efficient implementation of a high-quality shift mapping suitable for bidirectional path tracing. We demonstrate the versatility of our approach in several challenging light transport scenarios.
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    Color Clipping and Over-exposure Correction
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Abebe, Mekides Assefa; Pouli, Tania; Kervec, Jonathan; Larabi, Chaker; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Limitations of the camera or extreme contrast in scenes can lead to clipped areas in captured images. Irrespective of the cause, color clipping and over-exposure lead to loss of texture and detail, impacting the color appearance and visual quality of the image. We propose a new over-exposure and clipping correction method, which relies on the existing correlation between RGB channels of color images to recover clipped information. Using a novel region grouping approach, clipped regions are coherently treated both spatially and temporally. To reconstruct over-exposed areas where all channels are clipped we employ a brightness profile reshaping scheme, which aims to preserve the appearance of highlights, while boosting local brightness. Our method is evaluated using objective metrics as well as a subjective study based on an ITU standardized protocol, showing that our correction leads to improved results compared to previous related techniques. We explore several potential applications of our method, including extending to video as well as using it as a preprocessing step prior to inverse tone mapping.
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    Interactive Global Illumination Effects Using Deterministically Directed Layered Depth Maps
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Aalund, Frederik Peter; Frisvad, Jeppe Revall; Bærentzen, Jakob Andreas; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    A layered depth map is an extension of the well-known depth map used in rasterization. Multiple layered depth maps can be used as a coarse scene representation. We develop two global illumination methods which use said scene representation. The first is an interactive ambient occlusion method. The second is an interactive singlebounce indirect lighting method based on photon differentials. All of this is implemented in a rasterization-based pipeline.
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    High Performance Non-linear Motion Blur
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Guertin, Jean-Philippe; Nowrouzezahrai, Derek; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Motion blur is becoming more common in interactive applications such as games and previsualization tools. Here, a common strategy is to approximate motion blur with an image-space post-process, and many recent approaches demonstrate very efficient and high-quality results [Sou13,GMN14]. Unfortunately, all such approaches assume underlying linear motion, and so they cannot approximate non-linear motion blur effects without significant visual artifacts.We present a new motion blur post-process that correctly treats the case of non-linear motion (in addition to linear motion) using an efficient curve-sampling scatter approach. We simulate plausible non-linear motion blur in 4ms at 1920 1080 and our approach has many desirable properties: its cost is independent of geometric complexity, it robustly estimates blurring extents to avoid typical over- and under-blurring artifacts, it supports unlimited motion magnitudes, and it is less noisy than existing techniques.
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    Filtering Environment Illumination for Interactive Physically-Based Rendering in Mixed Reality
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Mehta, Soham Uday; Kim, Kihwan; Pajak, Dawid; Pulli, Kari; Kautz, Jan; Ramamoorthi, Ravi; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Physically correct rendering of environment illumination has been a long-standing challenge in interactive graphics, since Monte-Carlo ray-tracing requires thousands of rays per pixel. We propose accurate filtering of a noisy Monte-Carlo image using Fourier analysis. Our novel analysis extends previous works by showing that the shape of illumination spectra is not always a line or wedge, as in previous approximations, but rather an ellipsoid. Our primary contribution is an axis-aligned filtering scheme that preserves the frequency content of the illumination. We also propose a novel application of our technique to mixed reality scenes, in which virtual objects are inserted into a real video stream so as to become indistinguishable from the real objects. The virtual objects must be shaded with the real lighting conditions, and the mutual illumination between real and virtual objects must also be determined. For this, we demonstrate a novel two-mode path tracing approach that allows ray-tracing a scene with image-based real geometry and mesh-based virtual geometry. Finally, we are able to de-noise a sparsely sampled image and render physically correct mixed reality scenes at over 5 fps on the GPU.
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    Stereo from Shading
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Chapiro, Alexandre; O'Sullivan, Carol; Jarosz, Wojciech; Gross, Markus; Smolic, Aljoscha; Jaakko Lehtinen and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    We present a new method for creating and enhancing the stereoscopic 3D (S3D) sensation without using the parallax disparity between an image pair. S3D relies on a combination of cues to generate a feeling of depth, but only a few of these cues can easily be modified within a rendering pipeline without significantly changing the content. We explore one such cue-shading stereopsis-which to date has not been exploited for 3D rendering. By changing only the shading of objects between the left and right eye renders, we generate a noticeable increase in perceived depth. This effect can be used to create depth when applied to flat images, and to enhance depth when applied to shallow depth S3D images. Our method modifies the shading normals of objects or materials, such that it can be flexibly and selectively applied in complex scenes with arbitrary numbers and types of lights and indirect illumination. Our results show examples of rendered stills and video, as well as live action footage.