Machine Learning and Rendering

Abstract

Machine learning techniques just recently enabled dramatic improvementsinbothrealtimeandofflinerendering.Inthiscourse, weintroducethebasicprinciplesofmachinelearningandreview their relations to rendering. Besides fundamental facts like the mathematicalidentityofreinforcementlearningandtherendering equation,wecoverefficientandsurprisinglyelegantsolutionsto lighttransportsimulation,participatingmedia,andnoiseremoval.

Keywords

• Rendering
• machine learning
• path tracing
• path guiding
• parametric mixture models
• neural networks
• reinforcement learning
• integral equations