Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 6, 378(2025)
Perception-entropy-driven temporal reusing for real-time ray tracing
Although ray tracing produces high-fidelity, realistic images, it is considered computationally burdensome when implemented on a high rendering rate system. Perception-driven rendering techniques generate images with minimal noise and distortion that are generally acceptable to the human visual system, thereby reducing rendering costs. In this paper, we introduce a perception-entropy-driven temporal reusing method to accelerate real-time ray tracing. We first build a just noticeable difference (JND) model to represent the uncertainty of ray samples and image space masking effects. Then, we expand the shading gradient through gradient max-pooling and gradient filtering to enlarge the visual receipt field. Finally, we dynamically optimize reusable time segments to improve the accuracy of temporal reusing. Compared with Monte Carlo ray tracing, our algorithm enhances frames per second (fps) by 1.93× to 2.96× at 8 to 16 samples per pixel, significantly accelerating the Monte Carlo ray tracing process while maintaining visual quality.
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SHEN Zhongye, CHEN Chunyi, YAO Weixun, YU Haiyang, PENG Jun. Perception-entropy-driven temporal reusing for real-time ray tracing[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2025, 21(6): 378
Received: May. 28, 2024
Accepted: Jun. 27, 2025
Published Online: Jun. 27, 2025
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