| Budget Amount *help |
¥23,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥18,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥5,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,320,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥5,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,320,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥5,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,320,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥6,240,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,440,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Light transport simulation is an important technique for synthesizing photorealistic images. Accelerating the computation of light transport simulation is thus much needed in many practical applications. Light transport simulation is usually formulated as a definite integral derived from geometric optics, and Monte Carlo methods are often used to estimate the solution to this integral. In this project, we focused on Markov chain Monte Carlo methods which are considered to be superior to Monte Carlo methods in many problems. In particular, we were able to remove the fundamental sequential nature of Markov chains, which is not suitable for parallel computation, by developing novel ensemble Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.
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