Papers and Presentations - The 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing

Papers and Presentations

Best Papers:

Optimizing Ray-Triangle Intersection via Automated Search
Andrew Kensler, Peter Shirley

Fast kd-tree Construction with an Adaptive Error Bounded Heuristic
Warren Hunt, William R. Mark, Gordon Stoll
[Presentation Slides]

Experiences with Streaming Construction of SAH KD-Trees
Stefan Popov, Johannes Günther, Hans-Peter Seidel, Philipp Slusallek

Design for Parallel Interactive Ray Tracing Systems
James Bigler, Abe Stephens, Steven G. Parker

Poster Session

Presentations:

On Fast Construction of Spatial Hierarchies for Ray Tracing
Vlastimil Havran, Robert Herzog, Hans-Peter Seidel
[Link to the paper] [Link to the slides (ppt)]

Keynote Address:	Ray tracing for the movie 'Cars' Per Christensen - Pixar Animation Studios [Presentation Slides] [Link to the paper]
Session 1: Novel Architectures	Estimating Performance of an Ray Tracing ASIC Design Sven Woop, Erik Brunvand, Philipp Slusallek Ray Tracing on the CELL Processor Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, Michael Scherbaum Heiko Friedrich [Presentation Slides] [Link to the paper]
Session 2: Intersections	Improving Ray Tracing Precision by World Space Intersection Computation Holger Dammertz, Alexander Keller * BEST PAPER * - Optimizing Ray-Triangle Intersection via Automated Search Andrew Kensler, Peter Shirley [Link to the paper] [Link to the slides]
Session 3: Dynamic Scenes	RT-DEFORM: Interactive Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes using BVHs Christian Lauterbach, Sung-Eui Yoon, David Tuft, Dinesh Manocha An Evaluation of Parallel Grid Construction for Ray Tracing Dynamic Scenes Thiago Ize, Ingo Wald, Chelsea Robertson, Steven G. Parker [Link to the paper] [Link to the slides]
Session 4a: kd-trees I	Omnidirectional Ray Tracing Traversal Algorithm for kd-trees Alexander Reshetov [Presentation Slides] On Building kd-Trees for Ray Tracing, and on doing that in O(N log N) Ingo Wald, Vlastimil Havran [Link to the paper]
Session 4b: kd-trees II	* BEST PAPER * - Fast kd-tree Construction with an Adaptive Error Bounded Heuristic Warren Hunt, William R. Mark, Gordon Stoll [Presentation Slides] * BEST PAPER * - Experiences with Streaming Construction of SAH KD-Trees Stefan Popov, Johannes Günther, Hans-Peter Seidel, Philipp Slusallek [Link to the paper] [bibtex-file] [slides (pdf)] [slides (ppt)]
Session 5: Large Data	GPU-Assisted Ray Casting Acceleration for Visualization of Large Scene Data Sets Daniel Balciunas, Lucas Dulley, Marcelo Zuffo The Quantized kd-Tree: Efficient Ray Tracing of Compressed Point Clouds Erik Hubo, Tom Mertens, Tom Haber, Philippe Bekaert Interactive Isosurface Ray Tracing of Large Octree Volumes Aaron Knoll, Ingo Wald, Steven Parker, Charles Hansen [Link to the paper] [Link to the slides]
Session 6: Importance Sampling	Filter Importance Sampling Manfred Ernst, Marc Stamminger, Gunther Greiner Global Importance Sampling of Glossy Surfaces using the Photon Map Joshua Steinhurst, Anselmo Lastra
Session 7: Surfaces	Incremental Raycasting of Piecewise Quadratic Surface on the GPU Carsten Stoll, Stefan Gumhold, Hans-Peter Seidel [Link to the paper] [Slides and videos] Ray Casting of Trimmed NURBS Surfaces on the GPU Hans-Friedrich Pabst, Jan P. Springer, Andre Schollmeyer, Robert Lenhardt, Christian Lessig, Bernd Froehlich [Link to the paper] [Link to the slides] Direct and Fast Ray Tracing of NURBS Surfaces Oliver Abert, Markus Geimer, Stefan Muller
Session 8: Systems	Terrain Guided Multi-Level Instancing of Highly Complex Plant Populations Andreas Dietrich, Gerd Marmitt, Philipp Slusallek Applying Ray Tracing for Virtual Reality and Industrial Design Ingo Wald, Andreas Dietrich, Carsten Benthin, Alexander Efremov, Tim Dahmen, Johannes Günther, Vlastimil Havran, Hans-Peter Seidel, Philipp Slusallek * BEST PAPER * - Design for Parallel Interactive Ray Tracing Systems James Bigler, Abe Stephens, Steven G. Parker