Title
Manifold bootstrapping for SVBRDF capture
Abstract
Manifold bootstrapping is a new method for data-driven modeling of real-world, spatially-varying reflectance, based on the idea that reflectance over a given material sample forms a low-dimensional manifold. It provides a high-resolution result in both the spatial and angular domains by decomposing reflectance measurement into two lower-dimensional phases. The first acquires representatives of high angular dimension but sampled sparsely over the surface, while the second acquires keys of low angular dimension but sampled densely over the surface. We develop a hand-held, high-speed BRDF capturing device for phase one measurements. A condenser-based optical setup collects a dense hemisphere of rays emanating from a single point on the target sample as it is manually scanned over it, yielding 10 BRDF point measurements per second. Lighting directions from 6 LEDs are applied at each measurement; these are amplified to a full 4D BRDF using the general (NDF-tabulated) microfacet model. The second phase captures N=20-200 images of the entire sample from a fixed view and lit by a varying area source. We show that the resulting N-dimensional keys capture much of the distance information in the original BRDF space, so that they effectively discriminate among representatives, though they lack sufficient angular detail to reconstruct the SVBRDF by themselves. At each surface position, a local linear combination of a small number of neighboring representatives is computed to match each key, yielding a high-resolution SVBRDF. A quick capture session (10-20 minutes) on simple devices yields results showing sharp and anisotropic specularity and rich spatial detail.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1833349.1778835
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
fluorescence,high resolution
Bidirectional reflectance distribution function,Small number,Linear combination,Computer vision,Anisotropy,Specularity,Computer graphics (images),Bootstrapping,Computer science,Area source,Artificial intelligence,Manifold
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
4
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
43
1.30
29
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yue Dong142825.42
Jiaping Wang254927.25
Xin Tong32119127.72
John Snyder42579172.17
Yanxiang Lan5602.70
Moshe Ben-ezra663146.56
Baining Guo73970194.91