BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Tokyo X-LIC-LOCATION:Asia/Tokyo BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0900 TZOFFSETTO:+0900 TZNAME:JST DTSTART:18871231T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T023312Z LOCATION:Hall B5 (2)\, B Block\, Level 5 DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20241203T164100 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20241203T165300 UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2024_sess110_papers_980@linklings.com SUMMARY:Volume Scattering Probability Guiding DESCRIPTION:Technical Papers\n\nKehan Xu (ETH Zürich); Sebastian Herholz ( Intel Corporation); Marco Manzi and Marios Papas (DisneyResearch|Studios); and Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios, ETH Zürich)\n\nSimulating the l ight transport of volumetric effects poses significant challenges and cost s, especially in the presence of heterogeneous volumes. Generating stochas tic paths for volume rendering involves multiple decisions, and previous w orks mainly focused on directional and distance sampling, where the volume scattering probability (VSP), i.e., the probability of scattering inside a volume, is indirectly determined as a byproduct of distance sampling. We demonstrate that direct control over the VSP can significantly improve ef ficiency and present an unbiased volume rendering algorithm based on an ex isting resampling framework for precise control over the VSP. Compared to the previous state-of-the-art, which can only increase the VSP without gua ranteeing to reach the desired value, our method also supports decreasing the VSP. We further present a data-driven guiding framework to efficiently learn and query an approximation of the optimal VSP everywhere in the sce ne without the need for user control.\nOur approach can easily be combined with existing path-guiding methods for directional sampling at minimal ov erhead and shows significant improvements over the state-of-the-art in var ious complex volumetric lighting scenarios.\n\nRegistration Category: Full Access, Full Access Supporter\n\nLanguage Format: English Language\n\nSes sion Chair: Michael Wimmer (TU Wien) URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2024/program/?id=papers_980&sess=sess110 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR