Wenzel Jakob
Associate Professor
Leads the Realistic Graphics Lab, working on inverse graphics, appearance modelling and physically based differentiable rendering (Mitsuba).
Wenzel Jakob's lab at EPFL works on rendering & appearance and signal processing & information theory. 10 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly SIGGRAPH. 2 PhD students. 6 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 10%
- PhD students
- 2
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 6
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 1
- 3 papers2024 · T1 0
- 2 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: SIGGRAPH
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Rendering & appearance6 papers
- differentiable rendering2 papers
- Signal processing & information theory0 papers
- graphics0 papers
- realistic0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPHInverse Rendering for Discrete X-Ray Computed Tomography (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPHRadiance Caching for Differentiable Path Tracing (opens in a new tab)
20253 papers
- Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH AsiaMany-Worlds Inverse Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Radiance Surfaces: Optimizing Surface Representations with a 5D Radiance Field Loss (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPHThe Mokume Dataset and Inverse Modeling of Solid Wood Textures (opens in a new tab)
20243 papers
- Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH AsiaA Simple Approach to Differentiable Rendering of SDFs (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH AsiaInverse Rendering for Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH AsiaSolving Inverse PDE Problems using Grid-Free Monte Carlo Estimators (opens in a new tab)
20232 papers
- Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH AsiaProjective Sampling for Differentiable Rendering of Geometry (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPHRecursive Control Variates for Inverse Rendering (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went6 listed
Apply to EPFLFall 2027
EDIC Computer and Communication Sciences PhD
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- Round 1
- Opens
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- GRE
- optional
- English
- TOEFL 100 / IELTS 7.0
- Fee
- none
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