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Sascha Holl
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Department 4: Computer Graphics
Sampling and Rendering Group
Diffusion-Based Markov Chain Monte Carlo for
Generative Modeling and Physically Based Rendering
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, Room 209
Saarland Informatics Campus
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Research Interests
Markov chain Monte Carlo and stochastic processes
Diffusion models and score-based generative modeling
Physically based rendering, global illumination, and light transport simulation
Real-time rendering for interactive graphics and games
Stochastic differential equations and stochastic partial differential equations, including stochastic fluid dynamics
GPU programming and high-performance graphics systems
Publications
Rao-Blackwellized Markov Chain Monte Carlo Light Transport
Sascha Holl
, Gurprit Singh, Hans-Peter Seidel
SIGGRAPH 2026,
SIGGRAPH Conference Papers '26
[
Paper
]
Edge-Preserving Noise for Diffusion Models
Jente Vandersanden,
Sascha Holl
, Xingchang Huang, Gurprit Singh
EUROGRAPHICS 2026,
Computer Graphics Forum
[
Paper
] [
Project Page
] [
Code
]
Jump Restore Light Transport
Sascha Holl
, Gurprit Singh, Hans-Peter Seidel
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025,
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 44, Issue 6
[
Paper
] [
Project Page
] [
Code
]
Concatenation of Markov processes
Sascha Holl
arXiv preprint 2024
[
Paper
]