Guangyan Cai

Guangyan Cai

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

Biography

I am a first year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Irvine School of Information and Computer Science, working with Prof. Shuang Zhao. I am interested in physics-based rendering and differentiable rendering.

I hold a B.S. degree in Computer Science from UC San Diego, where I worked with Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi.

Interests

  • Computer Graphics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2020 - Present

    University of California, Irvine

  • B.S. in Computer Science, 2016 - 2020

    University of California, San Diego

Featured

Lifan Wu, Guangyan Cai, Shuang Zhao, Ravi Ramamoorthi
July 2020 ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020), 39(4), July 2020
Analytic Spherical Harmonic Gradients for Real-Time Rendering with Many Polygonal Area Lights

Analytic Spherical Harmonic Gradients for Real-Time Rendering with Many Polygonal Area Lights

In this paper, we develop a novel analytic formula for the spatial gradients of the spherical harmonic coefficients for uniform polygonal area lights.

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Publications

Analytic Spherical Harmonic Gradients for Real-Time Rendering with Many Polygonal Area Lights

In this paper, we develop a novel analytic formula for the spatial gradients of the spherical harmonic coefficients for uniform polygonal area lights.
Lifan Wu, Guangyan Cai, Shuang Zhao, Ravi Ramamoorthi
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Analytic Spherical Harmonic Gradients for Real-Time Rendering with Many Polygonal Area Lights

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