Tomas Akenine-Möller ![](/sites/default/files/person/tam3.jpg) Tomas Akenine-Möller joined NVIDIA Research in 2016, previously working at Intel and as a professor in computer graphics at Lund University, where he founded and built the computer graphics group. His expertise is in real-time rendering, ray tracing, and graphics hardware. In 2003, he co-authored the first Swedish SIGGRAPH papers ever, one on [mobile graphics](http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/graphics/research/papers/masses2003/) and another on [soft shadows](http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/graphics/research/papers/soft2003/). He is a co-author of the book [Real-Time Rendering](http://www.realtimerendering.com/), which is widely used in the real-time graphics industry and in academia, and of a [free interactive linear algebra book](http://immersivemath.com). He also co-edited, with Eric Haines, the book [Ray Tracing Gems](http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/), which is free as e-book in various formats. Tomas is currently is doing research on real-time rendering (surprise!). Publications prior to joining NVIDIA can be found [here ](http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/graphics/publications.shtml)and [here](http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/Personal/Tomas_Akenine-Moller/publications.html). Research Area(s) [Computer Graphics](/research-area/computer-graphics) [Real-Time Rendering](/research-area/real-time-rendering) [VR, AR and Display Technology](/research-area/virtual-augmented-reality) Main Field of Interest [Computer Graphics](/research-area/computer-graphics) Google Scholar [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ch4LHOgAAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=sra](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ch4LHOgAAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=sra) ### Publications ### 2024 [Estimates of Temporal Edge Detection Filters in Human Vision](/publication/2024-01_ted) [Pontus Ebelin](/person/pontus-ebelin), Gyorgy Denes, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/person/tomas-akenine-moller), Kalle Åström, Magnus Oskarsson, William H. McIlhagga [ACM Transactions on Applied Perception](https://dl.acm.org/journal/tap) ### 2023 [Random-Access Neural Compression of Material Textures](/index.php/publication/2023-08_random-access-neural-compression-material-textures) Karthik Vaidyanathan, Marco Salvi, [Bart Wronski](/index.php/person/bart-wronski), [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller), [Pontus Ebelin](/index.php/person/pontus-ebelin), [Aaron Lefohn](/index.php/person/aaron-lefohn) [SIGGRAPH 2023](https://s2023.siggraph.org/) SIGGRAPH 2023 Technical Papers Awards: Honorable Mention [Luminance-Preserving and Temporally Stable Daltonization](/index.php/publication/2023-05_daltonization) [Pontus Ebelin](/index.php/person/pontus-ebelin), [Cyril Crassin](/index.php/person/cyril-crassin), Gyorgy Denes, Magnus Oskarsson, Kalle Åström, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller) [Eurographics 2023 Short Papers](https://eg2023.saarland-informatics-campus.de/) [Tight Bounding Boxes for Voxels and Bricks in a Signed Distance Field Ray Tracer](/index.php/publication/2023-05_tight-bounding-boxes-voxels-and-bricks-signed-distance-field-ray-tracer) Herman Hansson-Söderlund, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller) [Eurographics Short Papers](https://eg2023.saarland-informatics-campus.de/) ### 2022 [Ray Tracing of Signed Distance Function Grids](/index.php/publication/2022-09_ray-tracing-signed-distance-function-grids) Herman Hansson-Söderlund, Alex Evans, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller) [Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, vol. 11, no. 3, 94-113, 2022](https://jcgt.org/published/0011/03/06/) [Spatiotemporal Blue Noise Masks](/index.php/publication/2022-07_spatiotemporal-blue-noise-masks) Alan Wolfe, Nathan Morrical, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller), Ravi Ramamoorthi [Eurographics Sympsium on Rendering 2022](https://egsr.eu/2022/) ### 2021 [Scalar Spatiotemporal Blue Noise Masks](/index.php/publication/2021-12_scalar-spatiotemporal-blue-noise-masks) Alan Wolfe, Nathan Morrical, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller), Ravi Ramamoorthi [arXiv:2112.09629](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09629) [Refraction Ray Cones for Texture Level of Detail](/index.php/publication/2021-08_refraction-ray-cones-texture-level-detail) Jakub Bokskansky, [Cyril Crassin](/index.php/person/cyril-crassin), [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller) [Ray Tracing Gems II, chapter 10, 2021.](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4842-7185-8_10) [Visualizing and Communicating Errors in Rendered Images](/index.php/publication/2021-08_visualizing-and-communicating-errors-rendered-images) [Pontus Ebelin](/index.php/person/pontus-ebelin), [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller), Jim Nilsson [Ray Tracing Gems II, chapter 19, 2021.](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4842-7185-8_19) [Differential Barycentric Coordinates](/index.php/publication/2021-08_differential-barycentric-coordinates) [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller) [Ray Tracing Gems II, chapter 6, 2021.](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4842-7185-8_6) [Visualizing Errors in Rendered High Dynamic Range Images](/index.php/publication/2021-05_visualizing-errors-rendered-high-dynamic-range-images) [Pontus Ebelin](/index.php/person/pontus-ebelin), Jim Nilsson, Peter Shirley, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller) [Eurographics Short Papers 2021](https://conferences.eg.org/eg2021/) [Improved Shader and Texture Level of Detail Using Ray Cones](/index.php/publication/2021-04_improved-shader-and-texture-level-detail-using-ray-cones) [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller), [Cyril Crassin](/index.php/person/cyril-crassin), Jakub Boksansky, Laurent Belcour, Alexey Panteleev, Oli Wright [Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, 2021](http://jcgt.org/published/0010/01/01/) ### 2020 [ꟻLIP: A Difference Evaluator for Alternating Images](/index.php/publication/flip) [Pontus Ebelin](/index.php/person/pontus-ebelin), Jim Nilsson, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller), Magnus Oskarsson, Kalle Åström, Mark D. Fairchild [High Performance Graphics 2020](https://www.highperformancegraphics.org/2020/) Wolfgang Straßer Award for 3rd best paper, High Performance Graphics 2020 [Understanding SSIM](/index.php/publication/2020-07_understanding-ssim) Jim Nilsson, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller) [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13846) ### 2019 [Temporally Dense Ray Tracing](/publication/tdrt) [Pontus Ebelin](/person/pontus-ebelin), Jim Nilsson, Marco Salvi, [Josef Spjut](/person/josef-spjut), [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/person/tomas-akenine-moller) [High Performance Graphics 2019](https://www.highperformancegraphics.org/2019/) [Ray Tracing Gems](/index.php/publication/2019-03_ray-tracing-gems) Eric Haines, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller) [Book, published by Apress.](http://raytracinggems.com) [What is a Ray?](/index.php/publication/2019-03_what-ray) Peter Shirley, Ingo Wald, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller), Eric Haines [Ray Tracing Gems](http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/) [Simple Environment Map Filtering Using Ray Cones and Ray Differentials](/index.php/publication/2019-03_simple-environment-map-filtering-using-ray-cones-and-ray-differentials) [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller), Jim Nilsson [Ray Tracing Gems](http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/) [Precision Improvements for Ray/Sphere Intersection](/index.php/publication/2019-03_precision-improvements-raysphere-intersection) Eric Haines, Johannes Gunther, [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller) [Ray Tracing Gems](http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/) [Texture Level of Detail Strategies for Real-Time Ray Tracing](/index.php/publication/2019-03_texture-level-detail-strategies-real-time-ray-tracing) [Tomas Akenine-Möller](/index.php/person/tomas-akenine-moller), Jim Nilsson, Magnus Andersson, Colin Barré-Brisebois, Robert Toth, [Tero Karras](/index.php/person/tero-karras) [Ray Tracing Gems](http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/)