Wenzel Jakob

Wenzel Jakob 

Wenzel Jakob
Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University

Advisor: Steve Marschner

Contact

5156 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850

Interests and Current Research

Papers and Theses

Progressive Expectation-Maximization for Hierarchical Volumetric Photon Mapping, Wenzel Jakob, Christian Regg and Wojciech Jarosz, Accepted to Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2011
Building Volumetric Appearance Models of Fabric using Micro CT Imaging, Shuang Zhao, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner, Kavita Bala. To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2011)
Goal-Based Caustics, Marios Papas, Wojciech Jarosz, Wenzel Jakob, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Wojciech Matusik, Tim Weyrich. To appear in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics 2011), Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2011
A radiative transfer framework for rendering materials with anisotropic structure, Wenzel Jakob, Adam Arbree, Jonathan T. Moon, Kavita Bala and Steve Marschner – to appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2010)
Capturing Hair Assemblies Fiber by Fiber, Wenzel Jakob, Jonathan T. Moon, Steve Marschner – in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2009)
An Analytic Framework for Anisotropic Diffusion in Computer Graphics, M.Eng. Project, CS, Cornell University
Accelerating the bidirectional path tracing algorithm using a dedicated intersection processor, Undergraduate thesis, CS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

An open source implementation including all VHDL cores is available at: https://wazlaf.org/svn/intersect/trunk

Personal and Class Projects

Mitsuba, a cross-platform physically-based renderering system written in C++. Its primary goal is the distribution of lengthy rendering-related task over a scalable parallel computation layer capable of handling hundreds of cores
fsolver, a projection-method fluid simulator using staggered grids and semi-Lagrangian advection
autodiff.h, a fully templated automatic differentiation library for C++
Eating Healthy, my final project for Don Greenberg’s course Computer Animation

Education

Teaching

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