Two-shot SVBRDF capture for stationary materials

Aittala M, Weyrich T, Lehtinen J (2015)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2015

Journal

Acm Transactions on Graphics Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Book Volume: 34

Article Number: 110

Journal Issue: 4

DOI: 10.1145/2766967

Abstract

Material appearance acquisition usually makes a trade-off between acquisition effort and richness of reflectance representation. In this paper, we instead aim for both a light-weight acquisition procedure and a rich reflectance representation simultaneously, by restricting ourselves to one, but very important, class of appearance phenomena: texture-like materials. While such materials' reflectance is generally spatially varying, they exhibit self-similarity in the sense that for any point on the texture there exist many others with similar reflectance properties. We show that the texturedness assumption allows reflectance capture using only two images of a planar sample, taken with and without a headlight flash. Our reconstruction pipeline starts with redistributing reflectance observations across the image, followed by a regularized texture statistics transfer and a nonlinear optimization to fit a spatially-varying BRDF (SVBRDF) to the resulting data. The final result describes the material as spatiallyvarying, diffuse and specular, anisotropic reflectance over a detailed normal map. We validate the method by side-by-side and novel-view comparisons to photographs, comparing normal map resolution to sub-micron ground truth scans, as well as simulated results. Our method is robust enough to use handheld, JPEG-compressed photographs taken with a mobile phone camera and built-in flash.

Authors with CRIS profile

Tim Weyrich

Involved external institutions

Aalto University Espoo FI Finland (FI) University College London (UCL) GB United Kingdom (GB)

How to cite

APA:

Aittala, M., Weyrich, T., & Lehtinen, J. (2015). Two-shot SVBRDF capture for stationary materials. Acm Transactions on Graphics, 34(4). https://doi.org/10.1145/2766967

MLA:

Aittala, Miika, Tim Weyrich, and Jaakko Lehtinen. "Two-shot SVBRDF capture for stationary materials." Acm Transactions on Graphics 34.4 (2015).

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