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 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
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
I was a teaching assistant for:
Introduction to Scientific Computing (CS3220), Spring 2009
Interactive Computer Graphics (CS569), Spring 2008
Linear Algebra I (LA1), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fall 2006