Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Keller

- computer graphics,
- computer vision,
- Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods,
- highly uniform point sets,
- particle methods for transport equations, and
- wavelets and the lifting scheme.

McRender.

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Strictly deterministic sampling in computer graphics.

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Faster numerical algorithms for photorealistic image synthesis.

- SamplePack: Superfast low discrepancy points.

Strukturierung der Animationsprogrammierung

GMD-Studien Nr. 223, November 1993, pp. 109 - 111.

Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Computer Graphics, Part I: The QMC-Buffer

with Stefan Heinrich

Technical Report 242/94, University of Kaiserslautern.

Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Computer Graphics, Part II: The Radiance Equation

with Stefan Heinrich

Technical Report 243/94, University of Kaiserslautern.

A Quasi-Monte Carlo Algorithm for the Global Illumination Problem in the Radiosity Setting

Lecture Notes in Statistics, 106 (ed. by H. Niederreiter and P. Shiue), pp. 239 - 251.

Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Computer Graphics

in O. Mahrenholtz, K. Marti, and R. Mennicken (eds.), ICIAM / GAMM 95, Special Issue of ZAMM, Issue 3: Applied Stochastics and Optimization, pp.109-112, 1996.

Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Computer Graphics: The Global Illumination Problem

Lectures in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 32, 1996, pp. 455-469.

The fast Calculation of Form Factors using Low Discrepancy Point Sequences

Proceedings of the 12. Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, Bratislava, 1996, pp. 195 - 204.

Quasi-Monte Carlo Radiosity (extended version)

Rendering Techniques '96, (ed. by X. Pueyo and P. Schröder), Springer, 1996, pp. 101-110.

Instant Radiosity

Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, SIGGRAPH 97, pp. 49-56.

Creative Applications Lab (CAL) Content: Download the demo software presented at SIGGRAPH 97 (HTML and binaries for any SGI >= O2) !

Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods for Photorealisitic Image Synthesis

Ph.D. thesis, Shaker Verlag, Aachen 1998, ISBN 3-8265-3330-5.

The Quasi-Random Walk

Lecture Notes in Statistics, 127 (ed. by H. Niederreiter, P. Hellekalek, G. Larcher and P. Zinterhof), pp. 277 - 291.

Hierarchical Monte Carlo Image Synthesis

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 55, no. 1-3, pp.79-92.

Due to the very unprofessional editing procedure at Elsevier Science Publishers many typos have been introduced into the journal version of the publication. In addition the quality of the reproduction of all images and graphs is below standard. Therefore you better download the version from this website.

Efficient Importance Sampling Techniques for the Photon Map

with Ingo Wald

Proceedings of VISION, MODELING, AND VISUALIZATION 2000, IOS Press, pp. 271-279.

Metropolis Light Transport for Participating Media

with Mark Pauly and Thomas Kollig

Rendering Techniques 2000, (ed. by H. Rushmeier and B. Peroche), Springer, 2000

Random Fields on Rank-1 Lattices

Technical Report 307/01, University of Kaiserslautern

Interleaved Sampling

with Wolfgang Heidrich

in Rendering Techniques 2001, (ed. by S. Gortler and K. Myszkowski), Springer, 2001, pp. 269-276

Fast Generation of Randomized Low Discrepancy Points Sets

with Ilja Friedel

in K.-T. Fang, F.J. Hickernell, and H. Niederreiter (eds.), Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2000, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 257-273.

Efficient Bidirectional Path Tracing by Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration

with Thomas Kollig

in K.-T. Fang, F.J. Hickernell, and H. Niederreiter (eds.), Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2000, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 290-305.

Tiled Blue Noise Samples

with S. Hiller and O. Deussen

Proceedings of VISION, MODELING, AND VISUALIZATION 2001, IOS Press, pp. 265-271

Trajectory Splitting by Restricted Replication

Technical Report 316/01, University of Kaiserslautern

Monte Carlo & Beyond, - Course Material -

Technical Report 320/02, University of Kaiserslautern

This course was first held at the Caltech July 30th through August 3rd, 2001. The material is from the block course at the ETH Zürich held early 2002.

Interactive Global Illumination using Fast Ray Tracing

with I. Wald, T. Kollig, C. Benthin, and P. Slusallek

in Rendering Techniques 2002, (ed. by P. Debevec and S. Gibson), Springer, 2002, pp. 15-24.

Efficient Multidimensional Sampling

with T. Kollig

in G. Drettakis, and H.-P. Seidel (eds.), Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 21 (2002), No. 3, pp. 557-563.

Strictly Deterministic Sampling Methods in Computer Graphics

(mental images technical report, 2001) in "Monte Carlo Ray Tracing", SIGGRAPH'2003 Course, San Diego, July 2003, to appear.