Samuli Laine Research Scientist, PhD NVIDIA Research Urho Kekkosen katu 3 b FIN-00100 Helsinki Finland Email: slainenvidia.com

Refereed Publications

	Timo Aila and Samuli Laine. Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs. High-Performance Graphics 2009. [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF] [CUDA kernels]
	Samuli Laine, Samuel Siltanen, Tapio Lokki and Lauri Savioja. Accelerated Beam Tracing Algorithm. Applied Acoustics 70(1), 2009. [Abstract] [Bibtex]
	Samuli Laine, Hannu Saransaari, Janne Kontkanen, Jaakko Lehtinen and Timo Aila. Incremental Instant Radiosity for Real-Time Indirect Illumination. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2007. [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF] [Animations] [Slides]
	Jaakko Lehtinen, Samuli Laine and Timo Aila. An Improved Physically-Based Soft Shadow Volume Algorithm. Computer Graphics Forum 25(3) (Eurographics 2006). [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF]
	Samuli Laine and Timo Aila. A Weighted Error Metric and Optimization Method for Antialiasing Patterns. Computer Graphics Forum 25(1), 2006. [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF] [Pattern page]
	Janne Kontkanen and Samuli Laine. Sampling Precomputed Volumetric Lighting. Journal of Graphics Tools 11(3), 2006. [Abstract] [Bibtex]
	Jon Hasselgren, Tomas Akenine-Möller and Samuli Laine. A Family of Inexpensive Sampling Schemes. Computer Graphics Forum 24(4), 2005. [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF]
	Samuli Laine, Timo Aila, Ulf Assarsson, Jaakko Lehtinen and Tomas Akenine-Möller. Soft Shadow Volumes for Ray Tracing. ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3) (SIGGRAPH 2005). [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF] [Slides]
	Samuli Laine and Timo Aila. Hierarchical Penumbra Casting. Computer Graphics Forum 24(3) (Eurographics 2005). [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF] [Slides] Note: Math symbol is missing in the CGF print.
	Samuli Laine. Split-Plane Shadow Volumes. Graphics Hardware 2005. [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF] [Animations] [Slides]
	Samuli Laine. A General Algorithm for Output-Sensitive Visibility Preprocessing. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2005. [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF] [Slides]
	Janne Kontkanen and Samuli Laine. Ambient Occlusion Fields. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2005. [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF] [Project page]
	Timo Aila and Samuli Laine. Alias-Free Shadow Maps. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2004. [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF] [Slides] [Hairball in .OBJ format]

Other Publications

	Janne Kontkanen and Samuli Laine. Ambient Occlusion Fields. Article published in book ShaderX4, Charles River Media. [Bibtex]
	Hannu Saransaari, Samuli Laine, Janne Kontkanen, Jaakko Lehtinen and Timo Aila. Incremental Instant Radiosity. Article published in book ShaderX6, Charles River Media. [Bibtex]

Theses

	Samuli Laine. Efficient Physically-Based Shadow Algorithms. Doctoral thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, August 2006. [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF]
	Samuli Laine. An Incremental Shaft Subdivision Algorithm for Computing Shadows and Visibility. Master's thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, March 2006. [Abstract] [Bibtex] [PDF]