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2025

  1. Practical Stylized Nonlinear Monte Carlo Rendering
    Practical Stylized Nonlinear Monte Carlo Rendering
    Xiaochun Tong, Toshiya Hachisuka
    Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Conference Papers (SIGGRAPH Conference Papers ’25), August 10–14, 2025, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2025)
    "The first practical method for solving the stylized rendering equation, providing exponential speedup over the naive branching path tracer".
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2024

  1. Efficient Image-space Shape Splatting for Monte Carlo Rendering
    Efficient Image-space Shape Splatting for Monte Carlo Rendering
    Xiaochun Tong, Toshiya Hachisuka
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Processdings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2024) (2024)
    "You can reuse a path to 60 pixels with only 3 shift mappings".
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2023

  1. Differentiable Heightfield Path Tracing with Accelerated Discontinuities
    Differentiable Heightfield Path Tracing with Accelerated Discontinuities
    Xiaochun Tong, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Yotam I. Gingold, Alec Jacobson
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference Proceedings, SIGGRAPH 2023, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 6-10, 2023 (2023)
    "A fast differentiable heightfield renderer that finds all geometry discontinuities efficiently".
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