Publications related to Ambient occlusion

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Differentiable Physically Based Rendering: Algorithms, Systems and Applications

Physically based rendering methods can create photorealistic images by simulating the propagation and interaction of light in a virtual scene. Given a scene description including the shape of objects, participating media, material properties, etc., the sim ...

EPFL2022

Direct time-of-flight SPAD image sensors for light detection and ranging

Preethi Padmanabhan

Depth sensing is an increasingly important feature in many applications of consumer, automotive, augmented/virtual reality (AR-VR), space and bio-medical imaging. Long range, high depth resolution, high spatial resolution, and high frame rates are often co ...

EPFL2021

A method for voxel ray-casting of scenes on a whole screen

Robin Mange

A method for screen-space voxel ray-casting of scenes on a whole screen. The method comprises providing a graphics card; rendering seamlessly any one of the following list of primitives containing at least polygons, voxels; using a GPU pipeline of the grap ...

2019

Reparameterizing Discontinuous Integrands for Differentiable Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Guillaume Rémi Bruno Loubet

Differentiable rendering has recently opened the door to a number of challenging inverse problems involving photorealistic images, such as computational material design and scattering-aware reconstruction of geometry and materials from photographs. Differe ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Learning to Reconstruct Texture-less Deformable Surfaces from a Single View

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Jan Bednarík

Recent years have seen the development of mature solutions for reconstructing deformable surfaces from a single image, provided that they are relatively well-textured. By contrast, recovering the 3D shape of texture-less surfaces remains an open problem, a ...

2018

Sampling the Multiple Facets of Light

Gilles Baechler

The theme of this thesis revolves around three important manifestations of light, namely its corpuscular, wave and electromagnetic nature. Our goal is to exploit these principles to analyze, design and build imaging modalities by developing new signal proc ...

EPFL2018

An embedded system for quasi real-time lighting computation based on sky monitoring

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Yujie Wu

Lighting simulation plays a significant role in the architectural design and evaluation of performance parameters of buildings. The general method of assuming a virtual sky in lighting simulation may lead to mismatch with the real situation, which conventi ...

2017

Dye-sensitized solar cells for efficient power generation under ambient lighting

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Paul Liska, Joël Teuscher, Fabrizio Giordano, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag

Solar cells that operate efficiently under indoor lighting are of great practical interest as they can serve as electric power sources for portable electronics and devices for wireless sensor networks or the Internet of Things. Here, we demonstrate a dye-s ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Dynamic 3D Avatar Creation from Hand-held Video Input

Mark Pauly, Sofien Bouaziz, Alexandru Eugen Ichim

We present a complete pipeline for creating fully rigged, personalized 3D facial avatars from hand-held video. Our system faithfully recovers facial expression dynamics of the user by adapting a blendshape template to an image sequence of recorded expressi ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Photobleaching Kinetics and Time-Integrated Emission of Fluorescent Probes in Cellular Membranes

Daniel Sage

Since the pioneering work of Hirschfeld, it is known that time-integrated emission (TiEm) of a fluorophore is independent of fluorescence quantum yield and illumination intensity. Practical implementation of this important result for determining exact prob ...

Mdpi Ag2014

Engineering photonic nanojets

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

Photonic Nanojets are highly localized wave fields emerging directly behind dielectric microspheres; if suitably illuminated. In this contribution we reveal how different illumination conditions can be used to engineer the photonic Nanojets by measuring th ...

Optical Society of America2011

Daisy: An Efficient Dense Descriptor Applied to Wide Baseline Stereo

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Engin Tola

In this paper, we introduce a local image descriptor, DAISY, which is very efficient to compute densely. We also present an EM based algorithm to compute dense depth and occlusion maps from wide baseline image pairs using this descriptor. This yields much ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Augmented reality for non-rigid surfaces

Julien Pilet

Augmented Reality (AR) is the process of integrating virtual elements in reality, often by mixing computer graphics into a live video stream of a real scene. It requires registration of the target object with respect to the cameras. To this end, some appro ...

EPFL2008

Kubelka-Munk model for imperfectly diffuse light distribution in paper

Roger Hersch, Lin Yang

Perfectly diffuse light is a fundamental assumption in the Kubelka-Munk (KM) modeL This assumption is, however seldom fulfilled by real media. In this work, we build a bridge between a weakly absorbing medium with an imperfectly diffuse light distribution ...

2008

Retexturing in the Presence of Complex Illumination and Occlusions

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Julien Pilet

We present a non-rigid registration technique that achieves spatial, photometric, and visibility accuracy. It lets us photo-realistically augment 3D deformable surfaces under complex illumination conditions and in spite of severe occlusions. There are many ...

2007

Segmentation fémorale par modèle déformable et programmation dynamique

Gaetan Frederick Marti

This Ph.D thesis presents new paradigms in the field of segmentation by mean of deformable models. Classic model-based segmentation approach consists of iteratively deform complex models in the space of the scanner slices until the organ to segment is fitt ...

EPFL2007

Holistic Radiation Modelling with a Fast Simplified Radiosity Algorithm

Darren Robinson

The radiant external environment may be described by two hemispheres, above and below the horizontal plane, which are discretised into patches of known solid angle. Occlusions to these patches may be combined and represented as some patch fraction for whic ...

2005

Augmenting Deformable Objects in Real-Time

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Julien Pilet

We present a real-time system that can draw virtual patterns or images on deforming real objects by estimating both the deformations and the shading parameters. We show that this is what is required to render the virtual elements so that they blend convinc ...

2005