SIGGRAPH 2024: NVIDIA Pioneers Simulation & AI

A variety of rendering, simulation, and generative AI innovations are being brought by NVIDIA to SIGGRAPH 2024

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The studies centre on physics-based simulation, increasingly lifelike AI-powered rendering, and diffusion models for visual generative AI

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These projects will contribute to the development of tools that businesses and developers may use to construct intricate virtual settings, characters, and items

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Diffusion models can assist artists, designers, and other creators in quickly creating visuals for storyboards or production

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In a separate group of publications, NVIDIA presents novel methods for simulating diffraction effects, which are utilised in radar modelling to train self-driving cars

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The model could be used to replicate longer wavelengths of radio waves, radar, or sound in addition to visible light

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This improves the performance of denoising techniques and reduces visual artefacts in the final output

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