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title = "Radiance Caching for Real-Time Volumetric Rendering"
description = "Master's Thesis — TUM"
date = "2025-12-01"
period = "12/2025 — 06/2026"
tags = ["C++", "CUDA", "Vulkan", "OptiX"]
categories = ["programming"]
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Researched and implemented a real-time radiance cache for volumetric path tracing using 3D Gaussian Splatting and a fused MLP as the cache representation.

Developed an online differentiable optimization pipeline in CUDA that adapts the Gaussian cache to dynamic lighting and transfer function changes during rendering.

Built a spatial-hash-based fused MLP for radiance caching on volumetric heterogeneous media. Supervised by Prof. Westermann.