Invention Application
- Patent Title: REAL-TIME NEURAL NETWORK RADIANCE CACHING FOR PATH TRACING
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Application No.: US17340222Application Date: 2021-06-07
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Publication No.: US20220284657A1Publication Date: 2022-09-08
- Inventor: Thomas Müller , Fabrice Pierre Armand Rousselle , Jan Novák , Alexander Georg Keller
- Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Main IPC: G06T15/06
- IPC: G06T15/06 ; G06N3/04 ; G06N3/08 ; G06T15/50

Abstract:
A real-time neural radiance caching technique for path-traced global illumination is implemented using a neural network for caching scattered radiance components of global illumination. The neural (network) radiance cache handles fully dynamic scenes, and makes no assumptions about the camera, lighting, geometry, and materials. In contrast with conventional caching, the data-driven approach sidesteps many difficulties of caching algorithms, such as locating, interpolating, and updating cache points. The neural radiance cache is trained via online learning during rendering. Advantages of the neural radiance cache are noise reduction and real-time performance. Importantly, the runtime overhead and memory footprint of the neural radiance cache are stable and independent of scene complexity.
Public/Granted literature
- US11610360B2 Real-time neural network radiance caching for path tracing Public/Granted day:2023-03-21
Information query
IPC分类:
G | 物理 |
G06 | 计算;推算或计数 |
G06T | 一般的图像数据处理或产生 |
G06T15/00 | 3D〔三维〕图像的加工 |
G06T15/06 | .光线跟踪 |