Optical microcavities confine light to small volumes by resonant recirculation. Devices based
on optical microcavities are already indispensable for a wide range of applications and …

Modern rendering systems are confronted with a dauntingly large and growing set of
requirements: in their pursuit of realism, physically based techniques must increasingly …

We present DiffTaichi, a new differentiable programming language tailored for building high-
performance differentiable physical simulators. Based on an imperative programming …

3D visual computing data are often spatially sparse. To exploit such sparsity, people have
developed hierarchical sparse data structures, such as multi-level sparse voxel grids …

DR. JIT is a new just-in-time compiler for physically based rendering and its derivative. DR.
JIT expedites research on these topics in two ways: first, it traces high-level simulation code …

Machine learning as a discipline has seen an incredible surge of interest in recent years due
in large part to a perfect storm of new theory, superior tooling, renewed interest in its …

We describe Embree, an open source ray tracing framework for x86 CPUs. Embree is
explicitly designed to achieve high performance in professional rendering environments in …

Scientific data is continually increasing in complexity, variety and size, making efficient
visualization and specifically rendering an ongoing challenge. Traditional rasterization …

Using existing programming tools, writing high-performance image processing code
requires sacrificing readability, portability, and modularity. We argue that this is a …

The Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) architecture, supported by various high-
performance computing platforms, efficiently utilizes data-level parallelism. The SIMD model …