Affiliation:
1. KAIST, Republic of Korea
Abstract
Image-space auxiliary features such as surface normal have significantly contributed to the recent success of Monte Carlo (MC) reconstruction networks. However, path-space features, another essential piece of light propagation, have not yet been sufficiently explored. Due to the curse of dimensionality, information flow between a regression loss and high-dimensional path-space features is sparse, leading to difficult training and inefficient usage of path-space features in a typical reconstruction framework. This paper introduces a contrastive manifold learning framework to utilize path-space features effectively. The proposed framework employs weakly-supervised learning that converts reference pixel colors to dense pseudo labels for light paths. A convolutional path-embedding network then induces a low-dimensional manifold of paths by iteratively clustering intra-class embeddings, while discriminating inter-class embeddings using gradient descent. The proposed framework facilitates path-space exploration of reconstruction networks by extracting low-dimensional yet meaningful embeddings within the features. We apply our framework to the recent image- and sample-space models and demonstrate considerable improvements, especially on the sample space. The source code is available at https://github.com/Mephisto405/WCMC.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Cited by
9 articles.
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