Neural Appearance Model for Cloth Rendering
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2024
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Abstract
The realistic rendering of woven and knitted fabrics has posed significant challenges throughout many years. Previously, fiberbased micro-appearance models have achieved considerable success in attaining high levels of realism. However, rendering such models remains complex due to the intricate internal scatterings of hundreds of fibers within a yarn, requiring vast amounts of memory and time to render. In this paper, we introduce a new framework to capture aggregated appearance by tracing many light paths through the underlying fiber geometry. We then employ lightweight neural networks to accurately model the aggregated BSDF, which allows for the precise modeling of a diverse array of materials while offering substantial improvements in speed and reductions in memory. Furthermore, we introduce a novel importance sampling scheme to further speed up the rate of convergence. We validate the efficacy and versatility of our framework through comparisons with preceding fiber-based shading models as well as the most recent yarn-based model.
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CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies → Reflectance modeling
@article{10.1111:cgf.15156,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Neural Appearance Model for Cloth Rendering}},
author = {Soh, Guan Yu and Montazeri, Zahra},
year = {2024},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.15156}
}