Global illumination with radiance regression functions

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Ren, Peiran ^a,c   Wang, Jiaping ^b   Gong, Minmin ^c   Lin, Stephen ^c   Tong, Xin ^c   Guo, Baining ^a,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Global illumination; Neural network; Non linear regression; Real time rendering

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL APPROXIMATION; GEOMETRIC COMPLEXITY; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; INDIRECT ILLUMINATION; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; REAL-TIME RENDERING; REGRESSION FUNCTION;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; LIGHT SOURCES; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 84880846355     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2461912.2462009     Document Type: Article

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