A Foveated Framework to Accelerate Real-time Path Tracing

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2023
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The Eurographics Association
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We developed a framework to accelerate real-time path tracing through foveated rendering, a robust technique that leverages human vision. Our dynamic foveated path-tracing framework integrates fixations and selectively lowers the rendering resolution towards the periphery. Through comprehensive experimentation, we demonstrated the effectiveness of our framework in this paper. Our solution can significantly enhance rendering performance, up to 25× without any notable visual differences. We further evaluated the framework using a structured error map algorithm with variable sample numbers.
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CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies -> Ray tracing; Perception

        
@inproceedings{
10.2312:stag.20231305
, booktitle = {
Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics - Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference
}, editor = {
Banterle, Francesco
 and
Caggianese, Giuseppe
 and
Capece, Nicola
 and
Erra, Ugo
 and
Lupinetti, Katia
 and
Manfredi, Gilda
}, title = {{
A Foveated Framework to Accelerate Real-time Path Tracing
}}, author = {
Mohanto, Bipul
 and
Kluge, Sven
 and
Staadt, Oliver
}, year = {
2023
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
2617-4855
}, ISBN = {
978-3-03868-235-6
}, DOI = {
10.2312/stag.20231305
} }
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