Summary of Fast Local Neural Regression For Low-cost, Path Traced Lambertian Global Illumination, by Arturo Salmi et al.
Fast Local Neural Regression for Low-Cost, Path Traced Lambertian Global Illumination
by Arturo Salmi, Szabolcs Cséfalvay, James Imber
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Graphics (cs.GR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach to real-time ray tracing for global illumination in computer graphics. It tackles the challenge of achieving high visual quality on commodity hardware by developing a neural network-based denoising algorithm that is computationally efficient and suitable for deployment on resource-constrained systems. The proposed method combines local linear model-based denoising with a neural network, demonstrating faithful single-frame reconstruction of global illumination at very low sample counts (1spp) and low computational cost. Additionally, the paper improves the quality and performance of local linear model-based denoising through a simplified mathematical treatment and demonstrates the usefulness of ambient occlusion as a guide channel. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making computer graphics look better on regular computers. It’s hard to make things look good in real-time because it takes a lot of work for the computer to do all the calculations. The researchers found a way to use a special kind of artificial intelligence (AI) to help with this problem. They combined two different approaches and showed that it works well even when using very few samples. This is important because it could be used in video games or movies where things need to look good quickly. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Neural network
