About

I am a senior research scientist at Google Zurich, where I work on inverse rendering, digital humans and optical simulation. Before joining Google, I completed my PhD at EPFL's Realistic Graphics Lab, working under the supervision of Wenzel Jakob. My PhD thesis is on efficient and accurate physically-based differentiable rendering algorithms.

I obtained my bachelor at the University of Bern and my master from ETH Zurich, where I completed my master thesis at Disney Research. I worked as an intern for Facebook Reality Labs, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Research.

Publications

Solving Inverse PDE Problems using Monte Carlo Estimators

Ekrem Fatih Yilmazer, Delio Vicini, Wenzel Jakob.

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2024.

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LitNeRF: Intrinsic Radiance Decomposition for High-Quality View Synthesis and Relighting of Faces

Kripasindhu Sarkar, Marcel C. Bühler, Gengyan Li, Daoye Wang, Delio Vicini, Jérémy Riviere, Yinda Zhang, Sergio Orts-Escolano, Paulo Gotardo, Thabo Beeler, Abhimitra Meka.

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Papers, 2023.

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Differentiable Signed Distance Function Rendering

Delio Vicini, Sébastien Speierer, Wenzel Jakob.

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2022.

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Dr.Jit: A Just-In-Time Compiler for Differentiable Rendering

Wenzel Jakob, Sébastien Speierer, Nicolas Roussel, Delio Vicini.

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2022.

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Path Replay Backpropagation: Differentiating Light Paths using Constant Memory and Linear Time

Delio Vicini, Sébastien Speierer, Wenzel Jakob.

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2021.

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A Non-Exponential Transmittance Model for Volumetric Scene Representations

Delio Vicini, Wenzel Jakob, Anton Kaplanyan.

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2021.

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Mitsuba 2: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer

Merlin Nimier-David*, Delio Vicini*, Tizian Zeltner, Wenzel Jakob.

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2019.

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A Learned Shape-Adaptive Subsurface Scattering Model

Delio Vicini, Vladlen Koltun, Wenzel Jakob.

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2019.

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Denoising Deep Monte Carlo Renderings

Delio Vicini, David Adler, Jan Novák, Fabrice Rousselle, Brent Burley.

Computer Graphics Forum, 2019.

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Regularizing Image Reconstruction for Gradient-Domain Rendering with Feature Patches

Marco Manzi, Delio Vicini, Matthias Zwicker.

Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics), 2016.

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