Bill Mark - Publications

Refereed publications

• Low-Shot Validation: Active Importance Sampling for Estimating Classifier Performance on Rare Categories
  Fait Poms, Vishnu Sarukkai, Ravi Mullapudi, Nimit Sohoni, William Mark, Deva Ramanan, Kayvon Fatahalian
  ICCV 2021 (Selected for Oral Presentation)
  
  
• Learning Rare Category Classifiers on a Tight Labeling Budget
  Ravi Mullapudi, Fait Poms, William Mark, Deva Ramanan, Kayvon Fatahalian
  ICCV 2021
  
  
• Background Splitting: Finding Rare Classes in a Sea of Background
  Ravi Mullapudi, Fait Poms, William Mark, Deva Ramanan, Kayvon Fatahalian
  CVPR 2021
  
  
• HydraNets: Specialized dynamic architectures for efficient inference
  Ravi Mullapudi, William Mark, Noam Shazeer, Deva Ramanan, Kayvon Fatahalian
  CVPR 2018
  
  
• ispc: A SPMD Compiler for High-Performance CPU Programming
  Matt Pharr and William R. Mark
  Innovative Parallel Computing Conf. (InPar), May 2012 (Best paper award)
  
  
• Combining Single and Packet Ray Tracing for Arbitrary Ray Distributions on the Intel MIC Architecture (preprint, differently formatted)
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, Sven Woop, Manfred Ernst, William R. Mark
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2012
  
  
• Razor: An architecture for dynamic multiresolution ray tracing

  Peter Djeu, Warren Hunt, Rui Wang, Ikrima Elhassan, Gordon Stoll, William R. Mark
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2011
  
  
• Consistent normal interpolation

  Alexander Reshetov, Alexei Soupikov, William R. Mark
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2010, 2010
  
  
• A Lazy Object-Space Shading Architecture with Decoupled Sampling,
  Christopher A. Burns, Kayvon Fatahalian, William R. Mark
  High Performance Graphics 2010
  
  
• Reducing Shading on GPUs using Quad-Fragment Merging,
  Kayvon Fatahalian, Solomon Boulos, James Hegarty, Kurt Akeley, William R. Mark, Henry Moreton, Pat Hanrahan.
  SIGGRAPH 2010.
  
  
• DiagSplit: Parallel, Crack-Free, Adaptive Tessellation for Micropolygon Rendering,
  Matthew Fisher, Kayvon Fatahalian, Solomon Boulos, Kurt Akeley, William R. Mark, Pat Hanrahan.
  SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009.
  
  
• Data Parallel Rasterization of Micropolygons with Defocus and Motion Blur,
  Kayvon Fatahalian, Edward Luong, Solomon Boulos, Kurt Akeley, William R. Mark, Pat Hanrahan.
  High Performance Graphics 2009, August 2009.
  
  
• Soft Irregular Shadow Mapping: Fast, High-Quality, and Robust Soft Shadows
  Gregory Johnson, Allen Hux, Chris Burns, Warren Hunt, Stephen Junkins, William R. Mark
  2009 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Feb, 2009.
  
  
• Towards a Multi-core Architecture for Real-time Ray-tracing
  Venkatraman Govindaraju, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Mary Vernon, Peter Djeu, William R. Mark
  41st Annual IEEE/ACM Intl. Symp. on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2008), Nov. 2008.
  
  
• Ray-specialized acceleration structures for Ray Tracing
  Warren Hunt and William R. Mark
  2008 IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, August 2008.
  
  
• Adaptive acceleration structures in perspective space
  Warren Hunt and William R. Mark
  2008 IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, August 2008.
  
  
• Large Packets for Real-time Whitted Ray Tracing
  Ryan Overbeck, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and William R. Mark
  2008 IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, August 2008.
  
  
• Future Graphics Architectures
  William R. Mark
  ACM Queue, March/April 2008 (invited publication).
  
  
• Fast and Lazy Build of Acceleration Structures from Scene Hierarchies
  Warren Hunt, William R. Mark, and Donald S. Fussell
  2007 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, Sept 2007.
  
  
• Dynamic Ray Scheduling to Improve Ray Coherence and Bandwidth Utilization
  Paul Arthurl Navratil, Donald S. Fussell, Calvin Lin, and William R. Mark
  2007 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, Sept 2007.
  
  
• A Real-time Beam Tracer with Application to Exact Soft Shadows
  Ryan Overbeck, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and William R. Mark
  2007 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, June 2007.
  
  
• State of the Art in Ray Tracing Animated Scenes
  Ingo Wald, William R. Mark, Johannes Gunther, Solomon Boulos, Thiago Ize, Warren Hunt, Steven G. Parker, and Peter Shirley
  Eurographics 2007 State of the Art Report, Sept. 2007
  
  
• Fast kd-tree Construction with an Adaptive Error-Bounded Heuristic
  Warren Hunt, William R. Mark, Gordon Stoll
  2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, Sept. 2006.
  
  
• The Irregular Z-Buffer: Hardware Acceleration for Irregular Data Structures
  Gregory S. Johnson, Juhyun Lee, Christopher A. Burns and William R. Mark
  ACM Transactions on Graphics, October 2005.
  
  
• Universal Mechanisms for Data-Parallel Architectures
  Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Stephen W. Keckler, William R. Mark and Doug Burger
  Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2003).
  
  
• Cg: A System for Programming Graphics Hardware in a C-like Language
  William R. Mark, R. Steven Glanville, Kurt Akeley, Mark J. Kilgard
  SIGGRAPH 2003
  
  
• Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware
  Timothy J. Purcell, Ian Buck, William R. Mark, and Pat Hanrahan
  SIGGRAPH 2002
  
  
• A Real-Time Procedural Shading System for Programmable Graphics Hardware
  Kekoa Proudfoot, William R. Mark, Svetoslav Tzvetkov and Pat Hanrahan
  SIGGRAPH 2001
  
  
• Compiling to a VLIW Fragment Pipeline
  William R. Mark and Kekoa Proudfoot
  SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2001
  
  
• The F-Buffer: A Rasterization-Order FIFO Buffer for Multi-Pass Rendering
  William R. Mark and Kekoa Proudfoot
  SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2001
  
  
• Post-Rendering 3D Warping
  William R. Mark, Leonard McMillan, and Gary Bishop,
  Proceedings of 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
  
  
• Memory Access Patterns of Occlusion-Compatible 3D Image Warping
  William R. Mark and Gary Bishop,
  SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 1997.
  
  
• Adding Force Feedback to Graphics Systems: Issues and Solutions,
  William R. Mark, Scott C. Randolph, Mark Finch, James M. Van Verth, and Russell M. Taylor II,
  SIGGRAPH 1996.
  

Book Chapter

• Real-Time Programmable Shading,
  William R. Mark,
  in Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, David S. Ebert et al., 3rd edition,
  Morgan-Kaufmann, 2003.

Technical Reports

• Razor: An Architecture for Dynamic Multiresolution Ray Tracing
  Peter Djeu, Warren Hunt, Rui Wang, Ikrima Elhassan, Gordon Stoll, William R. Mark
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences.
  Technical Report TR-07-52, January 24, 2007.
  
  
• Razor: An architecture for dynamic multiresolution ray tracing
  Gordon Stoll, William R. Mark, Peter Djeu, Rui Wang, and Ikrima Elhassan,
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences.
  Technical Report TR-06-21, April 26, 2006.
  
  
• An Analysis of Raytracing Bandwidth Consumption
  Paul A. Navratil and William R. Mark,
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences. Technical Report TR-06-40, 2006.
  
  
• Real-Time Rendering Systems in 2010
  William R. Mark and Donald Fussell,
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences.
  Technical Report TR-05-18, May 2, 2005.
  
  
• The Irregular Z-Buffer and its Application to Shadow Mapping
  Gregory S. Johnson, William R. Mark, and Christopher A. Burns,
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences.
  Technical Report TR-04-09, April 15, 2004.
  
  
• Post-Rendering 3D Image Warping: Visibility, Reconstruction, and Performance for Depth-Image Warping
  William R. Mark,
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 1999.
  (UNC Computer Science Technical Report TR99-022)
  
  
• Multiple Image Warping for Remote Display of Rendered Images
  Thomas C. Hudson, William R. Mark,
  UNC Computer Science Technical Report TR99-024
  
  
• Efficient Reconstruction Techniques for Post-Rendering 3D Image Warping,
  William R. Mark and Gary Bishop,
  UNC Computer Science Technical Report TR98-011, University of North Carolina, March 21, 1998.
  
  
• UNC-CH Force Feedback Library, Revision C,
  William R. Mark, Scott C. Randolph, Mark Finch, and James M. Van Verth,
  UNC-CH Computer Science Technical Report TR96-012, January 30, 1996.