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[Max] General Discussion / Corona Denoiser Run Time

« on: 2017-01-27, 20:27:42 »

Hello,
     I am curious if anyone has some benchmarks for Corona denoiser's render time for a given size or frame resolution.   Like how long did the render take with denoiser turned off (higher quality settings) and how long did the same scene take with denoiser turned on (lower quality settings)? 

Please help.

Thank you.

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General CG Discussion / Re: Innobright Altus Denoiser Plugin available for download

« on: 2016-06-28, 23:23:59 »

Everyone,

If you were interested in Altus, we just pushed out a beta release of 1.5.

Altus 1.5 has a huge number of changes, so much so that we’re calling 1.5.0 a “beta”. If you’re doing production work we encourage you to stay with 1.4.3. We’ve done a fair amount of internal testing but rather than have you wait for us to finish, we want you to enjoy all the improvements as soon as possible. A later 1.5 point release (e.g. 1.5.x) will be considered “release” and will be available for in August. 1.5.2 is still considered a beta.

Altus finally has both multilayer EXR support as well as stereo (i.e. side-by-side) render support! Using multilayer support is a bit tricky, but with stereo you'll reduce the number of files per frame from as much as 12 or more down to 1.

We now support filtering of any number of AOVs—you are no longer limited to normals, caustics, etc. You are now required to specify both the beauty and position AOVs, otherwise Altus will not run. The command line for using Altus has completely changed to accommodate this, and now makes much more sense and is easier to use. These changes will break existing configurations, scripts, and workflows, so please make these changes before upgrading to the 1.5 release.

Our debuted a new GUI back in an Altus 1.4 point release. The new GUI is easier to use and now also supports stereo and multilayer EXRs as well as arbitrary AOVs.

With the release version of 1.5, we’ll be moving CUDA out of beta. As such it is now bundled with our OpenCL binary in the same download on Windows. If you’re using the GUI, it will select the best binary (CUDA or OpenCL) for you.

On Linux, we’ve a universal binary that should run on any CentOS 6.x+/Ubuntu 12.x system.

If you've any feedback, please reply to this thread or e-mail us at support@innobright.com.

Thanks!

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General CG Discussion / Altus Denoiser 1.4 available for download

« on: 2016-04-22, 04:45:45 »

Dear Altus denoiser users,
    Release 1.4 went out yesterday with the following improvements:
We've improved detail preservation, getting rid of the "oversmoothing" effect many of our customers have complained about. The quality improvement is significant. We're very proud about the quality improvements in this release and you'll be hearing more about it soon.

We've made memory management improvements while handling animations. If you ran out of memory or encountered crashes while filtering animations, we’ve fixed those problems.

Interaction on the command-line is much more user-friendly with improved error reporting. For example, if forgot to specify an AOV or the path to one is wrong, we’ll let you know. We’ll be continuing to improve the UX of our product over the next few releases.

Happy Denoising!  Download Altus 1.4 at www.innobright.com

Team Innobright

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General CG Discussion / Re: Innobright Altus Denoiser Plugin available for download

« on: 2016-03-03, 21:31:52 »

Altus 1.3 is now available!

Setting up Altus on Linux is now significantly easier. Before, you had to hunt down dependencies like Boost and OpenEXR; Altus now compiles the libraries it needs statically so you can just download and run.

For those of you with custom rendering pipelines, we now preserve both data and display window parameters from input files’ original headers.

We are working diligently to integrate stereo multilayer EXR support and are excited to announce that while this functionality did not make it into 1.3, it will be ready for release in 1.4 or possibly sooner in a 1.3.x release.

Innobright now has a formal customer-facing ticket system and support portal at http://support.innobright.com/. Whether you e-mail us or contact us via the Web, we’ll be able to better (and more quickly) help you.

We hope you enjoy this release.  We look forward to hearing your feedback over e-mail and/or our forums.  Attached are noisy inputs and filtered outputs from Altus denoiser.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Innobright Altus Denoiser Comparison shots

« on: 2016-01-28, 06:45:01 »

Dear SairesArt,
    Thanks for your thoughts on Altus denoiser and the comparison shots.  We fixed a lot of critical bugs with Altus 1.2 release (Jan 8 2016) and we have quite good results with the filter improvements.  Re: comparison with the magic RPF (random parameter filtering) algorithm, we had this algorithm implemented originally since we have exclusive rights to productize this algorithm (reference to paper  http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~psen/Papers/Sen11_RandomParameterFiltering_LoRes.pdf).  However, Altus currently deploys RDFC (robust denoising using feature and color information), which performs much better than RPF.  We're fairly confident this would be the best denoising quality you will get, so please try Altus 1.2 and let us know how it works out. 

Regards,
innobright team

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General CG Discussion / Re: Innobright Altus Denoiser Plugin available for download

« on: 2016-01-27, 21:08:19 »

Hello all,
     Starting Altus 1.2 (January 8 2016), we moved away from developing Maya or 3DS Max specific plugins and we are focusing only on the denoiser performance.  The Maya/Max scripts and corona documentation are only meant as examples on how to use Altus executable.  We will also post deadline scripts soon under documentation as well.  Please ensure openCL is installed on your system (refer to innobright FAQ page under documentation).

Regards,
innobright support

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General CG Discussion / Innobright Altus Denoiser Plugin available for download

« on: 2015-12-15, 22:29:29 »

Dear Corona users,
     We are excited to announce the availability of Altus 1.1 release for download at innobright.com. Altus is the world's first multi-platform (CPU/GPU) Monte Carlo rendering denoiser plugin.  From our home page, click on the Downloads link to access the free, watermarked version of our 1.1 release. 

The main caveat to using the Altus plugin is being able to generate the necessary AOVs from the rendering system for random-seed based back-back renders of the same scene.  The back-back renders need to be random sample-based renders in order to ensure there is a variance between the two sets of AOVs.  The readme files (release notes) downloadable from our Support -> Documentation page explain how the windows or linux versions can be used to integrate into your workflow.  We also have a Corona user guide posted there, thanks to Corona group.  We are constantly improving our FAQ page, based on user feedback.

We look forward to hearing your feedback over email and/or our forums.

innobright support
(Further queries, please contact support@innobright.com)