Publication details

Journal Article

Adaptive slices for acquisition of anisotropic BRDF

Vávra Radomír, Filip Jiří

: Computational Visual Media vol.4, 1 (2018), p. 55-69

: GA17-18407S, GA ČR

: anisotropic BRDF, slice, sampling

: 10.1007/s41095-017-0099-z

: http://library.utia.cas.cz/separaty/2018/RO/vavra-0486116.pdf

(eng): BRDF continues to be used as a fundamental tool for representing material appearance in computer graphics. In this paper we present a practical adaptive method for acquisition of the anisotropic BRDF. It is based on a sparse adaptive measurement of the complete four-dimensional BRDF space by means of one-dimensional slices which form a sparse four-dimensional structure in the BRDF space and which can be measured by continuous movements of a light source and a sensor. Such a sampling approach is advantageous especially for gonioreflectometer-based measurement devices where the mechanical travel of a light source and a sensor creates a significant time constraint. In order to evaluate our method, we perform adaptive measurements of three materials and we simulate adaptive measurements of thirteen others. We achieve a four-times lower reconstruction error in comparison with the regular non-adaptive BRDF measurements given the same count of measured samples. Our method is almost twice better than a previous adaptive method, and it requires from two- to five-times less samples to achieve the same results as alternative approaches.\n

: BD

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