Literature Review for Ray Tracing

The compilation of literature on ray tracing discussed in various conferences in recent years. The conference links provide the article directories for each year’s conference, including those that do not include articles related to ray tracing.

Paper Links

2017 - Unleashing the power of GPU for physically-based rendering via dynamic ray shuffling
2021 - Intersection Prediction for Accelerated GPU Ray Tracing
2022 - Vulkan-Sim: A GPU Architecture Simulator for Ray Tracing
2023 - Treelet Prefetching for Ray Tracing

Others

1997 - Rendering Complex Scenes with Memory-Coherent Ray Tracing: Ray Sorting
2002 - SaarCOR: a hardware architecture for ray tracing
2005 - RPU: a programmable ray processing unit for realtime ray tracing
2006 - Ray tracing for the movie ‘cars’
2007 - Dynamic Ray Scheduling to Improve Ray Coherence and Bandwidth Utilization: Treelet Based Ray Tracing Techniques
2007 - Interactive k-d tree GPU raytracing
2009 - Understanding the efficiency of ray traversal on GPUs
2009 - TRaX: A multicore hardware architecture for real-time ray tracing
2010 - Architecture considerations for tracing incoherent rays: First proposed treelet
2010 - Fast Ray Sorting and Breadth-First Packet Traversal for GPU Ray Tracing: BFS Traversal
2010 - Cache-Oblivious Ray Reordering: Ray Sorting
2010 - Architecture considerations for tracing incoherent rays
2010 - Efficient MIMD architectures for high-performance ray tracing
2011 - T&I engine: Traversal and intersection engine for hardware accelerated ray tracing
2011 - Efficient Stack-Less BVH Traversal for Ray Tracing
2013 - SGRT: A mobile GPU architecture for real-time ray tracing
2013 - GPU Ray Tracing
2014 - Latency Considerations of Depth-first GPU Ray Tracing: DFS Traversal
2014 - Embree: A Kernel Framework for Efficient CPU Ray Tracing: CPU Framework
2014 - RayCore: A ray-tracing hardware architecture for mobile devices
2015 - Memory considerations for low energy ray tracing: treelet on GPU
2017 - Efficient Incoherent Ray Traversal on GPUs through Compressed Wide BVHs: Wide BVH trees
2017 - Toward real-time ray tracing: A survey on hardware acceleration and microarchitecture techniques
2018 - Dual Streaming for Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing: Treelet Based Ray Tracing
2019 - An Introduction to Ray Tracing
2019 - Vulkan examples for ray traced shadows and reflections using VK_NV_ray_tracing
2019 - It Just Works: Ray-Traced Reflections in ’Battlefield V’
2019 - Are We Done with Ray Tracing?
2019 - Hash-Based Ray Path Prediction: Skipping BVH Traversal Computation by Exploiting Ray Locality
2019 - Hybrid rendering for real-time ray tracing
2020 - On Ray Reordering Techniques for Faster GPU Ray Tracing: Ray Sorting
2020 - GraphPulse: An Event-Driven Hardware Accelerator for Asynchronous Graph Processing: Graph node prefetcher
2020 - Hybrid Rendering: In Pursuit of Real-Time Raytracing
2021 - A Survey on Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Ray Tracing: BVH Traversal Algorithms
2021 - Rays Your Game: Introduction to the PowerVR Photon Architecture
2021 - Ray Tracing Gems II
2021 - Vulkan Vision: Ray tracing workload characterization using automatic graphics instrumentation
2021 - NVIDIA OptiX 7.7 – Programming Guide
2021 - Agglomerative Memory and Thread Scheduling for High Performance Ray Tracing on GPUs
2023 - DirectX Raytracing (DXR) Functional Spec
2023 - LumiBench: A Benchmark Suite for Hardware Ray Tracing: Benchmark