Research

Research Statement

I am currently interested in algorithms for computer graphics—and specifically for rendering the 'right' way—that is, trying to render things as accurately as possible, even if it's imperceptible or impractical.

I also have an interest in "clever" algorithms—and to some extent, hardware—for high-performance graphics. More generally, my research interests include real-time rendering / graphics algorithms, including applications of general-purpose compute to rendering, the mathematics of light transport, and the theory and algorithms associated with various graphics problems.

I received my PhD from the University of Utah in Computer Science.

Research Bio

I first (officially) started computer graphics research as an undergraduate researcher, working on anisotropic filtering, under the advisement of Pradeep Sen in the Advanced Graphics Laboratory (AGL)^[1] at the University of New Mexico (UNM). I did work on BRDF parametrization (my CS honors thesis) from fall 2013 until my graduation under the advisement of Lance Williams. After graduation, I joined the University of Utah (UofU) CS PhD program, where I worked under the advisement of Cem Yuksel (I was somewhat co-advised by Erik Brunvand), where I was a member of the Utah Graphics Lab and associated with the Utah Hardware Raytracing Group (HWRT). I also did an internship at NVIDIA Research. I have recently graduated with my PhD and am looking at what comes next.

Selected Publications

Please cite my papers using the given BibTeX. This ensures the best and least-confusing information enters the literature. You can also conveniently download BibTeX for all my publications.

This is a nearly complete^[2] list, sorted roughly from recent (top) to older (bottom). I have added links to my co-authors' websites , ORCIDs , and ACM IDs , when they have them—although only if I can determine them unambiguously^[3].

Markov-Restricted Analysis of Randomized Trials with Non-Monotone Missing Binary Outcomes

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Jaron J. R. Lee Agatha Mallett Ilya Shpitser Aimee Campbell Edward Nunes Daniel Scharfstein

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Preprint

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1. arXiv.org e-Print Archive 2024 (arXiv '24)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File

Patch Textures: Hardware Support for Mesh Colors

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Agatha Mallett Larry Seiler Cem Yuksel

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Dedicated Homepage

Preprint

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1. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020 (TVCG '20)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File

Constant-Time Energy-Normalization for the Phong Specular BRDFs

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Agatha Mallett Cem Yuksel

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Dedicated Homepage

Preprint

Official Publication Record

Official Publication View

Implementation

Video (Summary)

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1. The Visual Computer Journal, 2020 (TVCJ '20)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File
2. Proceedings of the 37th Computer Graphics International, 2020 (CGI '20)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File
   2. Presentation Video
      

Efficient Adaptive Deferred Shading with Hardware Scatter Tiles

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Agatha Mallett Cem Yuksel Larry Seiler

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Dedicated Homepage

Preprint

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1. Proceedings of High Performance Graphics, 2020 (HPG '20)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File
   2. Wolfgang Straßer Best Paper Award
   3. Presentation Video
      Presentation Video (Low Quality)
      Presentation Video (Conference Recording)
      

Spectral Primary Decomposition for Rendering with sRGB Reflectance

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Agatha Mallett Cem Yuksel

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Dedicated Homepage

Preprint

Supplemental Materials

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1. Proceedings of the 30th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2019 (EGSR '19)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File
   2. Presentation Slides (With Notes)
      

Patch Textures: Hardware Implementation of Mesh Colors

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Agatha Mallett Larry Seiler Cem Yuksel

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Dedicated Homepage

Preprint

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1. Proceedings of High Performance Graphics, 2019 (HPG '19)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File
   2. Presentation Slides (With Notes)
      The original slides had some 3D models embedded; they have been replaced by images for licensing reasons.

Aesthetically-Oriented Atmospheric Scattering

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Yáng Sophie Shen Agatha Mallett Konstantin Shkurko

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Preprint

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1. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/EG Expressive Symposium, 2019 (Expressive '19)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File
   2. Presentation Slides
      

Dual-Split Trees

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Daqi Lin Konstantin Shkurko Agatha Mallett Cem Yuksel

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Dedicated Homepage

Preprint

Supplemental Materials

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1. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2019 (I3D '19)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File
   2. Best Conference Paper Award

Deferred Adaptive Compute Shading

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Agatha Mallett Cem Yuksel

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Dedicated Homepage

Preprint (Corrected 2018-08-09)

Implementation

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1. Proceedings of High Performance Graphics, 2018 (HPG '18)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File
   2. Presentation Video
      Presentation Slides
      Presentation Slides (With Notes)
      

A Detailed Study of Ray Tracing Performance: Render Time and Energy Cost

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Elena Vasiou Konstantin Shkurko Agatha Mallett Erik Brunvand Cem Yuksel

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Preprint

Supplemental Materials

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1. Proceedings of the 35th Computer Graphics International, 2018 (CGI '18)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File

SimTRaX: Simulation Infrastructure for Exploring Thousands of Cores

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Konstantin Shkurko Tim Grant Erik Brunvand Daniel Kopta Josef Spjut Elena Vasiou Agatha Mallett Cem Yuksel

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Dedicated Homepage

Preprint

Technical Report

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1. Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2018 (GLSVLSI '18)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File
2. Technical Report, School of Computing, University of Utah, UUCS-18-001, 2018 (UUCS '18)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File

Time Interval Ray Tracing for Motion Blur

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Konstantin Shkurko Cem Yuksel Daniel Kopta Agatha Mallett Erik Brunvand

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Dedicated Homepage

Preprint

Supplemental Materials

Video

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1. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2017 (TVCG '17)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File

Dual Streaming for Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing

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Konstantin Shkurko Tim Grant Daniel Kopta Agatha Mallett Cem Yuksel Erik Brunvand

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Dedicated Homepage

Preprint

Official Publication Record

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1. Proceedings of High Performance Graphics, 2017 (HPG '17)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File

Parameterization of Tabulated BRDFs

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Agatha Mallett Cem Yuksel

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Official Publication Record

Preprint

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1. Proceedings of the 33rd Computer Graphics International, 2016 (CGI '16)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File
   2. Presentation Slides
      Presentation Slides (With Notes)
      

Adaptive Deferred Shading

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Agatha Mallett Cem Yuksel Amit Prakash

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Poster

ACM Extended Abstract

ACM DOI

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1. Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2016 (I3D '16)
   

   1. BibTeX Bibliography File

Dot-Product Reparameterizations of Tabular Isotropic BSDFs

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Agatha Mallett

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1. 10th Annual UNM CS Student Conference (UNM CSSC 2014)
   

   1. First Place Award

Anisotropic Texture Filtering using Line Integral Textures

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Agatha Mallett Vahid Noormofidi

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Preprint

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1. (Informally Published)
   

Approximate Construction of Regular Polygons

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Agatha Mallett Brenda Mallett Russell Mallett

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Dedicated Homepage

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1. California Mathematics Council ComMuniCator, 2008 (CA CMC '08)
   
2. 2007 Mathematical Association of America Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii Section, Meeting (if you know, contact me)
   

Notes

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