Extended path integral formulation for volumetric transport

1The University of Tokyo 2Solid Angle 3Dartmouth College 4Charles University in Prague 5McGill University

In Proceedings of EGSR (Experimental Ideas & Implementations), 2017

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We propose an extension of the path integral formulation amenable to the expression of volumetric light transport with photon beam estimates. Our main contribution is a generalization of Hachisuka et al.'s [2012] extended path space formulation to light transport in participating media. Our formulation supports various point- and beam-based volumetric density estimators, unifying them with path integration in the spirit of the work by Křivánek et al. [2014]. One unique and useful property of our formulation is that it recasts beam-based density estimation as Monte Carlo path vertex sampling in a higher-dimensional space, rather than beam merging in a lower-dimensional space, which enables a practical algorithm for beam estimators with 3D-blur kernels. We thus establish a complementary theoretical foundation for the development of rendering algorithms using points, beams, and paths in participating media.

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Toshiya Hachisuka, Iliyan Georgiev, Wojciech Jarosz, Jaroslav Křivánek, Derek Nowrouzezahrai. Extended path integral formulation for volumetric transport. Proceedings of EGSR (Experimental Ideas & Implementations), June 2017. 
@inproceedings{hachisuka17extended,
    author    = {Hachisuka, Toshiya and Georgiev, Iliyan and Jarosz, Wojciech and K\v riv\'anek, Jaroslav and
                 Nowrouzezahrai, Derek},
    title     = {Extended Path Integral Formulation for Volumetric Transport},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of EGSR (Experimental Ideas \\& Implementations)},
    year      = {2017},
    month     = jun,
    publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
    doi       = {10/gfznb3}
}
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