Acquisition, Synthesis and Rendering of Bidirectional Texture Functions
Abstract
One of the main challenges in computer graphics is still the realistic rendering of complex materials such as fabric or skin. The difficulty arises from the complex meso structure and reflectance behavior defining the unique look-and-feel of a material. A wide class of such realistic materials can be described as 2D-texture under varying light- and view direction namely the Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF). Since an easy and general method for modeling BTFs is not available, current research concentrates on image-based methods which rely on measured BTFs (acquired real-world data) in combination with appropriate synthesis methods. Recent results have shown that this approach greatly improves the visual quality of rendered surfaces and therefore the quality of applications such as virtual prototyping. This STAR will present in detail the state-of-the-art techniques for the main tasks involved in producing photo-realistic renderings using measured BTFs.
Keywords: color, digitizing and scanning, reflectance, shading, shadowing and texture
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@INPROCEEDINGS{eg-star-2004, author = {M{\"u}ller, Gero and Meseth, Jan and Sattler, Mirko and Sarlette, Ralf and Klein, Reinhard}, editor = {Schlick, Christophe and Purgathofer, Werner}, pages = {69--94}, title = {Acquisition, Synthesis and Rendering of Bidirectional Texture Functions}, booktitle = {Eurographics 2004, State of the Art Reports}, year = {2004}, month = sep, publisher = {INRIA and Eurographics Association}, howpublished = {Eurographics 2004, State of the Art Reports}, keywords = {color, digitizing and scanning, reflectance, shading, shadowing and texture}, abstract = {One of the main challenges in computer graphics is still the realistic rendering of complex materials such as fabric or skin. The difficulty arises from the complex meso structure and reflectance behavior defining the unique look-and-feel of a material. A wide class of such realistic materials can be described as 2D-texture under varying light- and view direction namely the Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF). Since an easy and general method for modeling BTFs is not available, current research concentrates on image-based methods which rely on measured BTFs (acquired real-world data) in combination with appropriate synthesis methods. Recent results have shown that this approach greatly improves the visual quality of rendered surfaces and therefore the quality of applications such as virtual prototyping. This STAR will present in detail the state-of-the-art techniques for the main tasks involved in producing photo-realistic renderings using measured BTFs.}, issn = {1017-4656}, conference = {Eurographics 2004} }