Thesis Probabilistic Visibility - Introduction

I am Niels Billen, a graduate student in Computer Sciences, at the KULeuven University in Belgium. In the coming year I'll start working on my thesis under the watchfull eye of prof. dr. ir. Philip Dutré. The subject of my thesis is Probabilistic Visibility in Computer Graphics.

In this thesis I'll try develop a novel algorithm to accelerate the calculation of the visibility function in a scene. This will be done by reducing the number of object-ray intersection not (only) by using a spatial acceleration structure, but intersecting only a subset of the objects in a stochastic manner.

The implementation of the algorithm will be in C++, probably by expanding on code of the PBRT engine. I have never programmed in C++ however, so mastering C++ will be a fine starting point for my thesis.

I'll blog regularly about my progress, so stay tuned for more updates.