Taiki Yoshino
I’m third-year CSE major student at UC San Diego.
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Course Projects

- Used Tools: C++, OpenGL
- Ray tracing from scratch
- Transformation of spheres and triangles
- A single point light source.
- Bounding Volume Hierarchy

- Used Tools: C++, CUDA, OptiX 6.5,
- Simple Path Tracing with GPU
- Area light sources
- Analitic & Monte Carlo solution
- Global Illumination
- Next Event Estimation
- Russian Roulette
- Importance Sampling

- Used Tools: C++, OpenGL, ImGUI
- Skeleton and froward kinematics
- Character Skin
- Keyframe Animation
- Tangent Interpolation,
- Extrapolation

- Used Tools: C++, OpenGL
- Cloth made from Particles
- Uniform Gravity
- Spring Elasticity
- Damping
- Aerodynamic Drag
- Simple Ground Plane Collisions

- Used Tools: C++, OpenGL
- Particle Based Fluid
- Navier-Stokes Equation
- Pressure, Viscosity, Gravity
- Neighbor Search with Uniform Grids
- Wall Plane Repulsion Collision

- Used Tools: C++, lajolla renderer
- Multiple Scattering
- Homogeneous & Heterogeneous Media
- Next Event Estimation
- Multiple Importance Sampling
- Chromatic Media

- Used Tools: C++, lajolla renderer
- Diffuse
- Metal
- Clearcoat
- Glass
- Sheen
Research Project

- Physics Research on Hot Road Mirage
- Taiki Yoshino
- Advisors: Kajio Takihiro
- Super Science High School Program @ Uto High School
- Reproduced a parabola-like light path on a small scale.

- Physics Research on Refractive Index of Aqueous Solution
- Eito Kubota, Taiki Yoshino, Nanami Shikai
- Advisors: Kajio Takihiro
- Physics Club @ Uto High School
- Discovered a simple method for measuring
the refractive index & concentration of an aqueous solution.

- Evaluating Slang for View Synthesis
- David Choi, Taiki Yoshino, Rick Rodness, Hayden Kwok
- Advisors: Ravi Ramamoorthi, Tzu Mao Li
- Early Research Scholars Program @ UCSD
- Reimplementation of NeRF & 3DGS in a new shading language Slang.

- HotSpot: Signed Distance Function Optimization
with an Asymptotically Sufficient Condition
- Zimo Wang, Cheng Wang, Taiki Yoshino, Sirui Tao, Ziyang Fu, Tzu-Mao Li
- CVPR 2025
- Neural SDF optimization with heat method.
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