Biography

Since September 2005, I am a Ph.D. Student in the Graphics Group at Lund University, Sweden, working with Tomas Akenine-Möller. My main research interests are mobile graphics, texture compression, real-time ray tracing and HDR images.


2003-2005 I worked as a developer at Illuminate Labs on the commercial photo-realistic renderer Turtle™.

My Master Thesis is entitled Variational Shape Design and was part of an internship at Dassault System, Paris, 2002.


Publications

Jon Hasselgren, Jacob Munkberg and Tomas Akenine-Möller,
"Automatic Pre-Tessellation Culling",
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 28(2):19, 2009.

Jacob Munkberg, Jon Hasselgren and Tomas Akenine-Möller,
"Non-Uniform Fractional Tessellation",
Accepted to Graphics Hardware, 2008.

Jacob Ström, Per Wennersten, Jim Rasmusson, Jon Hasselgren, Jacob Munkberg, Petrik Clarberg and Tomas Akenine-Möller
"Floating-Point Buffer Compression in a Unified Codec Architecture",
Accepted to Graphics Hardware, 2008.

Jacob Munkberg, Petrik Clarberg, Jon Hasselgren and Tomas Akenine-Möller
"Practical HDR Texture Compression"
Accepted to Computer Graphics Forum, 2008.

Erik Månsson, Jacob Munkberg and Tomas Akenine-Möller
"Deep Coherent Ray Tracing"
RT 07 - Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2007

Jacob Munkberg, Ola Olsson, Jacob Ström and Tomas Akenine-Möller
"Tight Frame Normal Map Compression"
Graphics Hardware, 2007

Tomas Akenine-Möller, Jacob Munkberg, and Jon Hasselgren
"Stochastic Rasterization using Time-Continuous Triangles"
Graphics Hardware, 2007.

Jacob Munkberg, Tomas Akenine-Möller and Jacob Ström,
"High-Quality Normal Map Compression",
Graphics Hardware, September 2006.

Jacob Munkberg, Petrik Clarberg, Jon Hasselgren and Tomas Akenine-Möller,
"High Dynamic Range Texure Compression For Graphics Hardware",
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006), vol. 25, no. 3, 2006.

Awards

Co-creator of live cinema show Grains and Pixels, awarded with Special Recognition Prize, CynetArt Festival 2006, Dresden and Prix Möbius Nordica Experimental, Pixelache Highlights 2007, Helsinki.