A Progressive Rendering Algorithm Using an Adaptive Perceptually Based Image Metric

In this paper, we propose to solve the global illumination problem through a progressive rendering method relying on an adaptive sampling of the image space. The refinement of this sample scheme is driven by an image metric based on a powerful vision model. A Delaunay triangulation of the sampled points is followed by a classification of these triangles into three classes. By interpolating each triangle according to the class it belongs to, we can obtain a high quality image by computing only a fraction of all the pixels and thus saving computation time.

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