Title
Perceptually Validated Cross-Renderer Analytical BRDF Parameter Remapping.
Abstract
Material appearance of rendered objects depends on the underlying BRDF implementation used by rendering software packages. A lack of standards to exchange material parameters and data (between tools) means that artists in digital 3D prototyping and design, manually match the appearance of materials to a reference image. Since their effect on rendered output is often non-uniform and counter intuitive, selecting appropriate parameterisations for BRDF models is far from straightforward. We present a novel BRDF remapping technique, that automatically computes a mapping (BRDF Difference Probe) to match the appearance of a source material model to a target one. Through quantitative analysis, four user studies and psychometric scaling experiments, we validate our remapping framework and demonstrate that it yields a visually faithful remapping among analytical BRDFs. Most notably, our results show that even when the characteristics of the models are substantially different, such as in the case of a phenomenological model and a physically-based one, our remapped renderings are indistinguishable from the original source model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TVCG.2018.2886877
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Rendering (computer graphics),Computational modeling,Lighting,Measurement,Probes,Visualization,Optimization
Journal
26
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1077-2626
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
19
7