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Wenzel Jakob

BC 345
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
+41 21 69 31329
http://github.com/wjakob

I am an as­sist­ant pro­fess­or lead­ing the Real­ist­ic Graph­ics Lab at EPFL's School of Com­puter and Com­mu­nic­a­tion Sci­ences.

My re­search mostly re­volves around light trans­port sim­u­la­tions and ma­ter­i­al ap­pear­ance mod­els, in par­tic­u­lar: study­ing the op­tics of nat­ur­al and man-made ma­ter­i­als that oc­cur in our world, de­vel­op­ing suit­able math­em­at­ic­al mod­els, and val­id­at­ing them against ra­diomet­ric meas­ure­ments. The over­arch­ing goal of this work is to im­prove the ac­cur­acy and fi­del­ity of light trans­port sim­u­la­tions in com­puter graph­ics, and to make the un­der­ly­ing mod­els ac­cur­ate and fast enough for pre­dict­ive design and man­u­fac­tur­ing ap­plic­a­tions.

Bio: I com­pleted my Ph.D. at the De­part­ment of Com­puter Sci­ence at Cor­nell Uni­versity, where I was ad­vised by Steve Marschner. Be­fore com­ing to EPFL, I was a Mar­ie Curie postdoc­tor­al fel­low at ETH Zürich's In­ter­act­ive Geo­metry Lab where I worked with Olga Sork­ine-Hornung.

Peer-reviewing conflicts

Automatically generated from publications in the last two years: Benedikt Bitterli, Xifeng Gao, Stefan Gumhold, Matthias Hullin, Greg Humphreys, Wojciech Jarosz, Misha Kazhdan, Steve Marschner, Jan Novák, Daniele Panozzo, Matt Pharr, Nico Schertler, Marco Tarini, Zdravko Velinov, Sebastian Werner, and Tizian Zeltner.

Teaching

CS-440: Ad­vanced Com­puter Graph­ics
Wenzel Jakob, Tizian Zeltner, and Merlin Nimier-David
Spring 2018
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CS 328: Nu­mer­ic­al Meth­ods for Visu­al Com­put­ing
Wenzel Jakob, Tizian Zeltner, Jan Bednarík, and Sami Arpa
Fall 2017
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CS-440: Ad­vanced Com­puter Graph­ics
Wenzel Jakob, Tizian Zeltner, Michalina Pacholska, and Leonardo Impett
Spring 2017
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CM1106
Visu­al Com­put­ing Sem­in­ar
Wenzel Jakob
Spring 2017
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CS 328: Nu­mer­ic­al Meth­ods for Visu­al Com­put­ing
Wenzel Jakob, Andreas Finke, Bugra Tekin, Julia Proskurnia, and Leonardo Impett
Fall 2016
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INF 1
Visu­al Com­put­ing Sem­in­ar
Wenzel Jakob
Fall 2016
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Visu­al Com­put­ing Sem­in­ar
Wenzel Jakob
Spring 2016
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Publications

The Layer Laboratory: A Calculus for Additive and Subtractive Composition of Anisotropic Surface Reflectance
Tizian Zeltner and Wenzel Jakob
Conditionally accepted to Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2018)
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Reversible Jump Metropolis Light Transport using Inverse Mappings
Benedikt Bitterli, Wenzel Jakob, Jan Novák, and Wojciech Jarosz
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (2017), presen­ted at SIG­GRAPH 2018
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Scratch Iridescence: Wave-Optical Rendering of Diffractive Surface Structure
Sebastian Werner, Zdravko Velinov, Wenzel Jakob, and Matthias Hullin
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2017)
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Robust Hex-Dominant Mesh Generation using Field-Guided Polyhedral Agglomeration
Xifeng Gao, Wenzel Jakob, Marco Tarini, and Daniele Panozzo
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2017)
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Field-Aligned Online Surface Reconstruction
Nico Schertler, Marco Tarini, Wenzel Jakob, Misha Kazhdan, Stefan Gumhold, and Daniele Panozzo
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2017)
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Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation (3rd Edition)
Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys
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Path Space MCMC Methods in Computer Graphics
Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner
Book chapter Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Meth­ods (Spring­er Pro­ceed­ings in Math­em­at­ics & Stat­ist­ics)
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Geometric Tools for Exploring Manifolds of Light Transport Paths (ACM Research Highlight)
Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner
In Com­mu­nic­a­tions of the ACM (Novem­ber 2015)
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Instant Field-Aligned Meshes
Wenzel Jakob, Marco Tarini, Daniele Panozzo, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2015)
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Anisotropic Gaussian Mutations for Metropolis Light Transport through Hessian-Hamiltonian Dynamics
Tzu-Mao Li, Jaakko Lehtinen, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Wenzel Jakob, and Frédo Durand
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2015)
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layerlab: A Computational Toolbox for Layered Materials
Wenzel Jakob
In SIG­GRAPH 2015 Courses
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Path-space Motion Estimation and Decomposition for Robust Animation Filtering
Henning Zimmer, Fabrice Rousselle, Wenzel Jakob, Oliver Wang, David Adler, Wojciech Jarosz, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, and Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing 2015)
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Building Volumetric Appearance Models of Fabric Using Micro CT Imaging (ACM Research Highlight)
Shuang Zhao, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner, and Kavita Bala
In Com­mu­nic­a­tions of the ACM (Novem­ber 2014)
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A Comprehensive Framework for Rendering Layered Materials
Wenzel Jakob, Eugene D'Eon, Otto Jakob, and Steve Marschner
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2014)
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Discrete Stochastic Microfacet Models
Wenzel Jakob, Miloš Hašan, Ling-Qi Yan, Jason Lawrence, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Steve Marschner
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2014)
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Rendering Glints on High-Resolution Normal-Mapped Specular Surfaces
Ling-Qi Yan, Miloš Hašan, Wenzel Jakob, Jason Lawrence, Steve Marschner, and Ravi Ramamoorthi
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2014)
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Manifold Exploration: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique for Rendering Scenes with Difficult Specular Transport
Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2012)
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Structure-aware Synthesis for Predictive Woven Fabric Appearance
Shuang Zhao, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner, and Kavita Bala
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2012)
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Building Volumetric Appearance Models of Fabric using Micro CT Imaging
Shuang Zhao, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner, and Kavita Bala
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2011)
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Progressive Expectation-Maximization for Hierarchical Volumetric Photon Mapping
Wenzel Jakob, Christian Regg, and Wojciech Jarosz
In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing 2011)
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Goal-Based Caustics
Marios Papas, Wojciech Jarosz, Wenzel Jakob, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Wojciech Matusik, and Tim Weyrich
In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics)
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A Radiative Transfer Framework for Rendering Materials with Anisotropic Structure
Wenzel Jakob, Jonathan T. Moon, Adam Arbree, Kavita Bala, and Steve Marschner
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2010)
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Capturing Hair Assemblies Fiber by Fiber
Wenzel Jakob, Jonathan T. Moon, and Steve Marschner
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2009)
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Software

PBRT
Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys
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Mitsuba renderer
Wenzel Jakob
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Nori 2: an educational ray tracer
Wenzel Jakob
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pybind11—Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
Wenzel Jakob
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