article

Perceptual illumination components: a new approach to efficient, high quality global illumination rendering

Authors:

William A. Stokes,

James A. Ferwerda,

Donald P. GreenbergAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 23, Issue 3

Pages 742 - 749

https://doi.org/10.1145/1015706.1015795

Published: 01 August 2004 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new perceptual metric for efficient, high quality, global illumination rendering. The metric is based on a rendering-by-components framework in which the direct, and indirect diffuse, glossy, and specular light transport paths are separately computed and then composited to produce an image. The metric predicts the perceptual importances of the computationally expensive indirect illumination components with respect to image quality. To develop the metric we conducted a series of psychophysical experiments in which we measured and modeled the perceptual importances of the components. An important property of this new metric is that it predicts component importances from inexpensive estimates of the reflectance properties of a scene, and therefore adds negligible overhead to the rendering process. This perceptual metric should enable the development of an important new class of efficient global-illumination rendering systems that can intelligently allocate limited computational resources, to provide high quality images at interactive rates.

Supplementary Material

MOV File (pps065.mov)

Download
11.41 KB

References

[1]

BLINN, J. F. 1977. Models of light reflection for computer synthesized pictures. vol. 11, 192--198.

Digital Library

[2]

BOLIN, M. R., AND MEYER, G. W. 1995. A frequency based ray tracer. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 95, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 409--418.

Digital Library

[3]

BOLIN, M. R., AND MEYER, G. W. 1998. A perceptually based adaptive sampling algorithm. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 299--310.

Digital Library

[4]

DUMONT, R., PELLACINI, F., AND FERWERDA, J. A. 2003. Perceptually-driven decision theory for interactive realistic rendering. ACM Transactions on Graphics 22, 2 (Apr.), 152--181.

Digital Library

[5]

GADDIPATTI, A., MACHIRAJU, R., AND YAGEL, R. 1997. Steering image generation with wavelet based perceptual metric. Computer Graphics Forum 16, 3 (Aug.), 241--252.

[6]

GIBSON, S., AND HUBBOLD, R. J. 1997. Perceptually-driven radiosity. Computer Graphics Forum 16, 2, 129--141.

[7]

GIBSON, S., AND HUBBOLD, R. J. 2000. A perceptually-driven parallel algorithm for efficient radiosity simulation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 6, 3 (July), 220--235.

Digital Library

[8]

GUILFORD, J. 1954. Psychometric methods. McGraw-Hill, New York.

[9]

HABER, J., MYSZKOWSKI, K., YAMAUCHI, H., AND SEIDEL, H.-P. 2001. Perceptually guided corrective splatting. Computer Graphics Forum 20, 3, 142--152.

[10]

HEDLEY, D., WORRALL, A., AND PADDON, D. 1997. Selective culling of discontinuity lines. In Eurographics Rendering Workshop 1997, 69--80.

Digital Library

[11]

MEYER, G. W., AND LIU, A. 1992. Color spatial acuity control of a screen subdivision image synthesis algorithm. In Proceedings of SPIE 92, Human Vision, Visual Processing, and Digital Display, 387--399.

[12]

MITCHELL, D. P. 1987. Generating antialiased images at low sampling densities. In Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 87), vol. 21, 65--72.

Digital Library

[13]

MYSZKOWSKI, K., ROKITA, P., AND TAWARA, T. 2000. Perception-based fast rendering and antialiasing of walkthrough sequences. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 6, 4, 360--379.

Digital Library

[14]

MYSZKOWSKI, K., TAWARA, T., AKAMINE, H., AND SEIDEL, H.-P. 2001. Perception-guided global illumination solution for animation rendering. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2001, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 221--230.

Digital Library

[15]

MYSZKOWSKI, K. 1998. The visible differences predictor: Applications to global illumination problems. In Eurographics Rendering Workshop 1998, 223--236.

[16]

NEUMANN, L. O., MATKOVIC, K., AND PURGATHOFER, W. 1998. Perception based color image difference. Computer Graphics Forum 17, 3, 233--242.

[17]

PELI, E. 1991. Contrast in complex images. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7, 10, 2032--2040.

[18]

PELLACINI, F., FERWERDA, J. A., AND GREENBERG, D. P. 2000. Toward a psychophysically-based light reflection model for image synthesis. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 55--64.

Digital Library

[19]

POYNTON, C. A. 1996. A Technical Introduction to Digital Video. Wiley, New York.

Digital Library

[20]

PRIKRYL, J., AND PURGATHOFER, W. 1999. Perceptually-driven termination for stochastic radiosity. In Seventh International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization (Winter School on Computer Graphics).

[21]

RAMASUBRAMANIAN, M., PATTANAIK, S. N., AND GREENBERG, D. P. 1999. A perceptually based physical error metric for realistic image synthesis. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 73--82.

Digital Library

[22]

SHIRLEY, P. 1990. A ray tracing method for illumination calculation in diffuse-specular scenes. In Graphics Interface '90, 205--212.

Digital Library

[23]

TAMSTORF, R., AND JENSEN, H. W. 1997. Adaptive sampling and bias estimation in path tracing. In Eurographics Rendering Workshop 1997, 285--296.

Digital Library

[24]

TOLE, P., PELLACINI, F., WALTER, B., AND GREENBERG, D. P. 2002. Interactive global illumination in dynamic scenes. ACM Transactions on Graphics 21, 3 (July), 537--546.

Digital Library

[25]

TORGERSON, W. S. 1958. Theory and methods of scaling. Wiley, New York.

[26]

VOLEVICH, V., MYSZKOWSKI, K., KHODULEY, A., AND KOPYLOV, E. A. 1999. Perceptually-informed progressive global illumination solution. Tech rep., University of Aizu, Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan, Feb.

[27]

WALTER, B., HUBBARD, P. M., SHIRLEY, P., AND GREENBERG, D. F. 1997. Global illumination using local linear density estimation. ACM Transactions on Graphics 16, 3 (July), 217--259.

Digital Library

[28]

WALTER, B., PATTANAIK, S. N., AND GREENBERG, D. P. 2002. Using perceptual texture masking for efficient image synthesis. Computer Graphics Forum 21, 3, 393--399.

[29]

WARD, G. J. 1992. Measuring and modeling anisotropic reflection. In Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 92), vol. 26, 265--272.

Digital Library

[30]

YEE, H., PATTANAIK, S., AND GREENBERG, D. P. 2001. Spatiotemporal sensitivity and visual attention for efficient rendering of dynamic environments. ACM Transactions on Graphics 20, 1 (Jan.), 39--65.

Digital Library

Cited By

Li LChen CPeng JZhang R(2022)Predicting visual difference maps for computer‐generated images by integrating human visual system model and deep learningIET Image Processing10.1049/ipr2.1268117:3(901-915)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2022
https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12681
Liu TGao JLei Z(2020)An Approach to Global Illumination Calculation Based on Hybrid Cone TracingIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2020.29945978(92061-92071)Online publication date: 2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2994597
Armas-Cervantes ADumas MRosa MMaaradji A(2019)Local Concurrency Detection in Business Process Event LogsACM Transactions on Internet Technology10.1145/328918119:1(1-23)Online publication date: 21-Jan-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3289181
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Perceptual illumination components: a new approach to efficient, high quality global illumination rendering
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation

Recommendations

Perceptual illumination components: a new approach to efficient, high quality global illumination rendering
SIGGRAPH '04: ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers

In this paper we introduce a new perceptual metric for efficient, high quality, global illumination rendering. The metric is based on a rendering-by-components framework in which the direct, and indirect diffuse, glossy, and specular light transport ...
Perceptual influence of approximate visibility in indirect illumination

In this article we evaluate the use of approximate visibility for efficient global illumination. Traditionally, accurate visibility is used in light transport. However, the indirect illumination we perceive on a daily basis is rarely of high-frequency ...
Splatting indirect illumination
I3D '06: Proceedings of the 2006 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games

In this paper we present a novel method for plausible real-time rendering of indirect illumination effects for diffuse and non-diffuse surfaces. The scene geometry causing indirect illumination is captured by an extended shadow map, as proposed in ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Transactions on Graphics

ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 23, Issue 3

August 2004

684 pages

ISSN:0730-0301

EISSN:1557-7368

DOI:10.1145/1015706

Editor:
John C. Hart

Issue’s Table of Contents

Copyright © 2004 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 01 August 2004

Published in TOG Volume 23, Issue 3

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

66
Total Citations
View Citations
1,301
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)7
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 22 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Li LChen CPeng JZhang R(2022)Predicting visual difference maps for computer‐generated images by integrating human visual system model and deep learningIET Image Processing10.1049/ipr2.1268117:3(901-915)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2022
https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12681
Liu TGao JLei Z(2020)An Approach to Global Illumination Calculation Based on Hybrid Cone TracingIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2020.29945978(92061-92071)Online publication date: 2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2994597
Armas-Cervantes ADumas MRosa MMaaradji A(2019)Local Concurrency Detection in Business Process Event LogsACM Transactions on Internet Technology10.1145/328918119:1(1-23)Online publication date: 21-Jan-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3289181
Yu ZYi FMa CWang ZGuo BChen L(2018)Fine-grained Emotion Role Detection Based on Retweet InformationACM Transactions on Internet Technology10.1145/319182019:1(1-23)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3191820
Seo H(2018)Compact Software Implementation of Public-Key Cryptography on MSP430XACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems10.1145/319085517:3(1-12)Online publication date: 22-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3190855
Hong DLiu YFu SWu JHsu W(2018)Improving SIMD Parallelism via Dynamic Binary TranslationACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems10.1145/317345617:3(1-27)Online publication date: 12-Feb-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173456
Seo HJeong ILee JKim W(2018)Compact Implementations of ARX-Based Block Ciphers on IoT ProcessorsACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems10.1145/317345517:3(1-16)Online publication date: 6-Feb-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173455
Peng CKang ZHu YCheng JCheng Q(2017)Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Integrated Graph and Feature LearningACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology10.1145/29873788:3(1-29)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2987378
Gao YZhang HZhao XYan S(2017)Event Classification in Microblogs via Social TrackingACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology10.1145/29675028:3(1-14)Online publication date: 8-Feb-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2967502
Nie LZhang LWang MHong RFarseev AChua T(2017)Learning User Attributes via Mobile Social Multimedia AnalyticsACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology10.1145/29631058:3(1-19)Online publication date: 14-Apr-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2963105
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Article

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Issue’s Table of Contents