Paper Info
Title
OpenSurfaces: a richly annotated catalog of surface appearance
Abstract
The appearance of surfaces in real-world scenes is determined by the materials, textures, and context in which the surfaces appear. However, the datasets we have for visualizing and modeling rich surface appearance in context, in applications such as home remodeling, are quite limited. To help address this need, we present OpenSurfaces, a rich, labeled database consisting of thousands of examples of surfaces segmented from consumer photographs of interiors, and annotated with material parameters (reflectance, material names), texture information (surface normals, rectified textures), and contextual information (scene category, and object names). Retrieving usable surface information from uncalibrated Internet photo collections is challenging. We use human annotations and present a new methodology for segmenting and annotating materials in Internet photo collections suitable for crowdsourcing (e.g., through Amazon's Mechanical Turk). Because of the noise and variability inherent in Internet photos and novice annotators, designing this annotation engine was a key challenge; we present a multi-stage set of annotation tasks with quality checks and validation. We demonstrate the use of this database in proof-of-concept applications including surface retexturing and material and image browsing, and discuss future uses. OpenSurfaces is a public resource available at http://opensurfaces.cs.cornell.edu/.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2461912.2462002
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
material name,rich surface appearance,material parameter,internet photo,usable surface information,contextual information,surface retexturing,internet photo collection,surface normal,annotated catalog,annotating material
Conference
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0730-0301
60
PageRank 
References 
Authors
6.31
33
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sean Bell144819.59
Paul Upchurch2606.99
Noah Snavely34262197.04
Kavita Bala42046138.75