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Adaptive Measurement of Material Appearance

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    SYSNO ASEP0486676
    Document TypeD - Thesis
    R&D Document TypeThe record was not marked in the RIV
    TitleAdaptive Measurement of Material Appearance
    Author(s) Vávra, Radomír (UTIA-B) RID, ORCID
    Number of authors1
    Issue dataPraha: FIT ČVUT, 2017
    Number of pages222 s.
    Publication formOnline - E
    Languageeng - English
    CountryCZ - Czech Republic
    Keywordsmaterial appearance ; BRDF ; BTF ; anisotropy ; adaptive measurement ; sparse sampling ; portable setup ; ellipsoidal reflector
    Subject RIVBD - Theory of Information
    OECD categoryApplied mathematics
    R&D ProjectsGA17-18407S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
    GA14-02652S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
    GAP103/11/0335 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
    Institutional supportUTIA-B - RVO:67985556
    AnnotationOne of the ultimate challenges of computer graphics is the realistic visualization of appearance of real-world materials. The appearance can be captured by various approaches, but they are often only approximative or usually require an excessively long measurement time. Therefore, this thesis deals with the precise measurement of material appearance utilizing time-reducing adaptive methods. To better understand the behavior of material appearance, we propose an affordable setup for its instantaneous analysis that is based on an ellipsoidal reflector. Also, we study a human's ability to distinguish structure of a material in a virtual environment in dependence on an observation distance. Although, the first proposed method of adaptive measurement does not require a database of already measured materials, it is precise and very flexible. In this approach, the measured space is filled by one-dimensional continuous signals, which are sampled adaptively. We study the optimal deployment of the signals and propose an interpolation method that enables a quick reconstruction of an arbitrary value. Next, we introduce adaptive approaches that rely on the database. Our template-based methods use precomputed sampling patterns for the measurement of a new material and they achieve better results than conventional methods for more than several hundred samples. On the other hand, our minimal-sampling method achieves outstanding results for less than one hundred samples. It is based on the acquisition of a few samples for each rotation of a material around its normal. Therefore, a measurement setup can be very simple or even industrial multi-angle reflectometers can be used. Among adaptive methods, we introduce a non-adaptive image-based approach for acquisition of a huge number of material samples from a large homogeneous specimen. Also, we use gathered knowledge on material appearance to build an inexpensive setup for the rapid acquisition of approximative datasets and propose a novel method for the correct registration of multi-view images. To sum up, our approaches to analysis and measurement have great potential to improve the efficiency of current material appearance acquisition methods.
    WorkplaceInstitute of Information Theory and Automation
    ContactMarkéta Votavová, votavova@utia.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 052 201.
    Year of Publishing2018
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