On-site Surface Reflectometry

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dc.contributor.authorRiviere, Jérémy
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-18T12:58:47Z
dc.date.available2018-12-18T12:58:47Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-26
dc.description.abstractThe rapid development of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications over the past years has created the need to quickly and accurately scan the real world to populate immersive, realistic virtual environments for the end user to enjoy. While geometry processing has already gone a long way towards that goal, with self-contained solutions commercially available for on-site acquisition of large scale 3D models, capturing the appearance of the materials that compose those models remains an open problem in general uncontrolled environments. The appearance of a material is indeed a complex function of its geometry, intrinsic physical properties and furthermore depends on the illumination conditions in which it is observed, thus traditionally limiting the scope of reflectometry to highly controlled lighting conditions in a laboratory setup. With the rapid development of digital photography, especially on mobile devices, a new trend in the appearance modelling community has emerged, that investigates novel acquisition methods and algorithms to relax the hard constraints imposed by laboratory-like setups, for easy use by digital artists. While arguably not as accurate, we demonstrate the ability of such self-contained methods to enable quick and easy solutions for on-site reflectometry, able to produce compelling, photo-realistic imagery. In particular, this dissertation investigates novel methods for on-site acquisition of surface reflectance based on off-the-shelf, commodity hardware. We successfully demonstrate how a mobile device can be utilised to capture high quality reflectance maps of spatially-varying planar surfaces in general indoor lighting conditions. We further present a novel methodology for the acquisition of highly detailed reflectance maps of permanent on-site, outdoor surfaces by exploiting polarisation from reflection under natural illumination. We demonstrate the versatility of the presented approaches by scanning various surfaces from the real world and show good qualitative and quantitative agreement with existing methods for appearance acquisition employing controlled or semi-controlled illumination setups.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Councilen_US
dc.identifier.citationhttps://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.733220en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/2632717
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEThOSen_US
dc.subjectSVBRDFen_US
dc.subjectmobile deviceen_US
dc.subjectreflectometryen_US
dc.subject2D/3D trackingen_US
dc.subjectregistrationen_US
dc.subjectSurface reflectometryen_US
dc.subjectlinear polarizationen_US
dc.subjectStokes parametersen_US
dc.subjectindex of refractionen_US
dc.titleOn-site Surface Reflectometryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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