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Realistic Graphics Lab
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Publications

Solving Inverse PDE Problems using Grid-Free Monte Carlo Estimators
Ekrem Fatih Yilmazer, Delio Vicini, and Wenzel Jakob
To appear in Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2024)
Details Paper Video Reference Implementation
Inverse Rendering for Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing
Baptiste Nicolet, Felix Wechsler, Jorge Madrid-Wolff, Christophe Moser, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2024)
Details Reference Implementation Paper
Projective Sampling for Differentiable Rendering of Geometry
Ziyi Zhang, Nicolas Roussel, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2023)
Details Paper Paper Supplemental video Talk (small size)
Recursive Control Variates for Inverse Rendering
Baptiste Nicolet, Fabrice Rousselle, Jan Novák, Alexander Keller, Wenzel Jakob, and Thomas Müller
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2023)
Details Paper Reference implementation Video
Dr.Jit: A Just-In-Time Compiler for Differentiable Rendering
Wenzel Jakob, Sébastien Speierer, Nicolas Roussel, and Delio Vicini
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2022)
Details Paper External link (Github repository) Video
Differentiable Signed Distance Function Rendering
Delio Vicini, Sébastien Speierer, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2022)
Details Paper Video Video Code
Unbiased Inverse Volume Rendering with Differential Trackers
Merlin Nimier-David, Thomas Müller, Alexander Keller, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2022)
Details Paper SIGGRAPH'22 talk Code
Large Steps in Inverse Rendering of Geometry
Baptiste Nicolet, Alec Jacobson, and Wenzel Jakob
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2021)
Details Paper Video Video Reference implementation Sparse solver
A Non-Exponential Transmittance Model for Volumetric Scene Representations
Delio Vicini, Wenzel Jakob, and Anton Kaplanyan
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2021)
Details Paper Talk video Supplemental video PyTorch operator
Monte Carlo Estimators for Differential Light Transport
Tizian Zeltner, Sébastien Speierer, Iliyan Georgiev, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2021)
Details Paper Video Talk video
Path Replay Backpropagation: Differentiating Light Paths using Constant Memory and Linear Time
Delio Vicini, Sébastien Speierer, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2021)
Details Paper Talk video
Material and Lighting Reconstruction for Complex Indoor Scenes with Texture-space Differentiable Rendering
Merlin Nimier-David, Zhao Dong, Wenzel Jakob, and Anton Kaplanyan
In Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing (DL-only Track)
Details Paper Supplemental video EGSR 2021 Talk
Slope-Space Integrals for Specular Next Event Estimation
Guillaume Loubet, Tizian Zeltner, Nicolas Holzschuch, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2020)
Details Paper Supplemental video Supplemental report
A General Framework for Pearlescent Materials
Ibón Guillén, Julio Marco, Diego Gutierrez, Wenzel Jakob, and Adrian Jarabo
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2020)
Details Paper
Radiative Backpropagation: An Adjoint Method for Lightning-Fast Differentiable Rendering
Merlin Nimier-David, Sébastien Speierer, Benoît Ruiz, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2020)
Details Paper SIGGRAPH 2020 Presentation
Specular Manifold Sampling for Rendering High-Frequency Caustics and Glints
Tizian Zeltner, Iliyan Georgiev, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2020)
Details Paper Video External link (Github repository) Talk video Fast forward
Image-Based Acquisition and Modeling of Polarimetric Reflectance
Seung-Hwan Baek, Tizian Zeltner, Hyun Jin Ku, Inseung Hwang, Xin Tong, Wenzel Jakob, and Min H. Kim
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2020)
Details Paper Video
Practical Product Path Guiding Using Linearly Transformed Cosines
Stavros Diolatzis, Adrien Gruson, Wenzel Jakob, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, and George Drettakis
In In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing 2020)
Details Paper
Unified Neural Encoding of BTFs
Gilles Rainer, Abhijeet Ghosh, Wenzel Jakob, and Tim Weyrich
In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics 2020)
Details Paper
Mitsuba 2: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer
Merlin Nimier-David, Delio Vicini, Tizian Zeltner, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2019)
Details Paper Supplemental video Conference presentation
Reparameterizing Discontinuous Integrands for Differentiable Rendering
Guillaume Loubet, Nicolas Holzschuch, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2019)
Details Paper Supplemental video Conference presentation External link (Github repository)
Wide Gamut Spectral Upsampling with Fluorescence
Alisa Jung, Alexander Wilkie, Johannes Hanika, Wenzel Jakob, and Carsten Dachsbacher
In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing 2019)
Details Paper
A Learned Shape-Adaptive Subsurface Scattering Model
Delio Vicini, Vladlen Koltun, and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2019)
Details Paper Paper External link (Github repository) Conference presentation
A Low-Dimensional Function Space for Efficient Spectral Upsampling
Wenzel Jakob and Johannes Hanika
In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics 2019)
Details Paper External link (Github repository)
Neural BTF Compression and Interpolation
Gilles Rainer, Wenzel Jakob, Abhijeet Ghosh, and Tim Weyrich
In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics 2019)
Details Paper
Denoising Deep Monte Carlo Renderings
Delio Vicini, David Adler, Jan Novák, Fabrice Rousselle, and Brent Burley
In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um
Details Paper Video
An Adaptive Parameterization for Efficient Material Acquisition and Rendering
Jonathan Dupuy and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2018)
Details Paper Video C++ & Python code
The Layer Laboratory: A Calculus for Additive and Subtractive Composition of Anisotropic Surface Reflectance
Tizian Zeltner and Wenzel Jakob
In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2018)
Details Paper External link (Github repository)
PN-Method for Multiple Scattering in Participating Media
David Körner, Jamie Portsmouth, and Wenzel Jakob
In Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing (2018) - Ex­per­i­ment­al Ideas & Im­ple­ment­a­tions
Details Paper External link (Github repository)
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)
Details Paper Video
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
Details Paper
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)
Details Paper External link (Github repository)
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)
Details Paper Video External link (Github repository)
Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation (3rd Edition)
Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys
Details GitHub repository
Path Space MCMC Methods in Computer Graphics
Wenzel Jakob
Book chapter Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Meth­ods (Spring­er Pro­ceed­ings in Math­em­at­ics & Stat­ist­ics)
Details Paper
Geometric Tools for Exploring Manifolds of Light Transport Paths (ACM Research Highlight)
Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner
In Com­mu­nic­a­tions of the ACM (Novem­ber 2015)
Details
Instant Field-Aligned Meshes
Wenzel Jakob, Marco Tarini, Daniele Panozzo, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung
In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2015)
Details Paper GitHub project
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)
Details Paper GitHub project
layerlab: A Computational Toolbox for Layered Materials
Wenzel Jakob
In SIG­GRAPH 2015 Courses
Details Paper GitHub project
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)
Details Paper Video Motion integrator source code
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)
Details Paper Video
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)
Details Paper Video
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)
Details Paper Video
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)
Details Paper Video
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)
Details Paper Video
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)
Details Paper Video
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)
Details Paper Video
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)
Details Paper Video
Goal-Based Caustics
Marios Papas, Wojciech Jarosz, Wenzel Jakob, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Wojciech Matusik, and Tim Weyrich
In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics)
Details Paper Video
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)
Details Paper Video