Wenzel Jakob
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Wenzel Jakob |
Contact
5156 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850
Interests and Current Research
Robust bidirectional light transport algorithms
Material appearance modeling
Subsurface scattering
Global Illumination
Scientific computing
Papers, Reports and Theses
 | Manifold Exploration: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique for rendering scenes with difficult specular transport, Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner, To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2012) |
 | Structure-aware Synthesis for Predictive Woven Fabric Appearance, Shuang Zhao, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner, and Kavita Bala, To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2012) |
 | Progressive Expectation-Maximization for Hierarchical Volumetric Photon Mapping, Wenzel Jakob, Christian Regg and Wojciech Jarosz, In Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2011) |
 | Building Volumetric Appearance Models of Fabric using Micro CT Imaging, Shuang Zhao, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner, Kavita Bala. 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 |
 | Technical report on “A radiative transfer framework for rendering materials with anisotropic structure”, Wenzel Jakob, Adam Arbree, Jonathan T. Moon, Kavita Bala and Steve Marschner. Available at eCommons@Cornell |
 | A radiative transfer framework for rendering materials with anisotropic structure, Wenzel Jakob, Adam Arbree, Jonathan T. Moon, Kavita Bala and Steve Marschner – 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
 | Nori, a simple ray tracer for programming assignments in a graduate-level computer graphics course. It is currently being used to teach CS6630 at Cornell University. |
 | 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
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, Cornell University, Fall 2008-present
M.Eng., Computer Science, Cornell University, May 2008
Vordiplom, Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, Sep 2006
Teaching
Realistic Image Synthesis (CS6630), Spring 2012
Introduction to Compilers (CS4120), Fall 2011
Introduction to Scientific Computing (CS3220), Spring 2009
Interactive Computer Graphics (CS569), Spring 2008
Linear Algebra I (LA1), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fall 2006