Rapidly simulating global illumination, including diffuse and glossy light transport is a very difficult problem. Finite element or radiosity approaches can achieve interactive si...
We analyse some recent approaches to the global illumination problem by introducing the corresponding reflection operators, and we demonstrate the advantages of a two-pass method....
Estimating the illumination and the reflectance properties
of an object surface from a sparse set of images is an
important but inherently ill-posed problem. The problem
becomes...
Kenji Hara (Kyushu University), Ko Nishino (Drexel...
We consider the problem of capturing shape characteristics on specular (refractive and reflective) surfaces that are nearly flat. These surfaces are difficult to model using tradit...
Atheoreticalframeworkisintroducedfortheperceptionofspecularsurfacegeometry.Whenanobserver moves in three-dimensional space, real scene features such as surface markings remain stat...