News
Two of our papers were conditionally accepted to EG 2019: A Low-Dimensional Function Space for Efficient Spectral Upsampling by Wenzel Jakob and Johannes Hanika, and Neural BTF Compression and Interpolation by Gilles Rainer, Wenzel Jakob, Abhijeet Ghosh, and Tim Weyrich.
We've created an interactive webpage that provides access to a comprehensive material database acquired as part of the project An Adaptive Parameterization for Efficient Material Acquisition and Rendering by Jonathan Dupuy and Wenzel Jakob.
Guillaume Loubet joined RGL today with a prestigious EPFL-INRIA postdoc fellowship. Welcome, Guillaume!
We've just released a free online edition of the Physically Based Rendering book! It features hyperlinked cross-referencing, beautiful SVG figures and equations as well as interactive image comparisons. The details of how all of this came to be are explained in the preface to the online edition.
Jonathan Dupuy's and Wenzel Jakob's project on adaptive parameterizations for material acquisition and rendering was conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2018. More details will be posted on the project site in the coming weeks.
Hannes Hergeth won this year's Advanced Computer Graphics (CS440) competition with a beautiful rendering of a terrarium. Congratulation, Hannes! See all submissions on this page.
Tizian Zeltner and Wenzel Jakob's project on modeling and rendering anisotropic layers was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2018. Get it here!
Wenzel Jakob will present some of RGL's ongoing work on material modeling at FMX 2018.
EDIC Fellows Merlin Nimier-David and Delio Vicini join RGL for semester projects.
Since version 10.2, Modo uses our Instant Meshes algorithm to implement its automatic retopology feature! The Foundry just released an interview with Wenzel Jakob (PDF) about this technique and other recent projects in this area.
David Körner, PhD student at VISUS Stuttgart, is joining RGL for project this Summer & Fall. Welcome, David!
Wenzel Jakob will give a keynote talk at EPFL's 2017 Research Day Frontiers of Visual Computing on June 8.
This semester, a new version of the course CS 440: Advanced Computer Graphics is offered for the first time.
The third edition of Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation by Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys is hot off the press and should be available in stores mid-November. Elsevier and Amazon's stores have digital PDF & Kindle editions that are available as of now.
Chaos Group has released a new version of their V-Ray renderer, which for the first time includes a Stochastic Microflake reflectance model for rendering glitter and sparkle effects. Their algorithm is based on the paper Discrete Stochastic Microfacet Models by Wenzel Jakob, Miloš Hašan, Ling-Qi Yan, Jason Lawrence, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Steve Marschner.
The course CS 328: Numerical Methods for Visual Computing is offered for the first time.
Call for presentations: please get in touch to present in the Fall 2016 edition of the Visual Computing Seminar.
EDIC Fellows Tizian Zeltner, Michalina Pacholska, and Andreas Finke join RGL for semester projects.
Wenzel Jakob receives the Eurographics Young Researcher Award.
Wenzel Jakob joins EPFL's School of Computer and Communication Sciences as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor.