Date and Place: Thursdays and hybrid (live in 32-349/online via Zoom). For detailed dates see below!
Content
In the Scientific Computing Seminar we host talks of guests and members of the SciComp team as well as students of mathematics, computer science and engineering. Everybody interested in the topics is welcome.
List of Talks
Event Information:
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Thu07Jul2016
SC Seminar: Valentin Fütterling
11:30SC Seminar Room 32-349
Valentin Fütterling, Fraunhofer ITWM
Title:
Photo-realistic image synthesis with Path Tracing – An optimization problem?Abstract:
Path tracing is a versatile, physically-based algorithm to generate photo-realistic images from virtual objects and environments.
Applications are wide-spread in movie production, product design and advertising. A promising new area is emerging with virtual and augmented reality. The basis of Path Tracing is Monte Carlo Integration which requires a non-uniform distribution of samples over the integration domain in order to minimize noise and maximize efficiency. This talk will give an introduction to the Path Tracing algorithm, and pose the question whether the method can profit from formulating it as an optimization problem.