Wenzel Jakob | RGL (original) (raw)

I am an as­so­ci­ate pro­fess­or lead­ing the Real­ist­ic Graph­ics Lab at EPFL's School of Com­puter and Com­mu­nic­a­tion Sci­ences.

Note: I plan to re­cruit two PhD stu­dents through the EDIC pro­gram in this ad­mis­sions cycle (ap­plic­a­tion dead­line: Dec 15). If you are in­ter­ested in work­ing with me, please ap­ply to this pro­gram. I will reach out to you in mid-Janu­ary as part of this pro­cess, though I am happy to an­swer any ques­tions any time.

My re­search re­volves around in­verse graph­ics, ap­pear­ance mod­el­ing and phys­ic­ally based ren­der­ing al­gorithms. The mo­tiv­at­ing idea is eas­ily ex­plained: if one could back­propag­ate de­riv­at­ives through a ren­der­ing al­gorithm, then it should be pos­sible to em­ploy a vari­ant of gradi­ent des­cent to run a ren­der­ing al­gorithm “in re­verse” and re­con­struct the world from im­ages or oth­er kinds of data. This turns out to be harder than one would think, which makes it an in­ter­est­ing re­search top­ic. I also en­joy work­ing on com­pilers + sys­tems and tinker­ing with op­tic­al as­sem­blies in our meas­ure­ment lab. I would like to build a truly ro­bust and gen­er­al “Py­T­orch” for phys­ic­ally real­ist­ic in­verse graph­ics and con­nect it to use­ful ap­plic­a­tions in dif­fer­ent sci­entif­ic do­mains.

I have re­ceived the ACM SIGGRAPH Sig­ni­fic­ant Re­search­er award, the Euro­graph­ics Young Re­search­er Award, and an ERC Start­ing Grant. My group de­vel­ops the Mit­suba ren­der­er, a re­search-ori­ented ren­der­ing sys­tem, and I am one of the au­thors of the third and fourth edi­tions of Phys­ic­ally Based Ren­der­ing: From The­ory To Im­ple­ment­a­tion. As part of my re­search, I have cre­ated widely used open source frame­works, in­clud­ing py­bind11, In­stant Meshes (SGP Soft­ware Award re­cip­i­ent), NanoGUI, nan­o­bind, and En­oki.

See the fol­low­ing two videos for an over­view of some of our on­go­ing work on Mit­suba 3 (the sys­tem), dif­fer­en­ti­able ren­der­ing (the al­gorithms) and ma­ter­i­al ac­quis­i­tion (op­tic­al meas­ur­ments done at EPFL). You can also find me on Mas­to­don and Twit­ter.

Bio: I com­pleted my Ph.D. at the De­part­ment of Com­puter Sci­ence at Cor­nell Uni­versity, where I was ad­vised by Steve Marschner. Be­fore com­ing to EPFL, I was a Mar­ie Curie postdoc­tor­al fel­low at ETH Zürich's In­ter­act­ive Geo­metry Lab work­ing with Olga Sork­ine-Hornung.

Automatically generated from publications in the last two years:, Diego Gutierrez, Adrian Jarabo, Jorge Madrid-Wolff, Steve Marschner, Christophe Moser, Baptiste Nicolet, Nicolas Roussel, Delio Vicini, Zichen Wang, Felix Wechsler, Ekrem Fatih Yilmazer, and Ziyi Zhang.

Ziyi Zhang, Nicolas Roussel, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2025)

Baptiste Nicolet, Felix Wechsler, Jorge Madrid-Wolff, Christophe Moser, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2024)

Ekrem Fatih Yilmazer, Delio Vicini, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2024)

Zichen Wang, Xi Deng, Ziyi Zhang, Wenzel Jakob, and Steve Marschner

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2024)

Ziyi Zhang, Nicolas Roussel, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2023)

Baptiste Nicolet, Fabrice Rousselle, Jan Novák, Alexander Keller, Wenzel Jakob, and Thomas Müller

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2023)

Wenzel Jakob, Sébastien Speierer, Nicolas Roussel, and Delio Vicini

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2022)

Delio Vicini, Sébastien Speierer, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2022)

Merlin Nimier-David, Thomas Müller, Alexander Keller, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2022)

Baptiste Nicolet, Alec Jacobson, and Wenzel Jakob

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2021)

Delio Vicini, Wenzel Jakob, and Anton Kaplanyan

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2021)

Tizian Zeltner, Sébastien Speierer, Iliyan Georgiev, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2021)

Delio Vicini, Sébastien Speierer, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2021)

Merlin Nimier-David, Zhao Dong, Wenzel Jakob, and Anton Kaplanyan

In Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing (DL-only Track)

Guillaume Loubet, Tizian Zeltner, Nicolas Holzschuch, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2020)

Ibón Guillén, Julio Marco, Diego Gutierrez, Wenzel Jakob, and Adrian Jarabo

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2020)

Merlin Nimier-David, Sébastien Speierer, Benoît Ruiz, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2020)

Tizian Zeltner, Iliyan Georgiev, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2020)

Seung-Hwan Baek, Tizian Zeltner, Hyun Jin Ku, Inseung Hwang, Xin Tong, Wenzel Jakob, and Min H. Kim

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2020)

Stavros Diolatzis, Adrien Gruson, Wenzel Jakob, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, and George Drettakis

In In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing 2020)

Gilles Rainer, Abhijeet Ghosh, Wenzel Jakob, and Tim Weyrich

In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics 2020)

Merlin Nimier-David, Delio Vicini, Tizian Zeltner, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2019)

Guillaume Loubet, Nicolas Holzschuch, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2019)

Alisa Jung, Alexander Wilkie, Johannes Hanika, Wenzel Jakob, and Carsten Dachsbacher

In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing 2019)

Delio Vicini, Vladlen Koltun, and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2019)

Wenzel Jakob and Johannes Hanika

In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics 2019)

Gilles Rainer, Wenzel Jakob, Abhijeet Ghosh, and Tim Weyrich

In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics 2019)

Jonathan Dupuy and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2018)

Tizian Zeltner and Wenzel Jakob

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2018)

David Körner, Jamie Portsmouth, and Wenzel Jakob

In Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing (2018) - Ex­per­i­ment­al Ideas & Im­ple­ment­a­tions

Sebastian Werner, Zdravko Velinov, Wenzel Jakob, and Matthias Hullin

In Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2017)

Benedikt Bitterli, Wenzel Jakob, Jan Novák, and Wojciech Jarosz

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (2017), presen­ted at SIG­GRAPH 2018

Xifeng Gao, Wenzel Jakob, Marco Tarini, and Daniele Panozzo

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2017)

Nico Schertler, Marco Tarini, Wenzel Jakob, Misha Kazhdan, Stefan Gumhold, and Daniele Panozzo

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2017)

Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys

Wenzel Jakob

Book chapter Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Meth­ods (Spring­er Pro­ceed­ings in Math­em­at­ics & Stat­ist­ics)

Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner

In Com­mu­nic­a­tions of the ACM (Novem­ber 2015)

Wenzel Jakob, Marco Tarini, Daniele Panozzo, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2015)

Tzu-Mao Li, Jaakko Lehtinen, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Wenzel Jakob, and Frédo Durand

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2015)

Henning Zimmer, Fabrice Rousselle, Wenzel Jakob, Oliver Wang, David Adler, Wojciech Jarosz, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, and Alexander Sorkine-Hornung

In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing 2015)

Shuang Zhao, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner, and Kavita Bala

In Com­mu­nic­a­tions of the ACM (Novem­ber 2014)

Wenzel Jakob, Eugene D'Eon, Otto Jakob, and Steve Marschner

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2014)

Wenzel Jakob, Miloš Hašan, Ling-Qi Yan, Jason Lawrence, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Steve Marschner

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2014)

Ling-Qi Yan, Miloš Hašan, Wenzel Jakob, Jason Lawrence, Steve Marschner, and Ravi Ramamoorthi

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2014)

Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2012)

Shuang Zhao, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner, and Kavita Bala

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2012)

Shuang Zhao, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner, and Kavita Bala

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2011)

Wenzel Jakob, Christian Regg, and Wojciech Jarosz

In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics Sym­posi­um on Ren­der­ing 2011)

Marios Papas, Wojciech Jarosz, Wenzel Jakob, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Wojciech Matusik, and Tim Weyrich

In Com­puter Graph­ics For­um (Pro­ceed­ings of Euro­graph­ics)

Wenzel Jakob, Jonathan T. Moon, Adam Arbree, Kavita Bala, and Steve Marschner

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH 2010)

Wenzel Jakob, Jonathan T. Moon, and Steve Marschner

In ACM Trans­ac­tions on Graph­ics (Pro­ceed­ings of SIG­GRAPH Asia 2009)