Accurate direct illumination using iterative adaptive sampling

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 353-363

  Donikian, Michael ^b,e   Walter, Bruce ^c,f   Bala, Kavita ^a,c,g   Fernandez, Sebastian ^a,d   Greenberg, Donald P ^a,c,e,g  

^a IEEE

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^d Department of Computer Graphics   (United States)

^e Sportvision Inc ^*  (United States)

^f 580 Rhodes Hall ^*  (United States)

^g Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Ccarlo; Raytracing; Shadowing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX OCCLUSION; SHADOWING; SPATIAL COHERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SAMPLING;

LIGHTING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIGHT; LIGHTING; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33645158769     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.41     Document Type: Article

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