Lighting
Thursday, 12 August
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Room 515A
Session Chair: Baining Guo, Microsoft Research Asia

Spherical Harmonic Gradients Using spherical harmonic gradients for efficient extrapolation of incident radiance enables real-time close-range illumination using only a single sample for the incident lighting. Thomas Annen Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik tannen (at) mpi-sb.mpg.de Frédo Durand Jan Kautz Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hans-Peter Seidel Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Non-Linear Kernel-Based Precomputed Light Transport A real-time method for rendering static objects from arbitrary views under distant all-frequency lighting. The method can render reflections, interreflections, and subsurface scattering using precomputed light transport. Paul Green Massachusetts Institute of Technology green (at) csail.mit.edu Frédo Durand Massachusetts Institute of Technology Henrik Wann Jensen University of California, San Diego Jan Kautz Wojciech Matusik Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bidirectional Importance Sampling for Illumination From Environment Maps Introducing bidirectional importance sampling, a method for rendering that samples visibility according to an importance derived from the product of BRDF and environment-map illumination. David Burke The University of British Columbia dburke (at) cs.ubc.ca Abhijeet Ghosh Wolfgang Heidrich The University of British Columbia
Wrangling Lighting and Rendering Data at Disney Feature Animation A user-friendly system for wrangling scene data and relationships, which serves as the foundation for Disney's internal lighting package, Lumiere, currently being used in production on "Chicken Little." Mark A. McLaughlin Walt Disney Feature Animation mark.mclaughlin (at) disney.com Joseph M. Lohmar Ernest J. Petti Chris Springfield Lewis Wakeland Walt Disney Feature Animation