Efficient Environment Map Rendering Based on Decomposition

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dc.contributor.authorWu, Yu‐Tingen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-07T16:48:27Z
dc.date.available2025-03-07T16:48:27Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents an efficient environment map sampling algorithm designed to render high‐quality, low‐noise images with only a few light samples, making it ideal for real‐time applications. We observe that bright pixels in the environment map produce high‐frequency shading effects, such as sharp shadows and shading, while the rest influence the overall tone of the scene. Building on this insight, our approach differs from existing techniques by categorizing the pixels in an environment map into emissive and non‐emissive regions and developing specialized algorithms tailored to the distinct properties of each region. By decomposing the environment lighting, we ensure that light sources are deposited on bright pixels, leading to more accurate shadows and specular highlights. Additionally, this strategy allows us to exploit the smoothness in the low‐frequency component by rendering a smaller image with more lights, thereby enhancing shading accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly reduces shadow artefacts and image noise compared to previous techniques, while also achieving lower numerical errors across a range of illumination types, particularly under limited sample conditions.en_US
dc.description.number1
dc.description.sectionheadersOriginal Article
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume44
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.15264
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages14
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.15264
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.1111/cgf15264
dc.publisherEurographics ‐ The European Association for Computer Graphics and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectenvironment map sampling
dc.subjectillumination rendering
dc.subjectrendering
dc.subject• Computing methodologies → Ray tracing; Rasterization; Mixed / augmented reality; Virtual reality
dc.titleEfficient Environment Map Rendering Based on Decompositionen_US
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