A variance analysis of the Metropolis Light Transport algorithm
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چکیده
The Metropolis Light Transport algorithm is a variant of the classic Metropolis method used in statistical physics. A variance analysis of the Metropolis Light Transport algorithm is presented that bounds its variance in terms of the number of paths used and the intrinsic correlation between samples. It is shown that the variance of a pixel is where is the number of samples for the entire image. The analysis uses basic probability, Bayes’ law, and the principle of stationary distributions. This result implies that the presence of correlation in the algorithm does not make its asymptotic time complexity worse than uncorrelated Monte Carlo methods such as path tracing.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Computers & Graphics
دوره 25 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001