HPG 2025 Student Competition

This year, the HPG Student Competition honors one of the most influential HPG papers from the last 10 years, SVGF from 2017:

Spatiotemporal Variance-Guided Filtering: Real-Time Reconstruction for Path-Traced Global Illumination by Schied et al., https://research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/publication/schied2017spatiotemporal.

The paper has over 100 citations and more than a thousand downloads just from the ACM digital library. It also won the Best Paper prize. Even though there are many follow-up works, the original SVGF has survived the test-of-time and is still very relevant today.

This year, we call upon submissions of original implementations or applications of the SVGF algorithm or in combination with the SVGF with other techniques.

We are mainly looking for creativity and originality, but we also want the participants to take into account the cost of their contributions in several aspects.

We will judge the submission based on the following:

Originality (main component)
Brevity
Performance
Memory use
Joule per pixel (if you can specify this)
A supporting poster explaining your work

The competition is open to all students. This includes applied science and Ph.D. / doctoral students.

Prizes

The three best submissions will be invited to join us on stage at HPG’25 in Copenhagen. They will get free registration for HPG‘25. Other prizes may become available; these will be announced later.