Title
An Adaptive BRDF Fitting Metric.
Abstract
We propose a novel image-driven fitting strategy for isotropic BRDFs. Whereas existing BRDF fitting methods minimize a cost function directly on the error between the fitted analytical BRDF and the measured isotropic BRDF samples, we also take into account the resulting material appearance in visualizations of the BRDF. This change of fitting paradigm improves the appearance reproduction fidelity, especially for analytical BRDF models that lack the expressiveness to reproduce the measured surface reflectance. We formulate BRDF fitting as a two-stage process that first generates a series of candidate BRDF fits based only on the BRDF error with measured BRDF samples. Next, from these candidates, we select the BRDF fit that minimizes the visual error. We demonstrate qualitatively and quantitatively improved fits for the Cook-Torrance and GGX microfacet BRDF models. Furthermore, we present an analysis of the BRDF fitting results, and show that the image-driven isotropic BRDF fits generalize well to other light conditions, and that depending on the measured material, a different weighting of errors with respect to the measured BRDF is necessary.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1111/cgf.14054
COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Isotropic BRDF,fitting,image-driven
Journal
39.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4.0
0167-7055
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James C. Bieron120.70
Pieter Peers2110955.34