Merlin Nimier-David

Unbiased Inverse Volume Rendering with Differential Trackers

• Merlin Nimier-David,
• Thomas Müller,
• Alexander Keller,
• Wenzel Jakob

In Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2022)

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Material and Lighting Reconstruction for Complex Indoor Scenes with Texture-space Differentiable Rendering

• Merlin Nimier-David,
• Zhao Dong,
• Wenzel Jakob,
• Anton Kaplanyan

In Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2021 (DL-only Track)
★ Best presentation award

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Radiative Backpropagation: an Adjoint Method for Lightning-Fast Differentiable Rendering

• Merlin Nimier-David,
• Sébastien Speierer,
• Benoît Ruiz,
• Wenzel Jakob

In Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2020)

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Mitsuba 2: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer

• Merlin Nimier-David*,
• Delio Vicini*,
• Tizian Zeltner,
• Wenzel Jakob

(*joint first authors)

In Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2019)

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Building and Animating User-Specific Volumetric Face Rigs

• Alexandru-Eugen Ichim,
• Ladislav Kavan,
• Merlin Nimier-David,
• Mark Pauly

In Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2016

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Rendering Procedural Microstructure using Adaptive Gaussian Processes

• Merlin Nimier-David

Supervised by Steve Marschner, Bruce Walter and Wenzel Jakob
Research conducted at Cornell University, 2017