Timo Aila
| Timo Aila, Ph.D.
Principal Research Scientist |
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| Bio: Timo Aila joined NVIDIA Research in 2007 from Helsinki University of Technology, where he led the computer graphics research group. His expertise ranges from real-time rendering in computer games (eg. Max Payne, third-party engine development for numerous games, the first commercial occlusion culling library dPVS) to hardware architectures, and recently also to high-quality image synthesis with contributions to the PantaRay rendering system used in Avatar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Tintin. He also gained expertise in mobile graphics as the chief scientist of Hybrid Graphics, which was acquired by NVIDIA in 2006. Timo is currently working on pre-filtering of visibility and appearance. Previously he had a central role in NVIDIA's research efforts on ray tracing, stochastic rasterization, and light field reconstruction. |
| Research Interests: Rendering Algorithms, Dataflow in Massively Parallel Architectures, Computational Photography, Computer Vision |
| Publications:
Clipless Dual-Space Bounds for Faster Stochastic Rasterization Temporal Light Field Reconstruction for Rendering Distribution Effects A Local Image Reconstruction Algorithm for Stochastic Rendering PantaRay: Fast Ray-traced Occlusion Caching of Massive Scenes Architecture Considerations for Tracing Incoherent Rays Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs A Meshless Hierarchical Representation for Light Transport A Hardware Architecture for Surface Splatting Incremental Instant Radiosity for Real-Time Indirect Illumination An Improved Physically-Based Soft Shadow Volume Algorithm Ambient Occlusion for Animated Characters A Weighted Error Metric and Optimization Method for Antialiasing Patterns Soft Shadow Volumes for Ray Tracing Conservative and Tiled Rasterization Using a Modified Triangle Setup Hemispherical Rasterization for Self-Shadowing of Dynamic Objects Alias-Free Shadow Maps dPVS: An Occlusion Culling System for Massive Dynamic Environments A Hierarchical Shadow Volume Algorithm Delay Streams for Graphics Hardware |