Table 2: Comparison of the gradients, i.e., I ^ i / α i in four scenes (BOX, C-BOX, TORUS, and WATER) calculated using the finite difference method (FD) and analytic gradient (ours) to verify the correctness of our analytic gradient computation.

FD Ours Absolute error
BOX −1.9237 × 10−4 −1.9248 × 10−4 3.1773 × 10−5
C-BOX −3.6945 × 10−5 −3.6950 × 10−5 1.2040 × 10−7
TORUS −3.5058 × 10−6 3.5050 × 10−6 1.9545 × 10−5
WATER −9.7976 × 10−5 −9.7084 × 10−5 1.6310 × 10−3