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