Registration / Continental Breakfast

Opening Remarks

Papers Session 1: Rendering on a Strict Ray Budget

• Gradient Estimation for Real-Time Adaptive Temporal Filtering
  Christoph Schied, Christoph Peters, Carsten Dachsbacher
  slides (pdf, 70 MB) | slides (pptx, 550 MB)
• Importance Sampling of Many Lights with Adaptive Tree Splitting
  Alejandro Conty, Christopher Kulla
  slides (pdf) | slides (web)
• View-Region Optimized Image-Based Scene Simplification
  Puneet Lall, Silviu Borac, Dave Richardson, Matt Pharr, Manfred Ernst
  slides (pdf)

Posters Fast-Forward

slides (pdf)

Lunch

Provided by HPG

Short Papers Session 1: Anti Aliasing

• Adaptive Temporal Antialiasing
  Adam Marrs, Josef Spjut, Holger Gruen, Rahul Sathe, Morgan McGuire
  slides (pdf, 50 MB) | slides (pptx, 20 MB)
• Correlation-Aware Semi-Analytic Visibility for Antialiased Rendering
  Cyril Crassin, Chris Wyman, Morgan McGuire, Aaron Lefohn
  slides (pdf)
• Deferred Adaptive Compute Shading
  Ian Mallett, Cem Yuksel
  slides (pdf) | slides (odp)
• Detecting Aliasing Artifacts in Image Sequences Using Deep Neural Networks
  Anjul Patney, Aaron Lefohn
  slides (pdf, 26 MB) | slides (pptx, 622 MB)

Afternoon Break

Panel Session: High-Performance Graphics for Training and Validating Autonomous Vehicles

Panelists:

• Gavriel State, NVIDIA
  slides (pdf)
• German Ros, Intel
  slides (pdf, 25 MB) | slides (pptx, 80 MB)
• Jose De Oliveira, Unity Technologies
  slides (pdf, 31 MB) | slides (pptx, 239 MB)
• Philipp Slusallek, DFKI
  slides (pdf)
• Yongjoon Lee, Zoox

Poster Session

• Massive Networks – Visualising Very Large-Scale Graphs in Immersive Environments
  Daniel Filonik, Dominic Branchaud, Robert Lawther, Piotr Szul, Alex Collins, Tomasz Bednarz
  abstract | poster
• Hybrid Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion
  Louis Bavoil, Edward Liu, Peter Shirley, Morgan McGuire
  poster
• A 2D to 3D Video Converter using Optical Flow Information and Least Squares Regression
  Hui-Yun Lee, Jyh-Da Wei
  abstract | poster
• Blender based Rendering-as-a-Service Platform for High Performance Computing Clusters
  Milan Jaros, Petr Strakos, Lubomir Riha
  abstract | poster
• Energy Consumption Optimization of Rendering in Blender Cycles on x86 Architectures
  Lubomir Riha, Milan Jaros, Ondrej Vysocky, Petr Strakos
  abstract | poster

Keynote 1

Game Ray Tracing: State-of-the-Art and Open Problems

Colin Barré-Brisebois, Electronic Arts SEED
slides (pdf)

Morning Break

Papers Session 2: Fast Vertices

• A Fast Method to Calculate the Volumetric Divergence Metric for Evaluating the Accuracy of the Extracted Isosurface
  Cuilan Wang
  slides (pdf) | slides (pptx)
• On-the-fly Vertex Reuse for Parallel Software Geometry Processing
  Michael Kenzel, Bernhard Kerbl, Wolfgang Tatzgern, Elena Ivanchenko, Dieter Schmalstieg, Markus Steinberger
  slides (pdf) | slides (pptx, 46 MB)
• Revisiting the Vertex Cache: Understanding and Optimizing Vertex Processing on the modern GPU
  Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Kenzel, Elena Ivanchenko, Dieter Schmalstieg, Markus Steinberger
  slides (pdf) | slides (pptx)

Lunch

Provided by HPG

Short Papers Session 2: Ray Traversal, Transparency, and GPU Computing

• Brook GLES Pi: Democratising Accelerator Programming Education
  Matina Maria Trompouki, Leonidas Kosmidis
  slides (pdf) | slides (pptx)
• Compressed-Leaf Bounding Volume Hierarchies
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, Sven Woop, Attila Áfra
  slides (pdf) | slides (pptx)
• CPU-Style SIMD Ray Traversal on GPUs
  Alexander Lier, Marc Stamminger, Kai Selgrad
  slides (pdf)
• Moment Transparency
  Brian Sharpe
  slides (pdf, 23 MB)

Afternoon Break

Papers Session 3: Make Some Noise

• Fast Generation of Poisson-Disk Samples on Mesh Surfaces by Progressive Sample Projection
  Tong Wang, Reiji Suda
  slides (pdf, 92 MB) | slides (pptx, 27 MB)
• High-Performance By-Example Noise using a Histogram-Preserving Blending Operator
  Eric Heitz, Fabrice Neyret
  slides (pdf)
• Non-periodic Tiling of Procedural Noise Functions
  Aleksandr Kirillov
  slides (pdf, 298 MB) | slides (pptx, 21 MB)

Break

Social Event: Banquet at Grouse Mountain

Lupins Cafe on the first floor of the Peak Chalet on Grouse Mountain.
Banquet details and schedule can be found on our venue page.

Keynote 2

Deep Learning: The Hype, the Magic, and the Challenges

Alyosha Efros, UC Berkeley
slides (pdf)

Morning Break

Hot3D Session

• Cold Chips: ART’s RenderDrive Architecture – Ray Tracing Hardware from before the GPU
  Andrew Garrard, Samsung
  slides (pdf) | slides (pptx)
• Accelerating GPU Inferencing with DirectML and DirectX 12
  Shrinath Shanbhag, Microsoft
  slides (pdf)
• Falcor and how it Helps our Rendering Research
  Nir Benty, NVIDIA
  slides (pdf, 102 MB) | slides (pptx, 157 MB)

Lunch

Provided by HPG

Papers Session 4: Building Ray Tracers

• A High-Resolution Compression Scheme for Ray Tracing Subdivision Surfaces with Displacement
  Alexander Lier, Magdalena Martinek, Marc Stamminger, Kai Selgrad
  slides (pdf)
• Phantom Ray-Hair Intersector
  Alexander Reshetov, David Luebke
  slides (pdf, 18 MB) | slides (pptx, 511 MB)
• PLOCTree: A Fast, High-Quality Hardware BVH Builder
  Timo Viitanen, Matias Koskela, Pekka Jääskeläinen, Aleksi Tervo, Jarmo Takala
  slides (pdf) | slides (pptx)

Afternoon Break

Best Paper Awards and Wrapup

HPG Town Hall