Heightfield and spatially varying BRDF Reconstruction for Materials with Interreflections

dc.contributor.authorRuiters, Rolanden_US
dc.contributor.authorKlein, Reinharden_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-23T10:16:47Z
dc.date.available2015-02-23T10:16:47Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractPhoto-realistic reproduction of material appearance from images has widespread use in applications ranging from movies over advertising to virtual prototyping. A common approach to this task is to reconstruct the small scale geometry of the sample and to capture the reflectance properties using spatially varying BRDFs. For this, multi-view and photometric stereo reconstruction can be used, both of which are limited regarding the amount of either view or light directions and suffer from either low- or high-frequency artifacts, respectively. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm combining both techniques to recover heightfields and spatially varying BRDFs while at the same time overcoming the above mentioned drawbacks. Our main contribution is a novel objective function which allows for the reconstruction of a heightfield and high quality SVBRDF including view dependent effects. Thereby, our method also avoids both low and high frequency artifacts. Additionally, our algorithm takes inter-reflections into account allowing for the reconstruction of undisturbed representations of the underlying material. In our experiments, including synthetic and real-world data, we show that our approach is superior to state-of-the-art methods regarding reconstruction error as well as visual impression. Both the reconstructed geometry and the recovered SVBRDF are highly accurate, resulting in a faithful reproduction of the materials characteristic appearance, which is of paramount importance in the context of material rendering.en_US
dc.description.number2en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume28en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01390.xen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.pages513-522en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01390.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.titleHeightfield and spatially varying BRDF Reconstruction for Materials with Interreflectionsen_US
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