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| author | Figueiredo, Pedro He, Qihao Bako, Steve Kalantari, Nima Khademi |
| author_facet | Figueiredo, Pedro He, Qihao Bako, Steve Kalantari, Nima Khademi |
| contents | We propose a neural approach for estimating spatially varying light selection distributions to improve importance sampling in Monte Carlo rendering, particularly for complex scenes with many light sources. Our method uses a neural network to predict the light selection distribution at each shading point based on local information, trained by minimizing the KL-divergence between the learned and target distributions in an online manner. To efficiently manage hundreds or thousands of lights, we integrate our neural approach with light hierarchy techniques, where the network predicts cluster-level distributions and existing methods sample lights within clusters. Additionally, we introduce a residual learning strategy that leverages initial distributions from existing techniques, accelerating convergence during training. Our method achieves superior performance across diverse and challenging scenes. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Neural Importance Sampling of Many Lights Figueiredo, Pedro He, Qihao Bako, Steve Kalantari, Nima Khademi Graphics Machine Learning We propose a neural approach for estimating spatially varying light selection distributions to improve importance sampling in Monte Carlo rendering, particularly for complex scenes with many light sources. Our method uses a neural network to predict the light selection distribution at each shading point based on local information, trained by minimizing the KL-divergence between the learned and target distributions in an online manner. To efficiently manage hundreds or thousands of lights, we integrate our neural approach with light hierarchy techniques, where the network predicts cluster-level distributions and existing methods sample lights within clusters. Additionally, we introduce a residual learning strategy that leverages initial distributions from existing techniques, accelerating convergence during training. Our method achieves superior performance across diverse and challenging scenes. |
| title | Neural Importance Sampling of Many Lights |
| topic | Graphics Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11729 |