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RayTracer.jl: A Differentiable Renderer that supports Parameter Optimization for Scene Reconstruction

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Avik Pal

Graphics · Submitted 16 Jul 2019

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The authors' main claim We demonstrate the use of this differentiable renderer in rendering tasks and in solving inverse graphics problems.

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CitationAvik Pal. "RayTracer.jl: A Differentiable Renderer that supports Parameter Optimization for Scene Reconstruction." arXiv:1907.07198 (2019). https://pith.science/paper/ZSQ3B37I
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In this paper, we present RayTracer.jl, a renderer in Julia that is fully differentiable using source-to-source Automatic Differentiation (AD). This means that RayTracer not only renders 2D images from 3D scene parameters, but it can be used to optimize for model parameters that generate a target image in a Differentiable Programming (DP) pipeline. We interface our renderer with the deep learning library Flux for use in combination with neural networks. We demonstrate the use of this differentiable renderer in rendering tasks and in solving inverse graphics problems.

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s3 We demonstrate the use of this differentiable renderer in rendering tasks and in solving inverse graphics problems. contribution 0.82 0.92 0.22 asserted 1.00

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In this paper, we present RayTracer.jl, a renderer in Julia that is fully differentiable using source-to-source Automatic Differentiation (AD). This means that RayTracer not only renders 2D images from 3D scene parameters, but it can be used to optimize for model parameters that generate a target image in a Differentiable Programming (DP) pipeline. We interface our renderer with the deep learning library Flux for use in combination with neural networks. We demonstrate the use of this differentiable renderer in rendering tasks and in solving inverse graphics problems.

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  • RayTracer.jl is naturally interfaced with the deep learning library Flux [ref] , due to the common AD backend, for use in more complex differentiable pipelines.

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