Multiple Importance Sampling

Revisiting controlled mixture sampling for rendering applications

Qingqin Hua, Pascal Grittmann, Philipp Slusallek

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH 2023 Rendering
Multiple Importance Sampling Monte Carlo Rendering Mixture Sampling Path Guiding Importance Sampling

Correct your balance heuristic: Optimizing balance-style multiple importance sampling weights

Qingqin Hua, Pascal Grittmann, Philipp Slusallek

Journal SIGGRAPH 2025 Rendering
Multiple Importance Sampling MIS Monte Carlo Rendering Ray Tracing Global Illumination Balance Heuristic Variance Reduction Bidirectional Path Tracing VCM Resampled Importance Sampling

Multiple Importance Reweighting for Path Guiding

Zhimin Fan, Yiming Wang, Chenxi Zhou, Ling-Qi Yan, Yanwen Guo, Jie Guo

Journal SIGGRAPH 2025 Rendering
Path Guiding Multiple Importance Sampling Monte Carlo Rendering Variance Reduction Sample Reweighting Adaptive Importance Sampling Ray Tracing

MARS: Multi-sample Allocation through Russian roulette and Splitting

Joshua Meyer, Alexander Rath, Ömercan Yazici, Philipp Slusallek

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Rendering
Monte Carlo Rendering Russian Roulette Splitting Multiple Importance Sampling Path Guiding Bidirectional Path Tracing

Jackknife Transmittance and MIS Weight Estimation

Christoph Peters

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Rendering
Transmittance Estimation Multiple Importance Sampling Monte Carlo Rendering Participating Media Volume Rendering Ratio Tracking Unbiased Estimator