An Adaptive Photon Mapping in the Use of Automatic Differentiation

  • Namae, Takuya (Department of Information and System Engineering, Chuo University) ;
  • Makino, Mitsunori (Department of Information and System Engineering, Chuo University)
  • Published : 2002.07.01

Abstract

Photon mapping is an efficient global illumination technique for realistic image synthesis that has been developed in computer graphics. In this paper, an adaptive photon mapping in the use of automatic differentiation is proposed. Since the automatic differentiation is used when photons emit from the light sources through the scene, we can check the variation of surrounding shape. Therefore, we can decrease the number of photons and generate an image in relatively low computational cost.

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