TY - GEN U1 - Sonstiges A1 - Roth, Thorsten A1 - Weier, Martin A1 - Bauszat, Pablo A1 - Hinkenjann, André A1 - Li, Yongmin T1 - Hash-based Hierarchical Caching and Layered Filtering for Interactive Previews in Global Illumination N2 - Modern Monte-Carlo-based rendering systems still suffer from the computational complexity involved in the generation of noise-free images, making it challenging to synthesize interactive previews. We present a framework suited for rendering such previews of static scenes using a caching technique that builds upon a linkless octree. Our approach allows for memory-efficient storage and constant-time lookup to cache diffuse illumination at multiple hitpoints along the traced paths. Non-diffuse surfaces are dealt with in a hybrid way in order to reconstruct view-dependent illumination while maintaining interactive frame rates. By evaluating the visual fidelity against ground truth sequences and by benchmarking, we show that our approach compares well to low-noise path traced results, but with a greatly reduced computational complexity allowing for interactive frame rates. This way, our caching technique provides a useful tool for global illumination previews and multi-view rendering. U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3613654 DO - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3613654 PB - Zenodo ER -