Material Appearance Modeling

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    An Adaptive Metric for BRDF Appearance Matching
    (The Eurographics Association, 2020) Bieron, James; Peers, Pieter; Klein, Reinhard and Rushmeier, Holly
    Image-based BRDF matching is a special case of inverse rendering, where the parameters of a BRDF model are optimized based on a photograph of a homogeneous material under natural lighting. Using a perceptual image metric, directly optimizing the difference between a rendering and a reference image can provide a close visual match between the model and reference material. However, perceptual image metrics rely on image-features and thus require full resolution renderings that can be costly to produce especially when embedded in a non-linear search procedure for the optimal BRDF parameters. Using a pixel-based metric, such as the squared difference, can approximate the image error from a small subset of pixels. Unfortunately, pixel-based metrics are often a poor approximation of human perception of the material's appearance. We show that comparable quality results to a perceptual metric can be obtained using an adaptive pixel-based metric that is optimized based on the appearance similarity of the material. As the core of our adaptive metric is pixel-based, our method is amendable to imagesubsampling, thereby greatly reducing the computational cost.
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    Estimating Homogeneous Data-driven BRDF Parameters from a Reflectance Map under Known Natural Lighting
    (The Eurographics Association, 2019) Cooper, Victoria L.; Bieron, James C.; Peers, Pieter; Klein, Reinhard and Rushmeier, Holly
    In this paper we demonstrate robust estimation of the model parameters of a fully-linear data-driven BRDF model from a reflectance map under known natural lighting. To regularize the estimation of the model parameters, we leverage the reflectance similarities within a material class. We approximate the space of homogeneous BRDFs using a Gaussian mixture model, and assign a material class to each Gaussian in the mixture model. Next, we compute a linear solution per material class. Finally, we select the best candidate as the final estimate. We demonstrate the efficacy and robustness of our method using the MERL BRDF database under a variety of natural lighting conditions.