Efficient participating media rendering with differentiable regularization

Wu, Wenshi

doi:10.1007/s41095-023-0372-2

Efficient participating media rendering with differentiable regularization

2024-10-01

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DOI：10.1007/s41095-023-0372-2

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Highly scattering media, such as milk, skin, and clouds, are common in the real world. Rendering participating media is challenging, especially for high-order scattering dominant media, because the light may undergo a large number of scattering events before leaving the surface. Monte Carlo-based methods typically require a long time to produce noise-free results. Based on the observation that low-albedo media contain less noise than high-albedo media, we propose reducing the variance of the rendered results using differentiable regularization. We first render an image with low-albedo participating media together with the gradient with respect to the albedo, and then predict the final rendered image with a low-albedo image and gradient image via a novel prediction function. To achieve high quality, we also consider the gradients of neighboring frames to provide a noise-free gradient image. Ultimately, our method can produce results with much less overall error than equal-time path tracing methods.

Keywords:

participating media

differentiable regularization

differentiable rendering

volumetric path tracing

temporal denoising

Efficient participating media rendering with differentiable regularization

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