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Item Once-more Scattered Next Event Estimation for Volume Rendering(The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2022) Hanika, Johannes; Weidlich, Andrea; Droske, Marc; Ghosh, Abhijeet; Wei, Li-YiWe present a Monte Carlo path tracing technique to sample extended next event estimation contributions in participating media: we consider one additional scattering vertex on the way to the next event, accounting for focused blur, resulting in visually interesting image features. Our technique is tailored to thin homogeneous media with strongly forward scattering phase functions, such as water or atmospheric haze. Previous methods put emphasis on sampling transmittances or geometric factors, and are either limited to isotropic scattering, or used tabulation or polynomial approximation to account for some specific phase functions. We will show how to jointly importance sample the product of an arbitrary phase function with analytic sampling in the solid angle domain and the two reciprocal squared distance terms of the adjacent edges of the transport path. The technique is fast and simple to implement in an existing rendering system. Our estimator is designed specifically for forward scattering, so the new technique has to be combined with other estimators to cover the backward scattering contributions.Item Optimised Path Space Regularisation(The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2021) Weier, Philippe; Droske, Marc; Hanika, Johannes; Weidlich, Andrea; Vorba, JirĂ; Bousseau, Adrien and McGuire, MorganWe present Optimised Path Space Regularisation (OPSR), a novel regularisation technique for forward path tracing algorithms. Our regularisation controls the amount of roughness added to materials depending on the type of sampled paths and trades a small error in the estimator for a drastic reduction of variance in difficult paths, including indirectly visible caustics. We formulate the problem as a joint bias-variance minimisation problem and use differentiable rendering to optimise our model. The learnt parameters generalise to a large variety of scenes irrespective of their geometric complexity. The regularisation added to the underlying light transport algorithm naturally allows us to handle the problem of near-specular and glossy path chains robustly. Our method consistently improves the convergence of path tracing estimators, including state-of-the-art path guiding techniques where it enables finding otherwise hard-to-sample paths and thus, in turn, can significantly speed up the learning of guiding distributions.Item A Practical and Hierarchical Yarn-based Shading Model for Cloth(The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2023) Zhu, Junqiu; Montazeri, Zahra; Aubry, Jean-Marie; Yan, Ling-Qi; Weidlich, Andrea; Ritschel, Tobias; Weidlich, AndreaRealistic cloth rendering is a longstanding challenge in computer graphics due to the intricate geometry and hierarchical structure of cloth: Fibers form plies which in turn are combined into yarns which then are woven or knitted into fabrics. Previous fiber-based models have achieved high-quality close-up rendering, but they suffer from high computational cost, which limits their practicality. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical model that analytically aggregates light simulation on the fiber level by building on dual-scattering theory. Based on this, we can perform an efficient simulation of ply and yarn shading. Compared to previous methods, our approach is faster and uses less memory while preserving a similar accuracy. We demonstrate both through comparison with existing fiber-based shading models. Our yarn shading model can be applied to curves or surfaces, making it highly versatile for cloth shading. This duality paired with its simplicity and flexibility makes the model particularly useful for film and games production.Item Rendering 2023 CGF 42-4: Frontmatter(The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2023) Ritschel, Tobias; Weidlich, Andrea; Ritschel, Tobias; Weidlich, AndreaItem Rendering 2023 Symposium Track: Frontmatter(The Eurographics Association, 2023) Ritschel, Tobias; Weidlich, Andrea; Ritschel, Tobias; Weidlich, Andrea