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Biography

Thomas is a principal research scientist at NVIDIA working on the intersection of machine learning and (inverse) light transport simulation. His research won multiple best paper awards and is used in movie production (such as in Disney's Hyperion and RenderMan), 3D reconstruction and gaming. As part of his research, Thomas created several widely used open source frameworks, including instant-ngp, tiny-cuda-nn, and tev. Thomas holds a PhD from ETH Zürich & Disney Research and, in a past life, also developed large components of the online rhythm game "osu!".

Activities

Employment (2)

NVIDIA: Zürich, CH

2019-04-15 to present | Principal Research Scientist
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Thomas Müller

ETH Zürich: Zürich, CH

2016-04-01 to 2019-03-31 | Doctoral student (D-INFK)
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Thomas Müller

Education and qualifications (1)

ETH Zurich: Zurich, CH

2016-04 to 2019-04 | Dr. sc. ETH
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Works (25)

Compact Neural Graphics Primitives with Learned Hash Probing

2023-12-10 | Conference paper
Contributors: Towaki Takikawa; Thomas Müller; Merlin Nimier-David; Alex Evans; Sanja Fidler; Alec Jacobson; Alexander Keller
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Adaptive Shells for Efficient Neural Radiance Field Rendering

ACM Transactions on Graphics
2023-12-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Zian Wang; Tianchang Shen; Merlin Nimier-David; Nicholas Sharp; Jun Gao; Alexander Keller; Sanja Fidler; Thomas Müller; Zan Gojcic
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Recursive Control Variates for Inverse Rendering

ACM Transactions on Graphics
2023-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Baptiste Nicolet; Fabrice Rousselle; Jan Novak; Alexander Keller; Wenzel Jakob; Thomas Müller
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BundleSDF: Neural 6-DoF Tracking and 3D Reconstruction of Unknown Objects

CVPR 2023
2023-03-24 | Conference paper
Contributors: Bowen Wen; Jonathan Tremblay; Valts Blukis; Stephen Tyree; Thomas Müller; Alex Evans; Dieter Fox; Jan Kautz; Stan Birchfield
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Parallel Inversion of Neural Radiance Fields for Robust Pose Estimation

ICRA 2023
2022 | Conference paper | Software, Writing - original draft, Supervision
Contributors: Yunzhi Lin; Thomas Müller; Jonathan Tremblay; Bowen Wen; Stephen Tyree; Alex Evans; Patricio A. Vela; Stan Birchfield
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Instant Neural Radiance Fields

SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live!
2022-08-07 | Report
Contributors: Thomas Müller; Alex Evans; Christoph Schied; Marco Foco; András Bódis-Szomorú; Isaac Deutsch; Michael Shelley; Alexander Keller
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Variable Bitrate Neural Fields

SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings
2022-08-07 | Conference paper
Contributors: Towaki Takikawa; Alex Evans; Jonathan Tremblay; Thomas Müller; Morgan McGuire; Alec Jacobson; Sanja Fidler
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Instant neural graphics primitives with a multiresolution hash encoding

ACM Transactions on Graphics
2022-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0730-0301
Part of ISSN: 1557-7368
Contributors: Thomas Müller; Alex Evans; Christoph Schied; Alexander Keller
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Unbiased inverse volume rendering with differential trackers

ACM Transactions on Graphics
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Merlin Nimier-David; Thomas Müller; Alexander Keller; Wenzel Jakob
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Extracting Triangular 3D Models, Materials, and Lighting From Images

2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2022-06 | Conference paper
Contributors: Jacob Munkberg; Wenzheng Chen; Jon Hasselgren; Alex Evans; Tianchang Shen; Thomas Müller; Jun Gao; Sanja Fidler
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RTMV: A Ray-Traced Multi-View Synthetic Dataset for Novel View Synthesis

Learning to Generate 3D Shapes and Scenes (ECCV Workshop)
2022-05-14 | Conference paper
Contributors: Jonathan Tremblay; Moustafa Meshry; Alex Evans; Jan Kautz; Alexander Keller; Sameh Khamis; Thomas Müller; Charles Loop; Nathan Morrical; Koki Nagano et al.
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Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination Resampling

Computer Graphics Forum
2022-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0167-7055
Part of ISSN: 1467-8659
Contributors: Zander Majercik; Thomas Müller; Alexander Keller; Derek Nowrouzezahrai; Morgan McGuire
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Path Guiding Using Spatio‐Directional Mixture Models

Computer Graphics Forum
2022-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0167-7055
Part of ISSN: 1467-8659
Contributors: Ana Dodik; Marios Papas; Cengiz Öztireli; Thomas Müller
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Real-time neural radiance caching for path tracing

ACM Transactions on Graphics
2021-08-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0730-0301
Part of ISSN: 1557-7368
Contributors: Thomas Müller; Fabrice Rousselle; Jan Novák; Alexander Keller
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tiny-cuda-nn

2021-04 | Software
Contributors: Thomas Müller
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Thomas Müller

Neural control variates

ACM Transactions on Graphics
2020-12-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0730-0301
Part of ISSN: 1557-7368
Contributors: Thomas Müller; Fabrice Rousselle; Alexander Keller; Jan Novák
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Practical Product Sampling by Fitting and Composing Warps

Computer Graphics Forum
2020-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0167-7055
Part of ISSN: 1467-8659
Contributors: D. Hart; M. Pharr; Thomas Müller; W. Lopes; M. McGuire; P. Shirley
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Neural Importance Sampling

ACM Transactions on Graphics
2019-10-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Müller; Brian Mcwilliams; Fabrice Rousselle; Markus Gross; Jan Novák
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Path guiding in production

ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Courses
2019-07-28 | Book chapter
Contributors: Jiří Vorba; Johannes Hanika; Sebastian Herholz; Thomas Müller; Jaroslav Křivánek; Alexander Keller
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A radiative transfer framework for non-exponential media

ACM Transactions on Graphics
2018-12-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0730-0301
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Thomas Müller

Deep scattering: Rendering Atmospheric Clouds with Radiance-Predicting Neural Networks

ACM Transactions on Graphics
2017-11-20 | Journal article
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tev

2017-08 | Research tool
Contributors: Thomas Müller
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Thomas Müller

Practical Path Guiding for Efficient Light-Transport Simulation

Computer Graphics Forum
2017-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0167-7055
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Thomas Müller

2017 Cover Image: Mixing Bowl

Computer Graphics Forum
2017-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0167-7055
Contributors: Alessia Marra; Maurizio Nitti; Marios Papas; Thomas Müller; Markus Gross; Wojciech Jarosz; Jan ovák
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Efficient rendering of heterogeneous polydisperse granular media

ACM Transactions on Graphics
2016-11-11 | Journal article
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Thomas Müller

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Nature machine intelligence. (1)