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Volume 25 Issue 5
August  2010
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Romain Pacanowski, Xavier Granier, Christophe Schlick, Pierre Poulin. Volumetric Vector-Based Representation for Indirect Illumination Caching[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2010, 25(5): 925-932. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-010-1073-8
Citation: Romain Pacanowski, Xavier Granier, Christophe Schlick, Pierre Poulin. Volumetric Vector-Based Representation for Indirect Illumination Caching[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2010, 25(5): 925-932. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-010-1073-8
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Volumetric Vector-Based Representation for Indirect Illumination Caching

  • 1. CEA-CESTA, BP2 Le Barp, 33114, France;
    2. INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest/LaBRI | Bordeaux University, Talence, 33405, France;
    3. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
    4. LIGUM, Dept. I.R.O., Université|de Montréal, Montréal QC, H3C 3J7, Canada

Funds: Romain Pacanowski's work was supported by the Lavoisier Grant from French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Xavier Granier is supported by the Open Project Program of the State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University under Grant No. A1007.
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  • Author Bio:

    Romain Pacanowski received his Engineer degree from EFREI and his M.S. degree from the University of Bordeaux. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Bordeaux, France, and Université de Montéral, Canada. He is currently working for the CEA as postdoctoral fellow. His research interest includes realistic rendering as well as appearance modeling and acquisition. He is a member of ACM.

    Xavier Granier received his Engineer and M.S. degrees from the Grenoble Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. degree from University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France. He is currently a research scientist at INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France. His research interests include realistic lighting and expressive rendering, appearance modeling and acquisition. He is a member of ACM and EUROGRAPHICS.

    Christophe Schlick is a professor in computer science at the University of Bordeaux 2, France, where he has recently headed the Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Department. After having received his Ph.D. degree in 1992 for his work on BRDF models and Monte Carlo techniques, his research interests have embraced many aspects of computer graphics, including global illumination, procedural texture and geometric synthesis, curves and surfaces, point based modeling and rendering.

    Pierre Poulin is a full professor in the Computer Science and Operations Research Department of the Université de Montréal. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia and an M.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto, both in computer science. He has served on program committees of more than 35 international conferences. His research interests cover a wide range of topics, including image synthesis, image-based modeling, procedural modeling, natural phenomena, scientific visualization, and computer animation.

  • Received Date: December 11, 2009
  • Revised Date: March 31, 2010
  • Published Date: August 31, 2010
    Abstract
  • This paper introduces a caching technique based on a volumetric representation that captures low-frequency indirect illumination. This structure is intended for efficient storage and manipulation of illumination. It is based on a 3D grid that stores a fixed set of irradiance vectors. During preprocessing, this representation can be built using almost any existing global illumination software. During rendering, the indirect illumination within a voxel is interpolated from its associated irradiance vectors, and is used as additional local light sources. Compared with other techniques, the 3D vector-based representation of our technique offers increased robustness against local geometric variations of a scene. We thus demonstrate that it may be employed as an efficient and high-quality caching data structure for bidirectional rendering techniques such as particle tracing or photon mapping.
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