The aim of realistic image synthesis is to produce high fidelity images that authentically
represent real scenes. As these images are produced for human observers, we may exploit …

Even with modern graphics hardware, it is still not possible to achieve high fidelity global
illumination renderings of complex scenes in real time. However, as these images are …

The media industry is demanding increasing fidelity for their rendered images. Despite the
advent of modern GPUs, the computational requirements of physically based global …

In this paper, we consider applications of perception-based video quality metrics to improve
the performance of global lighting computations and rendering of animation sequences. To …

The structure of the sampling and reconstruction process, as well as that of the scene and its
data representation, can be utilised to effect significant benefits in global illumination …

This collection of formulas and equations is supposed to be useful for anyone who is active
in the field of global illumination in computer graphics. I started this document as a helpful …

Abstract Image-Based Lighting (IBL) has become a very popular approach in computer
graphics. In essence IBL is based on capturing the illumination conditions in a scene in an …

Simulating global illumination effects greatly enhances the perceived quality of synthetic
images. Until recently, such lighting simulations were regarded as too demanding to be of …

So far, the problem of global illumination calculation has almost exclusively been
approached from an algorithmic point of view. We propose an architectural approach to …

A major goal in computer graphics is realistic image synthesis. To this end, illumination
methods have evolved from simple local shading models to physically based global …