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Anton Kaplanyan
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I enjoy advancing research in computer graphics with current focus on real-time rendering, including neural rendering, perceptual rendering, shading and appearance, as well as differentiable rendering. My research is used in Nvidia's middleware and RTX hardware, game engines (UE4, Unity, CryEngine) and games, and in Pixar's RenderMan. My PhD is on light transport simulation, also a former gamedev at Crytek.

Publications
2021
Teaser
D. Vicini, W. Jakob, A. Kaplanyan
ACM Transactions on Graphics 40(4), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
2021
@article{Vicini2021NonExponential,
    author    = {Vicini, Delio and Jakob, Wenzel and Kaplanyan, Anton},
    title     = {A Non-Exponential Transmittance Model for Volumetric Scene Representations},
  journal   = {Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH),
  volume    = {40},
  number    = {4},
  year      = {2021},
  pages     = {136:1--136:16}
}
Teaser
R. K. Mantiuk, G. Denes, A. Chapiro, A. Kaplanyan, G. Rufo, R. Bachy, T. Lian, and A. Patney
ACM Transactions on Graphics 40(4), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
2021
@article{Mantiuk2021VVDP,
    author    = {Mantiuk, RafaƂ K. and Denes, Gyorgy and Chapiro, Alexandre and Kaplanyan, Anton and Rufo, Gizem and Bachy, Romain and Lian, Trisha and Patney, Anjul},
    title     = {FovVideoVDP: A visible difference predictor for wide field-of-view video},
  journal   = {Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH),
  volume    = {40},
  number    = {4},
  year      = {2021},
  pages     = {49:1--49:19}
}
Teaser
T. Neff, P. Stadlbauer, M. Parger, A. Kurz, J. H. Mueller, C. R. A. Chaitanya, A. Kaplanyan, M. Steinberger
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, CGF track
2021
@article{Neff2021donerf,
    author    = {Thomas Neff and Pascal Stadlbauer and Mathias Parger and Andreas Kurz and Joerg H. Mueller and Chakravarty R. Alla Chaitanya and Anton Kaplanyan and Markus Steinberger},
    title     = {DONeRF: Towards Real-Time Rendering of Compact Neural Radiance Fields using Depth Oracle Networks},
  journal   = {Comp. Graph. Forum (Proc. EGSR),
  volume    = {},
  number    = {},
  year      = {2021}
}
Teaser
Best talk
M. Nimier-David, Z. Dong, W. Jakob, A. Kaplanyan
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, CGF track
2021
@article{Neff2021donerf,
    author    = {Merlin Nimier-David and Zhao Dong and Wenzel Jakob and Anton Kaplanyan},
    title     = {Material and lighting reconstruction for complex indoor scenes with texture-space differentiable rendering },
  journal   = {Comp. Graph. Forum (Proc. EGSR),
  volume    = {},
  number    = {},
  year      = {2021}
}
Teaser
Y. Tokuyoshi, A. Kaplanyan
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT), 10(2)
2021
@article{Tokuyoshi2021SAA,
  author =       {Yusuke Tokuyoshi and Anton S. Kaplanyan}, 
  title =        {Stable Geometric Specular Antialiasing with Projected-Space NDF Filtering},
  year =         2021,
  journal =      {Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques},
  volume =       10,
  number =       2,
  pages =        {31--58},
  url =          {http://jcgt.org/published/0010/02/02/}
}
2020
Teaser
L. Xiao, S. Nouri, M. Chapman, A. Fix, D. Lanman, A. Kaplanyan
ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(4), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
2020
@article{Xiao20,
 author = {Xiao, Lei and Nouri, Salah and Chapman, Matt and Fix, Alexander and Lanman, Douglas and Kaplanyan, Anton},
 title = {Neural Supersampling for Real-time Rendering},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH)},
 volume = {39},
 number = {4},
 year = {2020}
}
2019
Teaser
A. Kaplanyan, A. Sochenov, T. Leimkuehler , M. Okunev, T. Goodall, G. Rufo
ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(4), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia
2019
@article{Kaplanyan19,
 author = {Kaplanyan, Anton and Sochenov, Anton and Leimkuehler, Thomas and Okunev, Mikhail and Goodall, Todd and Rufo, Gizem},
 title = {{DeepFovea}: Neural Reconstruction for Foveated Rendering and Video Compression using Learned Statistics of Natural Videos},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia)},
 volume = {38},
 number = {4},
 year = {2019},
 pages = {212:1--212:13}
}
Teaser
D. Azinovic, T.-Mao Li, A. Kaplanyan, M. Niessner
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (oral presentation)
2019
@inproceedings{Azinovic19,
 author = {Azinovic, Dejan and Li, Tzu-Mao and Kaplanyan, Anton, and Niessner, Matthias},
 title = {Inverse Path Tracing for Joint Material and Lighting Estimation},
 booktitle = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
 series = {CVPR},
 articleno = {1},
 year = {2019}
} 
Teaser
Y. Tokuyoshi and A. Kaplanyan
ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
2019
@inproceedings{Tokuyoshi19,
 author = {Tokuyoshi, Yusuke  and Kaplanyan, Anton},
 title = {Improved Geometric Specular Antialiasing},
 booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games},
 series = {I3D},
 pages = {18:1--18:9},
 articleno = {18},
 year = {2019}
} 
2018
Teaser
L. Xiao, A. Kaplanyan, A. Fix, M. Chapman, D. Lanman
ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(6), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia
2018
@article{Xiao18,
 author = {Xiao, Lei and Kaplanyan, Anton and Fix, Alexander and Chapman, Matt and Lanman, Douglas},
 title = {DeepFocus: Learned Image Synthesis for Computational Displays},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia)},
 volume = {37},
 number = {6},
 year = {2018},
 pages = {200:1--200:13}
} 
2017
Teaser
C. Chakravarty, A. Kaplanyan, C. Schied, M. Salvi, A. Lefohn, D. Nowrouzezahrai, T. Aila
ACM Transactions on Graphics 36(4), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
2017
@article{Chaitanya17,
 author = {Chaitanya, Chakravarty R. Alla and Kaplanyan, Anton and Schied, Christoph and Salvi, Marco and Lefohn, Aaron and Nowrouzezahrai, Derek and Aila, Timo},
 title = {Interactive Reconstruction of {Monte Carlo} Image Sequences Using a Recurrent Denoising Autoencoder},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH)},
 volume = {36},
 number = {4},
 year = {2017},
 pages = {98:1--98:12}
} 
Teaser
1st place
C. Schied, A. Kaplanyan, C. Wyman, A. Patney, C. Chakravarty, J. Burgess, S. Liu, C. Dachsbacher, A. Lefohn, M. Salvi
Proceedings of High Performance Graphics
2017
@inproceedings{Schied17,
 author = {Schied, Christoph and Kaplanyan, Anton and Wyman, Chris and Patney, Anjul and Chaitanya, Chakravarty R. Alla and Burgess, John and Liu, Shiqiu and Dachsbacher, Carsten and Lefohn, Aaron and Salvi, Marco},
 title = {Spatiotemporal Variance-guided Filtering: Real-time Reconstruction for Path-traced Global Illumination},
 booktitle = {Proc. High Performance Graphics},
 series = {HPG},
 year = {2017},
 pages = {2:1--2:12},
 articleno = {2}
} 
Teaser
H. Otsu, A. Kaplanyan, J. Hanika, C. Dachsbacher, T. Hachisuka
ACM Transactions on Graphics 36(4), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
2017
@article{Otsu17,
  author    = {Hisanari Otsu and Anton Kaplanyan and
               Johannes Hanika and Carsten Dachsbacher and Toshiya Hachisuka},
  title     = {Fusing state spaces for {Markov chain Monte Carlo} rendering},
  journal   = {ACM Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH)},
  volume    = {36},
  number    = {4},
  pages     = {74:1--74:10},
  year      = {2017},
}
2016
Teaser
1st place
A. Kaplanyan, S. Hill, A. Patney, A. Lefohn
Proceedings of High Performance Graphics
2016
@inproceedings{Kaplanyan16,
 author = {Kaplanyan, A. and Hill, S. and Patney, A. and Lefohn, A.},
 title = {Filtering Distributions of Normals for Shading Antialiasing},
 booktitle = {Proc. High Performance Graphics},
 series = {HPG},
 year = {2016},
 pages = {151--162},
}
Teaser
A. Patney, J. Kim, M. Salvi, A. Kaplanyan, C. Wyman, N. Benty, A. Lefohn, D. Luebke
ACM Transactions on Graphics 35(6), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia
2016
@article{Patney16,
 author = {Patney, Anjul and Salvi, Marco and Kim, Joohwan and Kaplanyan, Anton and Wyman, Chris and Benty, Nir and Luebke, David and Lefohn, Aaron},
 title = {Towards Foveated Rendering for Gaze-tracked Virtual Reality},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia)},
 volume = {35},
 number = {6},
 year = {2016},
 pages = {179:1--179:12}
}
Teaser
T. Zirr, A. Kaplanyan
Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
2016
@inproceedings{Zirr16,
 author = {Zirr, Tobias and Kaplanyan, Anton},
 title = {Real-time Rendering of Procedural Multiscale Materials},
 booktitle = {Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games},
 series = {I3D},
 year = {2016},
 pages = {139--148}
}
2015
Teaser
J. Hanika, A. Kaplanyan, C. Dachsbacher
Comput. Graph. Forum 34(4), Proceedings of EGSR
2015
@article{Hanika15,
 author = {Hanika, Johannes and Kaplanyan, Anton and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
 title = {Improved Half Vector Space Light Transport},
 journal = {Comput. Graph. Forum (Proc. EGSR)},
 volume = {34},
 number = {3},
 year = {2015},
 pages = {65--74}
}
2014
Teaser
A. Kaplanyan, J. Hanika, C. Dachsbacher
ACM Transactions on Graphics 33(4), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
2014
@article{Kaplanyan14,
 author = {Kaplanyan, Anton and Hanika, Johannes and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
 title = {The Natural-Constraint Representation of the Path Space for Efficient Light Transport Simulation},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH)},
 volume = {33},
 number = {4},
 year = {2014},
 pages = {102:1--102:13}
}
Teaser
T. Hachisuka, A. Kaplanyan, C. Dachsbacher
ACM Transactions on Graphics 33(4), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
2014
@article{Hachisuka14,
 author = {Hachisuka, Toshiya and Kaplanyan, Anton and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
 title = {Multiplexed Metropolis Light Transport},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH)},
 volume = {33},
 number = {4},
 year = {2014},
 pages = {100:1--100:10}
}
2013
Teaser
A. Kaplanyan, C. Dachsbacher
ACM Transactions on Graphics 32(2), Presented at SIGGRAPH
2013
@article{Kaplanyan13,
 author = {Kaplanyan, Anton and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
 title = {Adaptive Progressive Photon Mapping},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.},
 volume = {32},
 number = {2},
 year = {2013},
 pages = {16:1--16:13}
}
Teaser
A. Kaplanyan, C. Dachsbacher
Computer Graphics Forum 32(2), Proceedings of Eurographics
2013
@article{Kaplanyan13PSR,
 author  = {Kaplanyan, Anton and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
 title   = {Path Space Regularization for Holistic and Robust Light Transport},
 journal = {Comput. Graph. Forum (Proc. Eurographics)},
 volume  = {32},
 number  = {2},
 pages   = {63--72},
 year    = {2013}
}
Teaser
T. Schmidt, J. Novák, J. Meng, A. Kaplanyan, T Reiner, D. Nowrouzezahrai, C. Dachsbacher
ACM Transactions on Graphics 32(4), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
2013
@article{Schmidt13,
 author = {Schmidt, Thorsten-Walther and Nov\'{a}k, Jan and Meng, Johannes and Kaplanyan, Anton S. and Reiner, Tim and Nowrouzezahrai, Derek and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
 title = {Path-space Manipulation of Physically Based Light Transport},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH)},
 volume = {32},
 number = {4},
 year = {2013},
 pages = {129:1--129:11}
}
Teaser
C. Weber, A. Kaplanyan, M. Stamminger, C. Dachsbacher
Proc. Vision, Modeling, and Visualization
2013
@inproceedings{Weber13,
 title = {Interactive Direct Volume Rendering with Many-light Methods and Transmittance Caching},
 author = {Weber, Christoph and Kaplanyan, Anton and Stamminger, Marc and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
 booktitle = {Vision, Modeling and Visualization},
 editor = {Michael Bronstein and Jean Favre and Kai Hormann},
 year = {2013},
 publisher = {The Eurographics Association}
}
2012
Teaser
3rd place
T. Reiner, A. Kaplanyan, M. Reinhard, C. Dachsbacher
Computer Graphics Forum 31(2), Proceedings of Eurographics
2012
@article{Reiner12,
  author = {Reiner, Tim and Kaplanyan, Anton and Reinhard, Marcel and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
  title = {Selective Inspection and Interactive Visualization of Light Transport in Virtual Scenes},
  booktitle = {Comput. Graph. Forum (Proc. Eurographics)},
  year = {2012},
  volume = {31},
  number = {2},
  pages = {711--718}
}
Teaser
R. Prutkin, A. Kaplanyan, C. Dachsbacher
Proceedings of Eurographics Short Papers
2012
@inproceedings{Prutkin12,
  author = {Prutkin, Roman and Kaplanyan, Anton and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
  title = {Reflective Shadow Map Clustering for Real-Time Global Illumination},
  booktitle = {Proc. Eurographics Short Papers},
  year = {2012},
}
2011
Teaser
A. Kaplanyan, W. Engel, C. Dachsbacher
GPU Pro 2
2011
@incollection{Kaplanyan11,
  author      = {Kaplanyan, Anton and Engel, Wolfgang and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
  title       = {Diffuse Global Illumination with Temporally Coherent Light Propagation Volumes},
  editor      = {Wolfgang Engel},
  booktitle   = {{GPU} Pro 2},
  publisher   = {AK Peters},
  year        = 2011,
  pages       = {185--204},
  chapter     = 5
}
2010
Teaser
A. Kaplanyan, C. Dachsbacher
Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
2010
@inproceedings{Kaplanyan10,
  author = {Kaplanyan, Anton and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
  title = {Cascaded Light Propagation Volumes for Real-time Indirect Illumination},
  booktitle = {Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games},
  series = {I3D},
  year = {2010},
  pages = {99--107}
}
Contact
Anton Kaplanyan
Redmond, WA