Papers by Steve Bako


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Kernel-Predicting Convolutional Networks for Denoising Monte Carlo Renderings

Steve Bako, Thijs Vogels, Brian McWilliams, Mark Meyer, Jan Novak, Alex Harvill, Pradeep Sen, Tony DeRose, Fabrice Rousselle
July 2017

Regression-based algorithms have shown to be good at denoising Monte Carlo (MC) renderings by leveraging its inexpensive by-products (e.g., feature buffers). However, when using higher-order models to handle complex cases, these techniques often overfit to noise in the input. For this reason, supervised learning methods have been proposed that ... more

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SIGGRAPH 2017