A Virtual library of Monte-Carlo Global Illumination Papers on the WEB

Books, theses and reviews

• Ph. Bekaert, Hierarchical and Stochastic Algorithms for Radiosity, PhD Thesis, December, 14 1999
• Ph. Dutré, Mathematical Frameworks and Monte Carlo Algorithms for Global Illumination in Computer Graphics, PhD Thesis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (September 1996).
• E.P. Lafortune, Mathematical Models and Monte Carlo Algorithms for Physically Based Rendering, PhD dissertation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (February 1996).
• Per H. Christensen. Hierarchical Techniques for Glossy Global Illumination. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, July 1995. (TR 95-07-04)
• Larson, G.W. and R.A. Shakespeare, Rendering with Radiance: the Art and Science of Lighting Visualization, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 1998.
• P. Shirley: Physically Based Lighting Calculations for Computer Graphics, Ph.D. thesis
• P. Shirley: Hybrid Radiosity/Monte Carlo Methods by Shirley. Siggraph 94 Advanced Radiosity Course
• C. Urena. Efficient Monte-Carlo Methods for Global Illumination, Phd. Dissertation Universidad de Granada. Septiembre 1998.
• Eric Veach: Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation, Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, December 1997.
• McCabe, H.: Image Synthesis Group Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin, Technical Report, 1999

Quasi-Monte Carlo fundamentals

• A. Keller: Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Computer Graphics: The Global Illumination Problem, Lectures in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 32, 1996, pp. 455-469.
• A. Keller: The fast Calculation of Form Factors using Low Discrepancy Point Sequences, Proceedings of the 12. Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, Bratislava, 1996, pp. 195 - 204.
• A. Keller: Quasi-Monte Carlo Radiosity (extended version), Rendering Techniques '96, (ed. by X. Pueyo and P. Schröder), Springer, 1996, pp. 101-110.
• Francesc Castro, Roel Martinez, Mateu Sbert: Quasi Monte-Carlo and extended first shot improvements to the multi-path method, Spring Conference of Computer Graphics, Budmerice, pp 91-102, 1998

Finite-element glossy illumination

• Pat Hanrahan and Larry Aupperle: A Hierarchical Illumination Algorithm for Surfaces with Glossy Reflection, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 93 Proceedings)
• François X. Sillion, James R. Arvo, Stephen H. Westin and Donald P. Greenberg: A Global Illumination Solution for General Reflectance Distributions, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 91, Las Vegas, USA
• W. Stürzlinger, Calculating Global Illumination for Glossy Surfaces, Computers & Graphics, vol. 22, no. 2-3, pp. 175-180, March 1998. PDF 59 kB
• Marc Stamminger, Annette Scheel, Xavier Granier, Frederic Pérez, George Drettakis and François Sillion: Efficient Glossy Global Illumination with Interactive Viewing  Graphics Interface '99, Computer Graphics Forum, 1999.

Gathering type random walk global illumination papers

• Ward, G., ``The RADIANCE Lighting Simulation and Rendering System,'' Computer Graphics, July 1994.

Shooting type global illumination papers

• Ph. Dutré, Y.D. Willems, Importance-driven Monte Carlo Light Tracing, Photorealistic Rendering Techniques, G. Sakas, P. Shirley, S. Müller (eds.), Springer-Verlag 1995,
• Ph. Dutré, E.P. Lafortune, Y.D. Willems, Monte Carlo Light Tracing with Direct Computation of Pixel Intensities, Proceedings of Compugraphics '93, Alvor, Portugal (December 1993), pp. 128-137.

Bi-directional global illumination papers

• F. Suykens, Y. D. Willems, Weighted Multipass Methods for Global Illumination, Eurographics '99, Milan, Italy, September 7--11, 1999
• F. Suykens, Y. D. Willems, Combining Bidirectional Path Tracing and Multipass Rendering, 7-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interactive Digital Media'99 (WSCG'99), Plzen, Czech Republic, February 8--12, 1999.
• Ph. Dutré, F. Suykens, Y.D. Willems, Optimized Monte Carlo Path Generation using Genetic Algorithms, Report CW267, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven (May 1998).
• E.P. Lafortune, Y.D. Willems, Bi-Directional Path Tracing, Proceedings of Compugraphics '93, Alvor, Portugal (December 1993), pp. 145-153.

Photon-maps

• Henrik Wann Jensen: "Global Illumination using Photon Maps". In "Rendering Techniques '96". Eds. X. Pueyo and P. Schröder. Springer-Verlag, pages 21-30, 1996
• Shirley, Peter, Bretton Wade, Philip Hubbard, David Zareski, Bruce Walter, Greenberg, Donald: Global Illumination via Density-Estimation Radiosity.Eurographics Rendering Workshop 1995.

Monte-Carlo radiosity

• M. Sbert, A. Brusi and Ph. Bekaert, Gathering for free in random walk radiosity, Rendering Techniques '99 (Proceedings of the 10th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Granada, Spain), June 1999
• Ph. Bekaert, R. Cools and Y. D. Willems, An Empirical Comparison of Monte Carlo Radiosity Algorithms, 7-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and  Interactive Digital Media'99 (WSCG'99), Plzen, Czech Republic, February 8--12, 1999.
• Ph. Bekaert, L. Neumann, A. Neumann, M. Sbert, Y.D. Willems, Hierarchical Monte Carlo Radiosity, Rendering Techniques '98, Springer Verlag Wien-New York, 1998.
• L. Neumann, A. Neumann, Ph. Bekaert, Radiosity with Well Distributed Ray Sets, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol 16 nr 3, August 1997 (Proceedings of Eurographics '97, Budapest, Hungary)
• Ph. Dutré, Ph. Bekaert, F. Suykens, Y.D. Willems, Bidirectional Radiosity, Proceedings of the 8th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, St.Etienne, France (June 1997)
• A. Neumann, L. Neumann, Ph. Bekaert, Y.D. Willems, W. Purgathofer, Importance-driven Stochastic Ray Radiosity, Rendering Techniques '96, X. Pueyo, P. Schröder (eds.), Springer-Verlag 1996,
• P. Shirley: Time Complexity of Monte Carlo Radiosity by Shirley. Computers and Graphics 16(1), 1992.
• Pat Hanrahan, David Salzman, and Larry Aupperle: A Hierarchical Radiosity Algorithm, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 91 Proceedings)

Importance sampling

• E.P. Lafortune, Y.D. Willems, A 5D Tree to Reduce the Variance of Monte Carlo Ray Tracing, Rendering Techniques '95, P.M. Hanrahan, W. Purgathofer (eds.), Springer-Verlag 1995,
• P. Shirley: Direct Lighting Calculation by Monte Carlo Integration by Shirley, Wang. Proceedings of the 2nd Eurographics Rendering Workshop (Barcelona, 1991).
• E.P. Lafortune, Y.D. Willems, Using the Modified Phong brdf for Physically Based Rendering, Report CW197, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven (November 1994).