Kurt, MuratÖztürk, AydinPeers, PieterSilvester Czanner and Wen Tang2014-01-312014-01-312013978-3-905673-98-2https://doi.org/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents.TPCG.TPCG13.085-092This paper presents a novel compact factored subsurface scattering representation for optically thick, heterogeneous translucent materials. Our subsurface scattering representation is a combination of Tucker-based factorization and a linear regression method. We first apply Tucker factorization on the intensity profiles of the heterogeneous subsurface scattering responses. Next, we fit a polynomial model for characterizing the differences between the different color channels with a linear regression procedure. We show that our method achieves good compression while maintaining visual fidelity. We validate our heterogeneous subsurface scattering representation on various real-world heterogeneous translucent materials, geometries and lighting conditions.I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]Three Dimensional Graphics and RealismColorshadingshadowingand texture