Gradient-Domain Photon Density Estimation

This is the code release for the paper "Gradient-Domain Photon Density Estimation" in Eurographics 2017.

It extends Mitsuba 0.5.0 to include the following rendering techniques: Gradient-Domain Photon Density Estimation(G-PM), Gradient-Domain Path Tracing (G-PT) and Gradient-Domain Bidirectional Path Tracing (G-BDPT).

The code can be compiled on Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2013, and Arch Linux platform.

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• Paper

• Scene data and reference images

• Mitsuba dependencies

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  • Mac

License

If you use this code, please consider citing the following works accordingly:

• Gradient-Domain Photon Density Estimation

@article{hua2017gpm,
  title     = {Gradient-Domain Photon Density Estimation},
  author    = {Hua, Binh-Son and Gruson, Adrien and Nowrouzezahrai, Derek and Hachisuka, Toshiya},  
  journal   = {Eurographics},
  year      = {2017},
  publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
}

• Gradient-Domain Bidirectional Path Tracing

@Article{manzi2015gbdpt,
  author    = {Manzi, Marco and Kettunen, Markus and Aittala, Miika and Lehtinen, Jaakko and Durand, Fr{\'e}do and Zwicker, Matthias},
  title     = {Gradient-domain bidirectional path tracing},
  journal   = {Eurographics Symposium on Rendering},
  year      = {2015},
}

• Gradient-Domain Path Tracing

@article{kettunen2015gpt,
  author    = {Kettunen, Markus and Manzi, Marco and Aittala, Miika and Lehtinen, Jaakko and Durand, Fr{\'e}do and Zwicker, Matthias},
  title     = {Gradient-domain path tracing},
  journal   = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
  year      = {2015},
  volume    = {34},
  number    = {4},
}

• Gradient-Domain Metropolis Light Transport

@article{lehtinen2013gmlt,
  author    = {Lehtinen, Jaakko and Karras, Tero and Laine, Samuli and Aittala, Miika and Durand, Fr{\'e}do and Aila, Timo},
  title     = {Gradient-domain metropolis light transport},
  journal   = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
  year      = {2013},
  volume    = {32},
  number    = {4},
}

• Mitsuba Renderer

@misc{jakob2010mitsuba,
  author = {Jakob, Wenzel},
  title  = {Mitsuba Renderer},
  year   = {2010},
  note   = {http://www.mitsuba-renderer.org},
}

This source code includes the following open source implementations:

• Screened Poisson reconstruction code from NVIDIA, released under the new BSD license.
• Mitsuba 0.5.0 by Wenzel Jakob, released under the GNU General Public License (version 3).

Contact

Please feel free to email binhson.hua[at]gmail.com or adrien.gruson[at]gmail.com for questions regarding the code.