Title
Acquiring reflectance and shape from continuous spherical harmonic illumination
Abstract
We present a novel technique for acquiring the geometry and spatially-varying reflectance properties of 3D objects by observing them under continuous spherical harmonic illumination conditions. The technique is general enough to characterize either entirely specular or entirely diffuse materials, or any varying combination across the surface of the object. We employ a novel computational illumination setup consisting of a rotating arc of controllable LEDs which sweep out programmable spheres of incident illumination during 1-second exposures. We illuminate the object with a succession of spherical harmonic illumination conditions, as well as photographed environmental lighting for validation. From the response of the object to the harmonics, we can separate diffuse and specular reflections, estimate world-space diffuse and specular normals, and compute anisotropic roughness parameters for each view of the object. We then use the maps of both diffuse and specular reflectance to form correspondences in a multiview stereo algorithm, which allows even highly specular surfaces to be corresponded across views. The algorithm yields a complete 3D model and a set of merged reflectance maps. We use this technique to digitize the shape and reflectance of a variety of objects difficult to acquire with other techniques and present validation renderings which match well to photographs in similar lighting.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2461912.2461944
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
specular surface,specular reflection,merged reflectance map,Acquiring reflectance,continuous spherical harmonic illumination,specular normal,estimate world-space diffuse,novel computational illumination setup,incident illumination,diffuse material,specular reflectance
Computer vision,Optics,Spherical harmonics,Artificial intelligence,Reflectance properties,Reflectivity,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
4
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
35
1.10
31
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Borom Tunwattanapong11138.54
Graham Fyffe235622.50
Paul Graham3474.55
Jay Busch428323.06
Xueming Yu523918.65
Abhijeet Ghosh677258.87
Paul Debevec74955449.10