A progressive error estimation framework for photon density estimation

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Hachisuka, Toshiya ^a   Jarosz, Wojciech ^a,b   Jensen, Henrik Wann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

density estimation; photon mapping

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY ACCURACY; BIAS ESTIMATE; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DENSITY ESTIMATION; ERROR COMPUTATION; ERROR ESTIMATIONS; ERROR THRESHOLD; PHOTON DENSITIES; PHOTON MAPPING; RENDERING ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTIC ERRORS; STOCHASTIC NOISE;

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MAPPING; PHOTONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 78650872720     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1866158.1866170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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