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 am cur­rently on sab­bat­ic­al at the Uni­versity of Tokyo un­til Fall 2025.

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 “Tensor­Flow” 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, Alexander Keller, Jorge Madrid-Wolff, Steve Marschner, Christophe Moser, Thomas Müller, Baptiste Nicolet, Jan Novák, Nicolas Roussel, Fabrice Rousselle, Delio Vicini, Zichen Wang, Felix Wechsler, Ekrem Fatih Yilmazer, and Ziyi Zhang.

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)