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2025 - Lausanne, Switzerland

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The 23nd International Radiance Workshop
Lausanne, Switzerland
August 27-29, 2025

Organizer: EPFL

Workshop Schedule

Wednesday, 27 August 2025
8:45 Arrival and Coffee
9:00 Welcome
9:10 Greg Ward, Anyhere Software
Taoning Wang, LBNL
What's new with Radiance
Slides | Recording
09:55 Rafael Bartsch
Modeling and simulation of radiation in modern urban spaces Slides | Recording
10:25 Stephan Moser
Optimizing PV Cell Layouts on Sunshading lamellas under Realistic Shadow Scenarios Using Radiance-Based Simulation Workflows
Slides | Recording
10:55 Coffee-Break
11:15 Mojdeh Sabeti
Comparing the performance of electrochromic glazing and fabric roller blinds under automated and manual control schemes in office buildings Slides | Recording
11:45 Xuran Guo
Window view clarity and glare in perforated shading systems: a user assessment Slides | Recording
12:15 Eleni Mousteri
The Effect of Biophilic Glare Control on Occupant Perception Slides | Recording
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Lars Grobe
The Zero Carbon Building Systems lab in daylight research at ETH Zurich Slides | Recording
14:30 David Geisler-Moroder,
Greg Ward and Taoning Wang
Reference models for spectral simulations and annual simulation of circadian light exposure Slides | Recording
15:15 Coffee-Break
15:35 Simon Weber
The incidence operator method, its parametric design integration and application to predict daylight quantities Recording
16:05 Wenzel Jakob, Mattéo Santini
Differentiable daylight simulations using Mitsuba Slides | Recording
16:35 Lab visits (RGL- goniophotometer, LIPID-mystery of daylight, LIPID-glare simulator)
17:45 End of workshop day 1
19:30 Dinner
Thursday, 28 August 2024
08:45 Arrival and Coffee
09:00 Rob Shakespeare
Applying DeVAS tools: Low Vision Facial Recognition, EVA new research initiative Slides | Recording
09:45 Peter Apian-Bennewitz
Processing Geodetic Geometry with RADIANCE Slides | Recording
10:05 Francesco Anselmo
Updates from the full moon theater Slides | Recording
10:35 David Geisler-Moroder
On the way to an ISO/CIE standard for BSDF data generation for complex fenestration systems Slides | Recording
11:05 Beatrice Yuen
Dealing with Lens Flare in Captured HDR Images with Electric Light Sources for Glare Metric Calculations Using Evalglare Slides | Recording
11:30 Coffee-break
12:00 Eleonora Brembilla
The Devil is in the Details: Challenges and Solutions for Monitoring Daylight in Existing Buildings Slides | Recording
12:30 Jan Wienold
Simulations for the EN17037: Differences between climate-based and DF method Slides | Recording
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Roland Schregle
Photon Flow with Direction and Colour – Supporting Lighting Design of Exhibition Spaces Enveloped in Diffuse Light – Slides | Recording
14:35 Peter Apian-Bennewitz
Material-Session I: Materials in RADIANCE Slides | Recording
15:35 Coffee-Break
16:00 Greg Ward
Material-Session 2: WGMDfunc Material Primitive Slides | Recording
16:30 Lab Visit LIPID
17:30 RADIANCE workshop end
Friday, 29 August 2025
08:45 Arrival and Coffee
09:00 Welcome
Jan Wienold
09:05 Greg Ward
A Brief History of High Dynamic Range Imaging Slides | Recording
09:50 Johannes Ledig
Overview of the Joint Research Project HiDyn Slides | Recording
10:05 Lou Gevaux
Overview of LDR image merging algorithms Slides | Recording
10:25 Johannes Ledig/Constantinos Bouroussis
Design of a high-contrast reference light source Recording
10:35 Johannes Ledig/Constantinos Bouroussis
Characterization of imaging devices using reference light sources Recording
10:55 Johannes Ledig/Constantinos Bouroussis
Example results from HDR-characterization using a reference light source Recording
11:10 Coffee-break
11:30 Constantinos Bouroussis
Current challenges for reliable HDR imaging for glare assessment
12:00 Dong Kim
Commonly used software to generate HDRs and pitfalls Slides |
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Dong Kim
Hands-on/ introduction/ live-demo of  self-calibrating a HDR camera
Example characterization using a high-contrast reference light source
15:00 Coffee-break
15:20 Dong Kim
Hands-on/ introduction/ live-demo of  self-calibrating a HDR camera
Example characterization using a high-contrast reference light source Recording
17:00 End of Workshop
by Taoning Wang last modified Nov 15, 2025 09:33 AM