Rendering

MIT CSAIL Computer Graphics Group

Our research on rendering includes:

• Light transport
• Material appearance
• Visibility
• Real-time rendering
• Graphics hardware
• Computer Depiction (Non-Photorealistic Rendering)

Publications
	Apparent Ridges for Line Drawing Tilke Judd, Frédo Durand, Edward H. Adelson ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
	The Lightspeed Automatic Interactive Lighting Preview System Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Charlie Kilpatrick, Brian Smith, Doug Epps, Paul Green, Christophe Hery and Frédo Durand ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
	Implicit Visibility and Antiradiance for Interactive Global Illumination Carsten Dachsbacher, Marc Stamminger, George Drettakis, Frédo Durand ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
	Interactive Editing and Modeling of Bidirectional Texture Functions Jan Kautz, Solomon Boulos, Frédo Durand ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
	Efficient Reflectance and Visibility Approximations for Environment Map Rendering Paul Green, Jan Kautz, and Frédo Durand Proceedings of Eurographics 2007
	Texture Transfer Using Geometry Correlation Tom Mertens, Jan Kautz, Jiawen Chen, Philippe Bekaert and Frédo Durand Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2006.
	Statistical Acquisition of Texture Appearance Addy Ngan and Frédo Durand. Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2006.
	Image-driven Navigation of Analytical BRDF Models Addy Ngan, Frédo Durand, Wojciech Matusik. Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2006.
	View-Dependent Precomputed Light Transport Using Nonlinear Gaussian Function Approximations. Paul Green, Jan Kautz, Wojciech Matusik, Fredo Durand Symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games, 2006
	A Frequency analysis of Light Transport Frédo Durand, Nicolas Holzschuch, Cyril Soler, Eric Chan & François Sillion SIGGRAPH 2005
	Texture Design Using a Simplicial Complex of Morphable Textures Wojciech Matusik, Matthias Zwicker and Frédo Durand SIGGRAPH 2005
	A Reconfigurable Architecture for Load-Balanced Rendering Jiawen Chen, Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Matthias Zwicker, Kari Pulli and Frédo Durand SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Graphics Hardware 2005
	Defining Pictorial Style: Lessons from Linguistics and Computer Graphics John Willats and Frédo Durand Axiomathes, Volume 15, Number 2, 2005
	Experimental Analysis of BRDF Models Addy Ngan, Frédo Durand and Wojciech matusik Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2005
	Experimental Validation of Analytical BRDF Models. Addy Ngan, Frédo Durand, Wojciech Matusik. Technical Sketch, SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, California, August 2004.
	An Efficient Hybrid Shadow Rendering Algorithm Eric Chan and Frédo Durand Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2004
	Spherical Harmonic Gradients for Mid-Range Illumination T. Annen, J. Kautz, F. Durand, H.-P. Seidel Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2004
	Density Measure for Line-Drawing Simplification Stéphane Grabli, Frédo Durand, François Sillion Proceedings of Pacific Graphics - 2004
	Programmable Style for NPR Line Drawing Stéphane Grabli, Emmanuel Turquin, Frédo Durand, François Sillion Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2004 (The software is available online)
	An Interactive Artificial Ant Approach to Non-Photorealistic Rendering Yann Semet, Una-May O'Reilly, Frédo Durand GECCO'04: Genetic and Evolutionary COmputation Conference
	Dynamic Canvas for Non-Photorealistic Walkthroughs Matthieu Cunzi, Joëlle Thollot, Sylvain Paris, Gilles Debunne, Jean-Dominique Gascuel, Frédo Durand Graphics Interface 2003
	Erosion Based Visibility Preprocessing Xavier Décoret Gilles Debunne François Sillion Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2003
	Rendering Fake Soft Shadows with Smoothies Eric Chan and Frédo Durand Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2003
	A Physically-Based Nightsky Model Henrik Wann Jensen, Frédo Durand, Michael Stark, Simon Premoze, Julie Dorsey and Peter Shirley in the Proceedings of Siggraph'2001.
	Billboard Clouds for Extreme Model Simplification Xavier Décoret, Frédo Durand, François Sillion, Julie Dorsey SIGGRAPH 2003
	An Invitation to Discuss Computer Depiction Frédo Durand ACM/Eurographics Symp. NPAR'02.
	Decoupling Strokes and High-Level Attributes for Interactive Traditional Drawing Frédo Durand, Victor Ostromoukhov, Mathieu Miller, François Duranleau, and Julie Dorsey in the Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, June 2001.
	The Art and Science of Depiction Frédo Durand Unpublished manuscript, 2000. French version
	A Survey of Visibility for Walkthrough Applications Daniel Cohen-Or, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Cláudio T. Silva and Frédo Durand IEEE TVCG, accepted for publication.
	Some Thoughts on Visibility Frédo Durand. Introductory talk, Workshop on Visibility, Bonifacio, France, September 2000.
	A multidisciplinary survey of visibility Frédo Durand. in ACM Siggraph course notes Visibility, Problems, Techniques, and Applications, July 2000.
	Interactive Tone Mapping Frédo Durand and Julie Dorsey. Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 2000
	Conservative Visibility Preprocessing using Extended Projections. Frédo Durand, George Drettakis, Joëlle Thollot and Claude Puech. in the Proceedings of Siggraph'2000
	Fast and Accurate Hierarchical Radiosity Using Global Visibility Frédo Durand, George Drettakis and Claude Puech. ACM Transactions on Graphics, April 99. (preliminary version available as INRIA tech report 3446.)
	3D Visibility: Analytical study and Applications Frédo Durand PhD thesis, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, July 1999.