Global Illumination

Global Illumination is a rendering technique within the field of computer graphics that extends local illumination models by accounting for both direct and indirect light transport, thereby accurately simulating the complex interactions of light within a scene to achieve photorealistic visualizations.

532

Publications

34.6K

Citations

980

Authors

349

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Computer GraphicsDigital RenderingPhotorealistic VisualizationReal-time RenderingRendering

Children

CausticsDiffuse InterreflectionEnergy Conservation In RenderingEnvironment LightingGlobal Illumination AlgorithmsGlossy Reflection RenderingImportance SamplingIndirect LightingInstant RadiosityIrradiance Caching

Publications

532

An improved illumination model for shaded display

Turner Whitted · Communications of the ACM · 1980 · 1.8K citations · Full text

Architecture, Visualization, Computer Graphics +15

The RADIANCE lighting simulation and rendering system

Gregory J. Ward · 1994 · 994 citations

Architecture, Design, Computer Graphics +16

Rendering synthetic objects into real scenes

Paul Debevec · 2008 · 975 citations

Architecture, Vision Science, Computer Vision +16

Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces

Cindy M. Goral, K. E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg et al. · 1984 · 813 citations

Architecture, Computational Engineering, Digital Rendering +15

Precomputed radiance transfer for real-time rendering in dynamic, low-frequency lighting environments

Peter‐Pike Sloan, Jan Kautz, John Snyder · 2002 · 778 citations

Architecture, Computational Engineering, Computer Graphics +16

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Authors

980

DP
Donald P. Greenberg
Cornell University, United States
24 publications · 4.1K citations
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Henrik Wann Jensen
University of California San Diego, United States
24 publications · 1.5K citations
20
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Hans‐Peter Seidel
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
23 publications · 1K citations
19
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RR
Ravi Ramamoorthi
University of California, Berkeley, United States
20 publications · 1.1K citations
16
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Philipp Slusallek
Saarland University, Germany
16 publications · 901 citations
15
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Institutions

349

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Venues

ACM Transactions on Graphics
TOG · 82 publications · 7.4K citations
49
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Computer Graphics Forum
64 publications · 2.1K citations
25
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TVCG · 24 publications · 825 citations
17
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ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
11 publications · 1.2K citations
11
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IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
7 publications · 661 citations
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