Johannes Günther Computer Graphics Group Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik Campus E1 4 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany guenther@mpi-inf.mpg.de

Short CV

Research Topics:

• Realtime Ray Tracing
• Global Illumination

Publications:

	J. Günther, S. Popov, H.-P. Seidel, and P. Slusallek Realtime Ray Tracing on GPU with BVH-based Packet Traversal In: Proceedings of the IEEE/Eurographics Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2007, pp. 113–118
	I. Wald, W.R. Mark, J. Günther, S. Boulos, T. Ize, W. Hunt, S.G. Parker, and P. Shirley State of the Art in Ray Tracing Animated Scenes In: STAR Proceedings of Eurographics, pp. 89–116, 2007
	S. Popov, J. Günther, H.-P. Seidel, and P. Slusallek Stackless KD-Tree Traversal for High Performance GPU Ray Tracing In: Computer Graphics Forum 26(3), pp. 415–424, 2007, (Proceedings of Eurographics)
	S. Popov, J. Günther, H.-P. Seidel, and P. Slusallek Experiences with Streaming Construction of SAH KD-Trees (Best Paper Award) In: Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, pp. 89–94, 2006
	I. Wald, A. Dietrich, C. Benthin, A. Efremov, T. Dahmen, J. Günther, V. Havran, H.-P. Seidel, and P. Slusallek A Ray Tracing based Framework for High-Quality Virtual Reality in Industrial Design Applications In: Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, pp. 177–185, 2006
	H. Friedrich, J. Günther, A. Dietrich, M. Scherbaum, H.-P. Seidel, and P. Slusallek Exploring the Use of Ray Tracing for Future Games In: Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Symposium, pp. 41–50, 2006
	J. Günther, H. Friedrich, H.-P. Seidel, and P. Slusallek Interactive Ray Tracing of Skinned Animations In: The Visual Computer, pp. 785–792, 2006, (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics)
	J. Günther, H. Friedrich, I. Wald, H.-P. Seidel, and P. Slusallek Ray Tracing Animated Scenes using Motion Decomposition In: Computer Graphics Forum 25(3), pp. 517–525, 2006, (Proceedings of Eurographics)
	J. Günther, T. Chen, M. Goesele, I. Wald, and H.-P. Seidel Effcient Acquisition and Realistic Rendering of Car Paint In: Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization, pp. 487–494, 2005
	J. Günther, I. Wald, P. Slusallek Realtime Caustics using Distributed Photon Mapping In: Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, pp. 111–121, 2004
	I. Wald, J. Günther, P. Slusallek Balancing Considered Harmful – Faster Photon Mapping using the Voxel Volume Heuristic In: Computer Graphics Forum 22(3), pp. 595–604, 2004, (Proceedings of Eurographics)

Sketches and Cover Images:

	J. Günther, I. Wald, H.-P. Seidel Precomputed Light Sets for Fast High Quality Global Illumination In: ACM SIGGRAPH 2005: Sketches and Applications, 2005
	J. Günther, I. Wald Kaustik-Berechnung in Echtzeit (Cover Image) In: Informatik Spektrum 28(2), 2005

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