1. [Publications](/publications) 2. Temporal Light Field Reconstruction for Rendering Distribution Effects # Temporal Light Field Reconstruction for Rendering Distribution Effects ![](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/pubs/2011-08_Temporal-Light-Field/default.jpg?itok=q0CxVuBY) Traditionally, effects that require evaluating multidimensional integrals for each pixel, such as motion blur, depth of field, and soft shadows, suffer from noise due to the variance of the highdimensional integrand. In this paper, we describe a general reconstruction technique that exploits the anisotropy in the temporal light field and permits efficient reuse of samples between pixels, multiplying the effective sampling rate by a large factor. We show that our technique can be applied in situations that are challenging or impossible for previous anisotropic reconstruction methods, and that it can yield good results with very sparse inputs. We demonstrate our method for simultaneous motion blur, depth of field, and soft shadows. ## Authors [Jaakko Lehtinen](/person/jaakko-lehtinen) [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila) Jiawen Chen (MIT CSAIL) [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine) Frédo Durand (MIT CSAIL) ## Publication Date Monday, August 1, 2011 ## Published in [ACM Transactions in Graphics 30(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2011)](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1964950) ## Research Area [Computer Graphics](/research-area/computer-graphics) ## External Links [Project page (MIT)](http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/tlfr) ## Uploaded Files [lehtinen2011siggraph\_paper.pdf](https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2011-08_Temporal-Light-Field/lehtinen2011siggraph_paper.pdf "Open file in new window")24.33 MB [lehtinen2011siggraph\_slides.key\_.zip](https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2011-08_Temporal-Light-Field/lehtinen2011siggraph_slides.key_.zip "Open archive in new window")66.36 MB [lehtinen2011siggraph\_slides.pdf](https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2011-08_Temporal-Light-Field/lehtinen2011siggraph_slides.pdf "Open file in new window")44.76 MB ## Copyright Copyright by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from Publications Dept, ACM Inc., fax +1 (212) 869-0481, or . The definitive version of this paper can be found at ACM's Digital Library .