Sequential Monte Carlo adaptation in low-anisotropy participating media

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1097-1104

  Pegoraro, Vincent ^a   Wald, Ingo ^a,b   Parker, Steven G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; PARTICIPATING MEDIA; PREDICATE FUNCTIONS; SCENE REPRESENTATION; SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES; VARIANCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 51549107555     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01247.x     Document Type: Article

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