Work — Suriya Dakshina Murthy

Real-time & Offline Rendering

Renderers, ray tracers, path tracers, and rasterizers

PBRT Implementation

Working implementation of Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation — spectral rendering, microfacet materials, and acceleration structures.

C++PBRTSpectral RenderingBVH

3D Avatars & Reconstruction

Neural implicit, avatar pipelines, CVPR research

3D Avatar Pipeline

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Neural avatar pipeline: PIFuHD implicit mesh → RigNet automatic rigging → lightweight pose estimation → Mixamo animation. 16 GitHub stars.

PythonPIFuHDRigNetPyTorchOpen3D

Implicit Web Renderer

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Realistic web-based renderer for virtual avatars reconstructed from images using implicit neural representations.

C++WebGLNeural ImplicitPIFu

Generative AI + Graphics

Diffusion models applied to 3D geometry and texturing

Differentiable Diffusion Renderer

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Differentiable renderer that textures 3D models using Stable Diffusion — gradient flows from image space back into UV texture space via differentiable rasterization.

PythonPyTorchStable DiffusionDifferentiable Rendering

Stable Diffusion on Nvidia Omniverse

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Stable Diffusion plugin for Omniverse using Hugging Face Diffusers. Generates and applies AI textures directly in USD scenes with model offloading for VRAM efficiency.

PythonDiffusersOpenUSDNvidia Omniverse