Nvidia Corporation

Ken Dahm

Alexander Georg Keller

Nikolaus Binder

Carsten Alexander Waechter

Lutz Kettner

Marc Droske

Pascal Gautron

Rajko Yasui-Schoeffel

Enzo Catalano

A method, a computer program, and a production renderer for accelerating a rendering process of an image are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes intercepting a first invocation of a function from a custom shader during a rendering process of an image, computing a result of the function employing a processor, and returning the result to the custom shader in response to a second invocation of the function during the rendering process.

Method and a production renderer for accelerating image rendering

A method for light transport includes steps of initializing a data structure that is configured to provide an importance value for each incident sample in a three-dimensional (3D) scene and tracing, in a direction from an origin, a ray of a plurality of rays through the 3D scene to intersect an object at a hitpoint. Additional steps include selecting a next direction of the ray according to a distribution of the importance values at the hitpoint, tracing the ray in the next direction to find a next hitpoint, updating a first importance value corresponding to the hitpoint using a second importance value corresponding to the next hitpoint, and setting the hitpoint of the ray to the next hitpoint. The additional steps are repeated until the next hitpoint is an endpoint. A contribution, based on each hitpoint and the endpoint, to a pixel that is intersected by the ray is recorded.

Reinforcement learning for light transport

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for performing path space filtering. In use, a set of light transport paths associated with a scene is sampled. Additionally, a plurality of vertices associated with the sampled set of light transport paths is selected, where each selected vertex has an associated throughput and light contribution. Further, an averaged light contribution of each of the selected plurality of vertices is determined, utilizing one or more weights. Further still, the averaged light contribution of each of the selected plurality of vertices is combined after multiplying the averaged light contribution of each of the selected vertices by the associated throughput of the vertex.

System, method, and computer program product for performing path space filtering

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining a quantity of light received by an element of a scene. In use, a quantity of light received by a first element of the scene is determined by averaging a quantity of light received by elements of the scene that are associated with a selected set of light paths.

System, method, and computer program product for determining a quantity of light received by an element of a scene

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for simulating light transport. In operation, a distribution function is decomposed utilizing a technique for sampling from a probability distribution (e.g. the Alias Method, etc.). Additionally, light transport associated with at least one scene is simulated utilizing information associated with the decomposed distribution function.

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Ken Dahm