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Peter Shirley

Peter Shirley received his BA in Physics from Reed College and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.   He has held academic positions at Indiana University, Cornell University, and the University of Utah.   He has authored a number of books on computer graphics and ray tracing.

Research Area(s)
Algorithms and Numerical Methods
Computational Photography and Imaging
Computer Graphics
Hyperscale Graphics
Real-Time Rendering
VR, AR and Display Technology
Google Scholar
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Publications

2021

Visualizing Errors in Rendered High Dynamic Range Images
Pontus Andersson, Jim Nilsson, Peter Shirley, Tomas Akenine-Möller
Eurographics Short Papers 2021

2020

Glossy Probe Reprojection for Interactive Global Illumination
Simon Rodriguez, Thomas Leimkühler, Siddhant Prakash, Chris Wyman, Peter Shirley, George Drettakis
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2020)
Spatiotemporal reservoir resampling for real-time ray tracing with dynamic direct lighting
Benedikt Bitterli, Chris Wyman, Matt Pharr, Peter Shirley, Aaron Lefohn, Wojciech Jarosz
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020)
Practical Product Sampling by Fitting and Composing Warps
David Hart, Matt Pharr, Thomas Müller, Ward Lopes, Morgan McGuire, Peter Shirley
EuroGraphics Symposium on Rendering
A Taxonomy of Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function Lobes for Rendering Engineers
Morgan McGuire, Julie Dorsey, John F. Hughes, Steve Marschner, Matt Pharr, Peter Shirley
EuroGraphics Workshop on Material Appearance Modeling

2019

Matching Prescription & Visual Acuity: Towards AR for Humans
Jonghyun Kim, Michael Stengel, Jui-Yi Wu, Ben Boudaoud, Josef Spjut, Kaan Akşit, Rachel Albert, Youngmo Jeong, Trey Greer, Ward Lopes, Zander Majercik, Peter Shirley, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke
SIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging Technology
Best in Show Award - Emerging Technology in SIGGRAPH 2019
Foveated AR: Dynamically-Foveated Augmented Reality Display
Jonghyun Kim, Youngmo Jeong, Michael Stengel, Kaan Akşit, Rachel Albert, Ben Boudaoud, Trey Greer, Joohwan Kim, Ward Lopes, Zander Majercik, Peter Shirley, Josef Spjut, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke
SIGGRAPH 2019 Technical Paper
What is a Ray?
Peter Shirley, Ingo Wald, Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines
Ray Tracing Gems

2018

A Ray-Box Intersection Algorithm and Efficient Dynamic Voxel Rendering
Zander Majercik, Cyril Crassin, Peter Shirley, Morgan McGuire
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques

2017

Near-Eye Varifocal Augmented Reality Display using See-Through Screens
Kaan Akşit, Ward Lopes, Jonghyun Kim, Peter Shirley, David Luebke
ACM Siggraph Asia 2017
Varifocal Virtuality: A Novel Optical Layout for Near-Eye Display
Kaan Akşit, Ward Lopes, Jonghyun Kim, Josef Spjut, Peter Shirley, David Luebke
ACM Siggraph Emerging Technologies
Generating stratified random lines in a square
Peter Shirley, Chris Wyman
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques

2015

CloudLight: A System for Amortizing Indirect Lighting in Real-Time Rendering
Cyril Crassin, David Luebke, Michael Mara, Morgan McGuire, Brent Oster, Peter Shirley, Peter-Pike Sloan, Chris Wyman
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques

2013

CloudLight: A system for amortizing indirect lighting in real-time rendering (Technical Report)
Cyril Crassin, David Luebke, Michael Mara, Morgan McGuire, Brent Oster, Peter Shirley, Peter-Pike Sloan, Chris Wyman
Simple Analytic Approximations to the CIE XYZ Color Matching Functions
Chris Wyman, Peter-Pike Sloan, Peter Shirley
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques

2011

Stochastic Transparency
Eric Enderton, Erik Sintorn, Peter Shirley, David Luebke
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (original version in S…
A Local Image Reconstruction Algorithm for Stochastic Rendering
Peter Shirley, Timo Aila, Jonathan Cohen, Eric Enderton, Samuli Laine, David Luebke, Morgan McGuire
i3D

2010

Real-Time Stochastic Rasterization on Conventional GPU Architectures
Morgan McGuire, Eric Enderton, Peter Shirley, David Luebke
High Performance Graphics 2010

2009

Image Space Gathering
Austin Robison, Peter Shirley
Proc. High-Performance Graphics