Wesley Chang, Venkataram Sivaram, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Toshiya Hachisuka, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Tzu-Mao Li

SIGGRAPH North America 2023 (Conference Track)

Physically-based inverse rendering algorithms that utilize differentiable rendering typically use gradient descent to optimize for scene parameters such as materials and lighting. We observe that the scene often changes slowly from frame to frame during optimization, similar to animation, and therefore adapt temporal reuse from ReSTIR to reuse samples across gradient iterations and accelerate inverse rendering.

Lufei Liu, Wesley Chang, Francois Demoullin, Yuan Hsi Chou, Mohammadreza Saed, David Pankratz, Tyler Nowicki, and Tor M. Aamodt

54th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2021

Recent Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) incorporate hardware accelerator units designed for ray tracing. These accelerator units target the process of traversing hierarchical tree data structures used to test for ray-object intersections. We propose a ray intersection predictor that speculatively elides redundant operations during this process and proceeds directly to test primitives that the ray is likely to intersect.