NVIDIA is taking an array of advancements in rendering, simulation and generative AI to SIGGRAPH 2024, the premier computer graphics conference, which will take place July 28 Aug. 1 in Denver.
More than 20 papers from NVIDIA Research introduce innovations advancing synthetic data generators and inverse rendering tools that can help train next-generation models. NVIDIA's AI research is making simulation better by boosting image quality and unlocking new ways to create 3D representations of real or imagined worlds.
The papers focus on diffusion models for visual generative AI, physics-based simulation and increasingly realistic AI-powered rendering. They include two technical Best Paper Award winners and collaborations with universities across the U.S., Canada, China, Israel and Japan as well as researchers at companies including Adobe and Roblox.
These initiatives will help create tools that developers and businesses can use to generate complex virtual objects, characters and environments. Synthetic data generation can then be harnessed to tell powerful visual stories, aid scientists' understanding of natural phenomena or assist in simulation-based training of robots and autonomous vehicles.
Diffusion Models Improve Texture Painting, Text-to-Image Generation Diffusion models, a popular tool for transforming text prompts into images, can help artists, designers and other creators rapidly generate visuals for storyboards or production, reducing the time it takes to bring ideas to life.
Two NVIDIA-authored papers are advancing the capabilities of these generative AI models.
ConsiStory, a collaboration between researchers at NVIDIA and Tel Aviv University, makes it easier to generate multiple images with a consistent main character - an essential capability for storytelling use cases such as illustrating a comic strip or developing a storyboard. The researchers' approach introduces a technique called subject-driven shared attention, which reduces the time it takes to generate consistent imagery from 13 minutes to around 30 seconds.
ConsiStory is capable of generating a series of images featuring the same character. NVIDIA researchers last year won the Best in Show award at SIGGRAPH's Real-Time Live event for AI models that turn text or image prompts into custom textured materials. This year, they're presenting a paper that applies 2D generative diffusion models to interactive texture painting on 3D meshes, enabling artists to paint in real time with complex textures based on any reference image.
Kick-Starting Developments in Physics-Based Simulation Graphics researchers are narrowing the gap between physical objects and their virtual representations with physics-based simulation - a range of techniques to make digital objects and characters move the same way they would in the real world.
Several NVIDIA Research papers feature breakthroughs in the field, including SuperPADL, a project that tackles the challenge of simulating complex human motions based on text prompts (see video at top).
Using a combination of reinforcement learning and supervised learning, the researchers demonstrated how the SuperPADL framework can be trained to reproduce the motion of more than 5,000 skills - and can run in real time on a consumer-grade NVIDIA GPU.
Another NVIDIA paper features a neural physics method that applies AI to learn how objects - whether represented as a 3D mesh, a NeRF or a solid object generated by a text-to-3D model - would behave as they are moved in an environment.
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A paper written in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University researchers develops a new kind of renderer - one that, instead of modeling physical light, can perform thermal analysis, electrostatics and fluid mechanics. Named one of five best papers at SIGGRAPH, the method is easy to parallelize and doesn't require cumbersome model cleanup, offering new opportunities for speeding up engineering design cycles.
In the example above, the renderer performs a thermal analysis of the Mars Curiosity rover, where keeping temperatures within a specific range is critical to mission success.
Additional simulation papers introduce a more efficient technique for modeling hair strands and a pipeline that accelerates fluid simulation by 10x.
Raising the Bar for Rendering Realism, Diffraction Simulation Another set of NVIDIA-authored papers present new techniques to model visible light up to 25x faster and simulate diffraction effects - such as those used in radar simulation for training self-driving cars - up to 1,000x faster.
A paper by NVIDIA and University of Waterloo researchers tackles free-space diffraction, an optical phenomenon where light spreads out or bends around the edges of objects. The team's method can integrate with path-tracing workflows to increase the efficiency of simulating diffraction in complex scenes, offering up to 1,000x acceleration. Beyond rendering visible light, the model could also be used to simulate the longer wavelengths of radar, sound or radio waves.
Simulation of cellular signal coverage in a city. Path tracing samples numerous paths - multi-bounce light rays traveling through a scene - to create a photorealistic picture. Two SIGGRAPH papers improve sampling quality for ReSTIR, a path-tracing algorithm first introduced by NVIDIA and Dartmouth College researchers at SIGGRAPH 2020 that has been key to bringing path tracing to games and other real-time rendering products.
One of these papers, a collaboration with the University of Utah, shares a new way to reuse calculated paths that increases effective sample count by up to 25x, significantly boosting image quality. The other improves sample quality by randomly mutating a subset of the light's path. This helps denoising algorithms perform be
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NVIDIA is taking an array of advancements in rendering, simulation and generative AI to SIGGRAPH 2024, the premier computer graphics conference, which will take place July 28 Aug. 1 in Denver.
