Ingo Wald's publications

If you want to know which of these papers are the most cited ones, have a look at my google scholar profile.

• Extending a C like Language for Portable SIMD Programming
  Roland Leissa, Sebastian Hack, and Ingo Wald
  PPoPP 12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

• Combining Single and Packet Ray Tracing for Arbitrary Ray Distributions on the Intel(R) MIC Architecture
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, Sven Woop, Manfred Ernst, and William R Mark
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (accepted for publication)
  [bib entry]
  

  

Articles in Conference Proceedings (2011)

• Active Thread Compaction for GPU Path Tracing
  Ingo Wald
  Proceedings of High Performance Graphics 2011, 2011
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

• Efficient Stack-less BVH Traversal for Ray Tracing
  Michael Hapala, Tomas Davidovic, Ingo Wald, Vlastimil Havran, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings 27th Spring Conference of Computer Graphics (SCCG) 2011, 2011, pages 29-34
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

• Full-Resolution Interactive CPU Volume Rendering with Coherent BVH Traversal
  Aaron Knoll, Sebastian Thelen, Ingo Wald, Charles D Hansen, Hans Hagen, and Michael E Papka
  Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2011, 2011, (accepted for publication)
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Fast Construction of SAH BVHs on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) Architecture
  Ingo Wald
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2010, (to appear)
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• State of the Art in Ray Tracing Animated Scenes
  Ingo Wald, William R Mark, Johannes Günther, Solomon Boulos, Thiago Ize, Warren Hunt, Steven G Parker, and Peter Shirley
  Computer Graphics Forum 28(6), 2009, pages 1691-1722
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Coherent Multiresolution Isosurface Ray Tracing
  Aaron Knoll, Charles D Hansen, and Ingo Wald
  The Visual Computer 25(6), 2009, pages 209-225
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

Articles in Conference Proceedings (2009)

• Efficient ray traced soft shadows using multi-frusta tracing
  Carsten Benthin, and Ingo Wald
  Proceedings of High-Performance Graphics 2009 (HPG09)
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

Technical Reports (2009)

• Screen Space Spherical Harmonics Filters for Instant Global Illumination
  Benjamin Segovia, and Ingo Wald
  Intel Corp, Technical Report # , 2007
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Fast, Parallel, and Asynchronous Construction of BVHs for Ray Tracing Animated Scenes
  Ingo Wald, Thiago Ize, and Steven G Parker
  Computers and Graphics 32(1), 2008, pages 3-13
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Sequential Monte Carlo Adaptation in Low-Anisotropy Participating Media
  Vincent Pegoraro, Ingo Wald, and Steven G Parker
  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the 19th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 27(4), 2008, pages 1097-1104
  [bib entry] [smca.pdf]
  

  

Articles in Conference Proceedings (2008)

• Ray tracing with the BSP tree
  Thiago Ize, Ingo Wald, and Steven G Parker
  Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, 2008
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Adaptive Ray Packet Reordering
  Solomon Boulos, Ingo Wald, and Carsten Benthin
  Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2008, 2008
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Getting Rid of Packets -- Efficient SIMD Single-Ray Traversal using Multi-Branching BVHs
  Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, and Solomon Boulos
  Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2008, 2008
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Coherent Multiresolution Isosurface Ray Tracing
  Aaron Knoll, Charles D Hansen, and Ingo Wald
  SCI Institute, University of Utah, Technical Report #UUSCI-2007-001, 2007, (submitted for publication)
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

Journal Articles (2007)

• Interactive Isosurface Ray Tracing of Time-Varying Tetrahedral Volumes
  Ingo Wald, Heiko Friedrich, Aaron Knoll, and Charles D Hansen
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2007, (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization/InfoVis 2007), (to appear)
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Ray Tracing Deformable Scenes using Dynamic Bounding Volume Hierarchies
  Ingo Wald, Solomon Boulos, and Peter Shirley
  ACM Transactions on Graphics 26(1), 2007
  [bib entry] [pdf] [movie(mov)]
  

  

• A Coherent Grid Traversal Approach to Visualizing Particle-based Simulation Data
  Christiaan P Gribble, Thiago Ize, Andrew Kensler, Ingo Wald, and Steven G Parker
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2007, (to appear)
  [bib entry] [pdf] [JP8 movie (mov)] [JP8.h264 movie (mov)]
  

  

Articles in Conference Proceedings (2007)

• On fast Construction of SAH based Bounding Volume Hierarchies
  Ingo Wald
  Proceedings of the 2007 Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Interactive Ray Tracing of Arbitrary Implicit Functions
  Aaron Knoll, Younis Hijazi, Charles D Hansen, Ingo Wald, and Hans Hagen
  Proceedings of the 2007 Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, 2007
  [bib entry] [pdf] [divx]
  

  

• State of the Art in Ray Tracing Animated Scenes
  Ingo Wald, William R Mark, Johannes Günther, Solomon Boulos, Thiago Ize, Warren Hunt, Steven G Parker, and Peter Shirley
  Eurographics 2007 State of the Art Reports
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

• Interactive Iso-Surface Ray Tracing of Massive Volumetric Data Sets
  Heiko Friedrich, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the 2007 Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Asynchronous BVH Construction for Ray Tracing Dynamic Scenes on Parallel Multi-Core Architectures
  Thiago Ize, Ingo Wald, and Steven G Parker
  Proceedings of the 2007 Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Packet-based Whitted and Distribution Ray Tracing
  Solomon Boulos, Dave Edwards, J Dylan Lacewell, Joe Kniss, Jan Kautz, Ingo Wald, and Peter Shirley
  Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2007
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

Technical Reports (2007)

• SIMD Ray Stream Tracing - SIMD Ray Traversal with Generalized Ray Packets and On-the-fly Re-Ordering
  Ingo Wald, Christiaan P Gribble, Solomon Boulos, and Andrew Kensler
  SCI Institute, university of Utah, Technical Report #UUSCI-2007-012, 2007
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

• Packet-based Ray Tracing of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces
  Carsten Benthin, Solomon Boulos, J Dylan Lacewell, and Ingo Wald
  SCI Institute, University of Utah, Technical Report #UUSCI-2007-011, 2007
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

• Interactive Isosurface Ray Tracing of Time-Varying Tetrahedral Volumes
  Ingo Wald, Heiko Friedrich, Aaron Knoll, and Charles D Hansen
  SCI Institute, University of Utah, Technical Report #UUSCI-2007-003, 2007, An extended version of this Article got published via TVCG/Vis2007
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Interactive Ray Tracing of Arbitrary Implicit Functions
  Aaron Knoll, Younis Hijazi, Charles D Hansen, Ingo Wald, and Hans Hagen
  SCI Institute, University of Utah, Technical Report #UUSCI-2007-002, 2007
  [bib entry] [pdf] [divx]
  

  

• Ray Tracing Animated Scenes using Coherent Grid Traversal
  Ingo Wald, Thiago Ize, Andrew Kensler, Aaron Knoll, and Steven G Parker
  ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2006, pages 485-493, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006)
  [bib entry] [pdf] [movie(mov)] [slides (ppt)] [fast forward slides (ppt)] [movie clip for slides (avi)]
  

  


[bib entry] [pdf] [movie(avi)]




• Techniques for Interactive Ray Tracing of Bezier Surfaces
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Journal of Graphics Tools 11(2), 2006, pages 1-16
  [bib entry]
  

• Realtime Ray Tracing and Interactive Global Illumination
  Ingo Wald
  IT - Information Technology, 2006, (invited article, in german)
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  
  This article has originally appeared in http://www.it-information-technology.de

  

Articles in Conference Proceedings (2006)

• Interactive Isosurface Ray Tracing of Large Octree Volumes
  Aaron Knoll, Ingo Wald, Steven G Parker, and Charles D Hansen
  Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, 2006, pages 115-124
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Ray Tracing on the CELL Processor
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, Michael Scherbaum, and Heiko Friedrich
  Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, 2006, pages 25-23
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• An Evaluation of Parallel Grid Construction for Ray Tracing Dynamic Scenes
  Thiago Ize, Ingo Wald, Chelsea Robertson, and Steven G Parker
  Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, 2006, pages 27-55
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• On building fast kd-trees for ray tracing, and on doing that in O(N log N)
  Ingo Wald, and Vlastimil Havran
  Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, 2006, pages 61-69
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

• A Ray Tracing based Virtual Reality Framework for Industrial Design
  Ingo Wald, Andreas Dietrich, Carsten Benthin, Alexander Efremov, Tim Dahmen, Johannes Günther, Vlastimil Havran, Philipp Slusallek, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, 2006, pages 177-185
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• An Application of Scalable Massive Model Interaction using Shared Memory Systems
  Abraham Stephens, Solomon Boulos, James Bigler, Ingo Wald, and Steven G Parker
  Proceedings of the 2006 Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2006, pages 19-26
  [bib entry] [pdf] [slides(ppt)] [slides(pdf)]
  

  

• Realtime Ray Tracing for Advanced Visualization in the Aerospace Industry
  Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, Holger Schmidt, Kristian Sons, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the 5th Paderborner Workshop Augmented and Virtual Reality in der Produktentstehung, 2006
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

Technical Reports (2006)

• Geometric and Arithmetic Culling Methods for Entire Ray Packets
  Solomon Boulos, Ingo Wald, and Peter Shirley
  School of Computing, University of Utah, Technical Report #UUCS-06-010, 2006
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

• Ray Tracing Deformable Scenes using Dynamic Bounding Volume Hierarchies (unrevised version)
  Ingo Wald, Solomon Boulos, and Peter Shirley
  SCI Institute, University of Utah, Technical Report #UUSCI-2006-023, 2006, A Revised version of this Techreport got accepted at ACM TOG 26, 1, 2007. Pplease refer to the revised version.
  [bib entry] [revised TOG submission] [original siggraph submission (pdf)] [movie(mov)]
  

  

• Interactive Distribution Ray Tracing
  Solomon Boulos, Dave Edwards, J Dylan Lacewell, Joe Kniss, Jan Kautz, Peter Shirley, and Ingo Wald
  SCI Institute, University of Utah, Technical Report #UUSCI-2006-022, 2006
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Faster Isosurface Ray Tracing using Implicit KD-Trees
  Ingo Wald, Heiko Friedrich, Gerd Marmitt, Philipp Slusallek, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2005
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Realtime Ray Tracing and Interactive Global Illumination
  Ingo Wald
  Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2005, GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), 2005
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

Articles in Conference Proceedings (2005)

• Efficient Acquisition and Realistic Rendering of Car Paint
  Johannes Günther, Tongbo Chen, Michael Goesele, Ingo Wald, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  Proceedings of 10th International Fall Workshop - Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV), 2005, pages 487-494
  [bib entry] [pdf] [web site] [video (main)] [video (sparkles)]
  

  

• Large-Scale CAD Model Visualization on a Scalable Shared-Memory Architecture
  Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of 10th International Fall Workshop - Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV), 2005, pages 303-310
  [bib entry] [pdf] [poster (pdf)]
  

  

• Interactive Ray Tracing of Point Based Models
  Ingo Wald, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  Proceedings of 2005 Symposium on Point Based Graphics, 2005
  [bib entry] [pdf] [slides(ppt)]
  

  

• Precomputed Light Sets for Fast High Quality Global Illumination
  Johannes Günther, Ingo Wald, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  ACM SIGGRAPH 2005: Sketches and Applications, 2005
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Interactive Ray Tracing of Point Based Models
  Ingo Wald, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  ACM SIGGRAPH 2005: Sketches and Applications, 2005
  [bib entry] [pdf] [slides(ppt)]
  

  

Technical Reports (2005)

• High-Quality Global Illumination Walkthroughs using Discretized Incident Radiance Maps
  Ingo Wald
  SCI Institute, University of Utah, Technical Report #UUSCI-2005-010, 2005
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

Other Publications (sketches, posters, courses, etc.) (2005)

• Realtime Ray Tracing and Interactive Global Illumination
  Ingo Wald
  PhD thesis, Saarland University, 2004
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Balancing Considered Harmful -- Faster Photon Mapping using the Voxel Volume Heuristic
  Ingo Wald, Johannes Günther, and Philipp Slusallek
  Computer Graphics Forum 22(3), 2004, (Proceedings of Eurographics, to appear)
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Interaktive Visualisierung eines hoch komplexen Boeing 777 Modells (Cover Image)
  Andreas Dietrich, and Ingo Wald
  Informatik Spektrum 27(4), 2004, pages 394-394
  [bib entry] [about the cover (german)]
  

  

• Interaktive Darstellung hoch detaillierter Landschaftsszenen (Cover Image)
  Andreas Dietrich, and Ingo Wald
  Informatik Spektrum, 2004
  [bib entry] [about the cover (german)]
  

  

Articles in Conference Proceedings (2004)

• Interactive Ray Tracing of Free-Form Surfaces
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of Afrigraph, 2004, pages 99-106
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Fast and Accurate Ray-Voxel Intersection Techniques for Iso-Surface Ray Tracing
  Gerd Marmitt, Andreas Kleer, Ingo Wald, Heiko Friedrich, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV), 2004, pages 429-435
  [bib entry] [pdf] [poster]
  

  

• Realtime Caustics using Distributed Photon Mapping
  Johannes Günther, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2004, (to appear)
  [bib entry] [pdf] [video(divx)] [slides(ppt)]
  

  

• An Interactive Out-of-Core Rendering Framework for Visualizing Massively Complex Models
  Ingo Wald, Andreas Dietrich, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2004, (to appear)
  [bib entry] [pdf] [video(divx)] [slides(ppt)]
  

  

• Interactive Visualization of Exceptionally Complex Industrial Datasets
  Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches and Applications, 2004, (to appear)
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• VRML Scene Graphs on an Interactive Ray Tracing Engine
  Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, Markus Wagner, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proc. of IEEE VR 2004, 2004, pages 109-116
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• A Scalable Approach to Interactive Global Illumination
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS), 2003, pages 621-630
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Interactive Distributed Ray Tracing on Commodity PC Clusters - State of the Art and Practical Applications
  Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, Andreas Dietrich, and Philipp Slusallek
  Lecture Notes on Computer Science (Proceedings of EuroPar 03), pages 499-508
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

Articles in Conference Proceedings (2003)

• Distributed Interactive Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes
  Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics (PVG), 2003
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Interactive Global Illumination in Highly Occluded Environments
  Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 2003
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Realtime Ray Tracing and its use for Interactive Global Illumination
  Ingo Wald, Timothy J. Purcell, Jörg Schmittler, Carsten Benthin, and Philipp Slusallek
  EUROGRAPHICS State of the Art Reports, 2003
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Streaming Video Textures for Mixed Reality Applications in Interactive Ray Tracing Environments
  Andreas Pomi, Gerd Marmitt, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), 2003
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• The OpenRT Application Programming Interface - Towards A Common API for Interactive Ray Tracing
  Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the 2003 OpenSG Symposium, 2003, pages 23-31
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

• Interactive Global Illumination using Fast Ray Tracing
  Ingo Wald, Thomas Kollig, Carsten Benthin, Alexander Keller, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the 13th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Rendering, 2002
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Interactive Headlight Simulation - A Case Study for Distributed Interactive Ray Tracing
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, Tim Dahmen, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (PGV), 2002, pages 81-88
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• SaarCOR - A Hardware Architecture for Ray Tracing
  Jörg Schmittler, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS Graphics Hardware 2002, 2002
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

Technical Reports (2002)

• OpenRT - A Scalable and Flexible Rendering Engine for Interactive 3D Graphics
  Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, and Philipp Slusallek
  Computer Graphics Group, Saarland University, Technical Report #TR 2002-01, 2002
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Interactive Rendering with Coherent Ray Tracing
  Ingo Wald, Philipp Slusallek, Carsten Benthin, and Markus Wagner
  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS) 20(3), 2001, pages 153-164
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

Articles in Conference Proceedings (2001)

• State-of-the-Art in Interactive Ray Tracing
  Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Eurographics State of the Art Reports, 2001, pages 21-42
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Interactive Distributed Ray Tracing of Highly Complex Models
  Ingo Wald, Philipp Slusallek, and Carsten Benthin
  Rendering Techniques 2001 - Proceedings of the 12th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Rendering, 2001, pages 274-285
  [bib entry] [pdf]
  

  

• Efficient Importance Sampling Techniques for the Photon Map
  Alexander Keller, and Ingo Wald
  Vision, Modelling, and Visualization 2000, 2000, pages 271-279
  [bib entry] [pdf] [ppt]
  

• Photorealistic Rendering using the Photon Map
  Masters Thesis, University of Kaiserslautern, Sep.1999
  [pdf]