iD3D 2011 [SIGGRAPH] - San Francisco, Feb 18-20

[caveman-jim]

The papers at iD3D this year look quite interesting, especially NVIDIA's SRAA.

http://graphics.cs.umass.edu/i3d2011/papers.php

I'm looking find out more about the following:

• A Local Image Reconstruction Algorithm for Stochastic Rendering -
  Peter Shirley, Timo Aila, Jonathan Cohen, Eric Enderton, Samuli Laine, David Luebke, Morgan McGuire [NVIDIA]
• Subpixel Reconstruction Antialiasing - Matthäus G. Chajdas, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke [NVIDIA]
• High Quality Elliptical Texture Filtering on GPU - Pavlos Mavridis, Georgios Papaioannou [Athens University]
• Real-Time Volumetric Shadows using 1D Min-Max Mipmaps - Jiawen Chen, Ilya Baran, Fredo Durand, Wojciech Jarosz [MIT]
• Collision-Streams: Fast GPU-based Collision Detection for Deformable Models - Min Tang, Dinesh Manocha, Jiang Lin, and Ruofeng Tong [UNC]
• Hardware-Accelerated Colored Stochastic Shadow Maps - Morgan McGuire, Eric Enderton [NVIDIA]
• Sample Distribution Shadow Maps - Andrew Lauritzen, Marco Salvi, Aaron Lefohn [INTEL] (appears to be an update?)
• GPU Surface Curvature Estimation on Deformable Meshes - Wesley Griffin, Yu Wang, David Berrios, Marc Olano [University of Maryland]

[caveman-jim]

Looks like there are some interesting short presentations as well:

• Using Perceptual Features to Prioritize Ray-based Image Generation
• Efficient Adaptive Tiling for Programmable Rendering
• Interactive Indirect Illumination Using Voxel Cone Tracing
• Poisson Disk Ray-Marched Ambient Occlusion
• gHull: A Three-dimensional Convex Hull Algorithm for Graphics Hardware
• Level-of-Detail and Streaming Optimized Irradiance Normal Mapping
• Multi-pass Rendering of Stereoscopic Video on Consumer Graphics Cards

http://graphics.cs.umass.edu/i3d2011/posters.php

Accepted poster authors will have an opportunity to present a 1-2 minute talk during a poster "Fast Forward" session. A special poster session scheduled during the conference will provide a more informal setting to present your work, allowing one-on-one discussions with attendees. Poster presenters will be responsible for printing and transporting their own poster. You should plan to give demos on a laptop, as we may be unable to guarantee access to a power supply during the poster session.

[SIrPauly]

This looks nice, too:

http://www.pmavridis.com/ewa.html

[caveman-jim]

That's the third item on my list in the OP.

[SIrPauly]

Yeah, and it looks nice!

[moshpit]

So are these features for future GPUs or coming for existing ones is my biggest question?

[caveman-jim]

Neither, these are research papers. They might end up in future GPU drivers or tech, or they might not. They might be used in future game engines or games, they might not.

[Dwarden]

i find High Quality Elliptical Texture Filtering on GPU to be quite interesting and hope it or something like it ends in future GPUs

wish it can be used already on latest generation (but no idea if that's possible)