Rex West

Project Assistant Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
Ph.D. (博士)

Rex West is a Project Assistant Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University under the supervision of Prof. Yonghao Yue.
He graduated from the Ph.D. program of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo, and was supervised by Prof. Nobuyuki Umetani (and formerly by Prof. Toshiya Hachisuka).

His research interests include light transport simulation, non-photorealistic rendering, and numerical integration methods.

News

2023/06/01: I have taken a Project Assistant Professor position at Aoyama Gakuin University under the supervision of Prof. Yonghao Yue.
2022/09/22: Graduated from the PhD Program at UTokyo.
2022/08/04: We have a paper on (unbiased) approximation of MIS when one or more of the sampling techniques has an intractable marginal PDF accepted to Siggraph Asia 2022.
2022/06/30: I have succssfully defended my PhD thesis with a planned graduation date of mid September.
2021/08/31: I have a paper on feature line rendering accepted to Siggraph Asia 2021.
2021/04/01: Moved to the Interactive Graphics and Engineering Lab and am now under the supervision of Prof. Umetani.
2020/05/02: We have a paper on a continuous generalization of MIS accepted to Siggraph 2020.
2020/02/17: We have a paper on stratified MCMC rendering accepted to Eurographics 2020.
2019/09/13: Graduated from the Master's Program at UTokyo.
2019/09/03: Admitted into the PhD program at UTokyo.

Publications

Marginal Multiple Importance Sampling

Unbiased approximation of MIS when one or more of the sampling techniques has an intractable marginal PDF
R. West, I. Georgiev, and T. Hachisuka
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 (Conference Track)
[paper] [supplemental] [project page]

Physically-based Feature Line Rendering

Integrating feature lines into PBR by modeling them as light sources.
R. West
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2021)
[paper] [project page]

Continuous Multiple Importance Sampling

A continuous generalization of multiple importance sampling.
R. West, I. Georgiev, A. Gruson, and T. Hachisuka
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020)
[paper] [project page] [video]

Stratified Markov Chain Monte Carlo Rendering

Exact and controllable image-space stratification for MCMC rendering.
A. Gruson, R. West, and T. Hachisuka
Eurographics 2020
[paper] [supplementary material]

Education

University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - 2019-2022

Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science and Technology

University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - 2017-2019

Master's Degree from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California - 2012-2015

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Awards and Honors
  • Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship Recipient 2019 - 2022
  • Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship Recipient 2017 - 2019
  • Graduate Student Representative for the incoming class of Fall 2017
Hobbies
  • Cycling
  • Digital Painting
  • Music Production