High-Performance Graphics 2016

HPG 2016 - Welcome Drink and Registration

Registration and Coffee

Opening remarks

Papers: Hidden surfaces

Lunch

Papers: Better BVHs

Afternoon break

Panel (Topic TBD)

Whiskey Tasting

Registration and Coffee

Keynote Speaker 

Morning break

Papers: Fast GI

Lunch

Papers: Ray tracing

Afternoon break

Hot3D

HPG Conference Dinner

Registration and Coffee

Morning break

Keynote Speaker (HPG, MAM, and EGSR)

Markus Gross ETH and Disney Research

The Technology to Create the Magic

Disney Research was launched in 2008 as a network of research laboratories that collaborate closely with
academic institutions such as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and Carnegie Mellon University.
Its mission is to push the frontiers of technology in areas relevant to Disney's creative entertainment businesses.
Disney Research develops innovations for Parks, Film, Animation, Television, Games, and Consumer Products.
Research areas include video and  animation technologies, postproduction and special effects, digital fabrication,
robotics, and much more. This talk gives an overview of Disney Research spiced with some examples of our
latest and greatest inventions. The focus is on the collaboration between ETH Zurich and the Walt Disney
Company displaying the synergies arising from this program. This talk will highlight a company perspective as
well as a view from the academic angle.

Markus Gross is a Professor of Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH),
head of the Computer Graphics Laboratory, and the Director of Disney Research, Zürich. He joined the ETH
Computer Science faculty in 1994. His research interests include physically based modeling, computer animation,
immersive displays, and video technology. Before joining Disney, Gross was director of the Institute of
Computational Sciences at ETH. He received a master of science in electrical and computer engineering and
a PhD in computer graphics and image analysis, both from Saarland University in Germany in 1986 and 1989.
Gross serves on the boards of numerous international research institutes, societies, and governmental
organizations. He received the Technical Achievement Award from EUROGRAPHICS in 2010, the Swiss ICT
Champions Award in 2011 and the IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. He is a fellow of
the ACM and of the EUROGRAPHICS Association and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
as well as the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2013 he received a Technical
Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Konrad Zuse Medal of GI and
the Karl Heinz Beckurts price. He cofounded Cyfex AG, Novodex AG, LiberoVision AG, Dybuster AG and
Gimalon AG.

Hamilton Building - MacNeill Theatre

Afternoon break

Eurographics Symposium on Rendering

EGSR Opening

Paper Session: Capturing Nature (Session chair: Christian Lessig)

• Single-shot layered reflectance separation using a polarized light field camera
  Kim, Jaewon; Izadi, Shahram; Ghosh, Abhijeet;

• Perceptually Motivated BRDF Comparison using Single Image
  Havran, Vlastimil; Filip, Jiri; Myszkowski, Karol;

• A phenomenological model for throughfall rendering in real-time
  Weber, Yoann; Jolivet, Vincent; Gilet, Guillaume; Nanko, Kazuki; Ghazanfarpour, Djamchid;

Paper session: Into the pipeline (Session chair: Mike Doggett)

• 4D-rasterization for Fast Soft Shadow Rendering
  Wang, lili; Zhao, Qi; meng, chunlei; Popescu, Voicu;

• Local Shape Editing at the Compositing Stage
  Zubiaga, Carlos Jorge; Guennebaud, Gael; Vergne, Romain; Barla, Pascal;

Joint Social Event (HPG, MAM, and EGSR)

Registration and Coffee

Paper session: Sampling (Session chair: Jaroslav Křivánek)

• Solid Angle Sampling of Disk and Cylinder Lights
  Gamito, Manuel;

• Improving the Dwivedi Sampling Scheme
  Meng, Johannes; Hanika, Johannes; Dachsbacher, Carsten;

• Line Sampling for Direct Illumination
  Billen, Niels; Dutré, Philip;

• Projective blue-noise sampling
  Reinert, Bernhard; Ritschel, Tobias; Seidel, Hans‐Peter; Georgiev, Iliyan;

Morning Break

Paper session: Light Transport 1 (Session chair: Wojciech Jarosz)

• Parallel Multiple-Bounce Irradiance Caching
  Jones, Nathaniel; Reinhart, Christoph;

• Product Importance Sampling for Transport Path Guiding
  Herholz, Sebastian; Elek, Oskar; Vorba, Jiří; Lensch, Hendrik; Křivánek, Jaroslav;

• Forward Light Cuts: A Scalable Approach for Real-Time Global Illumination
  Laurent, Gilles; de La Rivière, Grégoire; Delalandre, Cyril; Boubekeur, Tamy; 

Lunch

Invited Speaker

Steve Marschner Cornell

Rendering research, its applications, and the real world

Computer graphics is a unique and fascinating field—it draws people with many goals but with a shared passion
for building models and simulations that exhibit the complexity, simplicity, and beauty of our real world. Our
emphases on generality, efficiency, and correct qualitative behavior set us apart from many related fields, and
make for a particular kind of value we bring to varied applications. I will explore the push and pull between
research in rendering and its applications—both to creating virtual worlds and to making real things—and the
value of good models of the real world.  Along the way I will discuss some of my own research in modeling
materials for graphics, and spend some time looking for—though perhaps not finding—the secrets of selecting
successful research directions. The talk is aimed primarily at students starting careers in graphics, but I hope
everyone can find something of interest to take away.

Hamilton Building - Joly Theatre

Paper session: Looking Through Surfaces (Session chair: Martin Eisemann)

• Sparse high-degree polynomials for wide-angle lenses
  Schrade, Emanuel; Hanika, Johannes; Dachsbacher, Carsten;

• Efficient Ray Tracing Through Aspheric Lenses and Imperfect Bokeh Synthesis
  Joo, Hyuntae; Kwon, Soonhyeon; Lee, Sangmin; Eisemann, Elmar; Lee, Sungkil;

• Shape Depiction for Transparent Objects with Bucketed k-Buffer
  Murray, David; 

Afternoon Break

EGSR Town Hall Meeting

This is not an EGSR event but may be of interest:

EGSR Conference Dinner

Registration and Coffee

Paper Session: Faster Rendering (Session chair: Chris Wyman)

• First-order Regression with Nonlinear Weights for Denoising Monte Carlo Renderings
  Bitterli, Benedikt; Rousselle, Fabrice; Moon, Bochang; Iglesias-Guitian, Jose A.; Adler,
  David; Mitchell, Kenny; Jarosz, Wojciech; Novak, Jan;

• Fast Shadow Map Rendering for Many Lights Settings
  Selgrad, Kai; Müller, Jonas; Reintges, Christian; Stamminger, Marc;

• Fast Filtering of Reflection Probes
  Manson, Josiah; Sloan, Peter-Pike;

• Adaptive Image-Space Sampling for Gaze-Contingent Real-time Rendering
  Stengel, Michael; Grogorick, Steve; Eisemann, Martin; Magnor, Marcus;

Morning Break

Paper Session: Materials at all Scales (Session chair: Johannes Hanika)

• Predicting Visual Perception of Material Structure in Virtual Environments
  Filip, J.; Vávra, R.; Havlíček, M.; Krupička, M.;

• A Robust and Flexible Real-Time Sparkle Effect
  Wang, Beibei; Bowles, Huw;

• Additional Progress Towards the Unification of Microfacet and Microflake Theories
  Dupuy, Jonathan; Heitz, Eric; d'Eon, Eugene;

• A General Micro-flake Model for Predicting the Appearance of Car Paint
  Ergun, Serkan Ergun, Serkan; Önel, Sermet; Ozturk, Aydin;

Lunch

Paper Session: Acceleration Techniques (Session chair: Vlastimil Havran)

• Constrained Convex Space Partition for Ray Tracing in Architectural Environments
  Maria, Maxime; Horna, Sebastien; Aveneau, Lilian;

• Stackless and Deep Partitioned Shadow Volumes
  Mora, Frédéric; Gerhards, Julien; Aveneau, Lilian; Ghazanfarpour, Djamchid;

• Node Culling Multi-Hit BVH Traversal
  Gribble, Christiaan; 

Afternoon Break

Paper Session: Light Transport - Part 2 (Session chair: Anton S. Kaplanyan)

• Subdivision Next-Event Estimation for Path-Traced Subsurface Scattering
  Koerner, David; Novak, Jan; Kutz, Peter; Habel, Ralf; Jarosz, Wojciech;

• Bi-Directional Polarised Light Transport
  Mojzík, Michal; Skřivan, Tomáš; Wilkie, Alexander; Křivánek, Jaroslav;

• Point-Based Light Transport for Participating Media with Refractive Boundaries
  Wang, Beibei; Gascuel, Jean-Dominique; Holzschuch, Nicolas; 

EGSR Closing Session

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