Automated Lighting Design For Photorealistic Rendering

Information

• Publication Type: Bachelor Thesis
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Modern Functional Analysis in Computer Graphics
• Date: 2014
• Date (Start): 1. October 2013
• Date (End): 1. February 2014
• Matrikelnummer: 0605836
• First Supervisor:
  • Michael Wimmer
  • Karoly Zsolnai-Fehér
• Keywords: global illumination, photorealistic rendering

Abstract

We present a novel technique to minimize the number of light sources in a virtual 3D scene without introducing any perceptible changes to it. The theoretical part of the thesis gives an overview on previous research in the field of automated lighting design, followed by an introduction to the theory of rendering and genetic algorithms. The implementation is done as extension called "Light Source Cleaner" to LuxRender, a physically based, open-source renderer. The algorithm adjusts the intensities of the light sources in a way that certain light sources can be canceled out, thus enabling to render a similar image with significantly less number of light sources, introducing a remarkable reduction to the execution time of scenes where many light sources are used.

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@bachelorsthesis{silvana_2014,
  title =      "Automated Lighting Design For Photorealistic Rendering",
  author =     "Silvana Podaras",
  year =       "2014",
  abstract =   "We present a novel technique to minimize the number of light
               sources in a virtual 3D scene without introducing any
               perceptible changes to it. The theoretical part of the
               thesis gives an overview on previous research in the field
               of automated lighting design, followed by an introduction to
               the theory of rendering and genetic  algorithms.  The
               implementation is done as extension called "Light Source
               Cleaner" to LuxRender, a physically based, open-source
               renderer. The algorithm adjusts the intensities of the light
               sources in a  way that certain light sources can be canceled
               out, thus enabling to render  a similar image with
               significantly less number of light sources,  introducing a
               remarkable reduction to the execution time of scenes where
               many light sources are used.",
  address =    "Favoritenstrasse 9-11/E193-02, A-1040 Vienna, Austria",
  school =     "Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna
               University of Technology ",
  keywords =   "global illumination, photorealistic rendering",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2014/silvana_2014/",
}