arXiv:2504.04411cs.GRcs.CV2025-04被引 3

用假设检验动态确定核半径,提升辐射度估计的无偏性和视觉质量。

Hypothesis Testing for Progressive Kernel Estimation and VCM Framework

  • 基于统计假设检验决定核半径是否无偏
  • 实验显示可有效减少光泄漏和模糊伪影
  • 适合渲染算法研究者与图形学开发者

确定无偏核估计的合适半径对辐射度估计效率至关重要,但半径与无偏性的协同确定仍面临挑战。本文首先构建了光子样本及其贡献的统计模型,在该模型下,若原假设成立,则核估计无偏。随后提出利用方差分析中的F检验判断是否拒绝该原假设,从而实现渐进式光子映射(PPM)中核半径的自适应确定。其次,提出VCM+,对顶点连接与合并(VCM)进行理论无偏化改进,并通过多重重要性采样(MIS)将基于假设检验的PPM与双向路径追踪(BDPT)融合。在多种光照场景下的实验表明,新方法能显著缓解先前辐射度估计方法的光泄漏与视觉模糊伪影。我们还评估了渐近性能,结果显示在所有测试场景中均优于基线方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Identifying an appropriate radius for unbiased kernel estimation is crucial for the efficiency of radiance estimation. However, determining both the radius and unbiasedness still faces big challenges. In this paper, we first propose a statistical model of photon samples and associated contributions for progressive kernel estimation, under which the kernel estimation is unbiased if the null hypothesis of this statistical model stands. Then, we present a method to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis about the statistical population (i.e., photon samples) by the F-test in the Analysis of Variance. Hereby, we implement a progressive photon mapping (PPM) algorithm, wherein the kernel radius is determined by this hypothesis test for unbiased radiance estimation. Secondly, we propose VCM+, a reinforcement of Vertex Connection and Merging (VCM), and derive its theoretically unbiased formulation. VCM+ combines hypothesis testing-based PPM with bidirectional path tracing (BDPT) via multiple importance sampling (MIS), wherein our kernel radius can leverage the contributions from PPM and BDPT. We test our new algorithms, improved PPM and VCM+, on diverse scenarios with different lighting settings. The experimental results demonstrate that our method can alleviate light leaks and visual blur artifacts of prior radiance estimate algorithms. We also evaluate the asymptotic performance of our approach and observe an overall improvement over the baseline in all testing scenarios.

渲染无偏估计假设检验路径追踪

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