Benedikt Bitterli

Rendering, light transport and a few sprinkles of physically based simulation. Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA.
Views and opinions are my own, not NVIDIA's.

[Benedikt Bitterli @tunabrain]

@mirror2mask Congratulations!

[Benedikt Bitterli @tunabrain]

Excited to share some personal news!

[Rachel @rebrooks92]

A promising development in US-Swiss relations :)

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@ossim_zack @iliyang @BoZhu88252235 @wkjarosz Congratulations Zack! Wishing all the best for your future endeavors.

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@yiningkarlli I don't know what you're talking about! I'm only 300 hours into my Space Exploration save, and I'm at least halfway done!

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@SteinbergShlomi Congratulations!

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@Tobi4sDE Is that a custom flex PCB in the second image?

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@wenzeljakob "But they were, all of them, deceived, for another badge was made."

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@nothings I'm curious, does GPT-4 do better at reversing words? I found Bard and GPT3.5 will output straight gibberish if you ask it to reverse words it hasn't seen in reverse before (and will then lie about it). Does GPT-4 do better than memorizing?

[Benedikt Bitterli @tunabrain]

@SteinbergShlomi Congratulations!

[Benedikt Bitterli @tunabrain]

All scenes on the rendering resources page have been updated to support Mitsuba 3. Big thanks to @seb_spe for doing the work!

Grab the scenes here:
https://t.co/1AcrpnikQN

[Wenzel Jakob {deprecation notice} @wenzeljakob]

*Mitsuba 3* is now available! It's a major redesign of the lab's infrastructure for differentiable rendering building on the Dr.Jit just-in-time compiler announced yesterday. Full video link: https://t.co/WnfnRWiICm 1/10

[Benedikt Bitterli @tunabrain]

@kerensharon1 This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this.

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Looking forward to (virtually) presenting our work with @ejdeon about accelerating microfacet multiple scattering at EGSR later today!
https://t.co/JLAsz1577H

[Benedikt Bitterli @tunabrain]

@TubeTimeUS Wow! Absolutely incredible photos. I was not previously familiar with your work but preordered immediately. Extremely well done!

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@_AlecJacobson Congratulations! Well deserved.

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@levork I wholeheartedly support this effort. Flammekueche is delicious!

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@BenKrasnow When processing glass on a mill/lathe, is there concern about glass dust/slurry going into the ways? Do you have tricks to deal with that or is it a non-issue?

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@yiningkarlli @tylermorganwall Wow! I knew phone lenses did weird stuff, but that's incredible. I really wonder how they even manufacture lenses like this - is this some kind of injection molded plastic, or is this a wholly different exotic manufacturing process I've never heard of?

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@SteinbergShlomi Congratulations!

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@BrianKaris Super interesting! Same fidelity than NeRF, much faster training, but much poorer fidelity per bit (~500MB vs 5MB). Neural networks are not magic, but they are data efficient basis functions in this case (i.e. natural scenes).

[Benedikt Bitterli @tunabrain]

It's done! I successfully passed my PhD defense today.

A big thanks to my thesis committee, @wkjarosz, @BoZhu88252235, @jaakkolehtinen, Steve Marschner and Peter Winkler for committing their time, and their kind comments.

Onward to new things!