Surface light fields for 3D photography

A surface light field is a function that assigns a color to each ray originating on a surface. Surface light fields are well suited to constructing virtual images of shiny objects under complex lighting conditions. This paper presents a framework for construction, compression, interactive rendering, and rudimentary editing of surface light fields of real objects. Generalizations of vector quantization and principal component analysis are used to construct a compressed representation of an object’s surface light field from photographs and range scans. A new rendering algorithm achieves interactive rendering of images from the compressed representation, incorporating view-dependent geometric level-of-detail control. The surface light field representation can also be directly edited to yield plausible surface light fields for small changes in surface geometry and reflectance properties. CR Categories: I.3.2. [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation– Digitizing and scannin...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: SIGGRAPH
• Authors: Daniel N. Wood, Daniel I. Azuma, Ken Aldinger, Brian Curless, Tom Duchamp, David Salesin, Werner Stuetzle
• Keywords: Computer Graphics, Interactive Rendering, Plausible Surface Light, SIGGRAPH 2000, Surface Light fields