Image-based BRDF Measurement Including Human Skin

Stephen R. Marschner, Stephen H. Westin, Eric P. F. Lafortune, Kenneth E. Torrance, and Donald P. Greenberg

In Proceedings of 10th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, pages 139-152. Held in Granada, Spain, June 1999.

This paper grew out of a chapter of my thesis. The paper describes the second iteration of our image-based BRDF measurement system, which uses a slightly different setup, as well as a different camera, than the system described in the thesis and in the related Applied Optics paper.

Abstract

We present a new image-based process for measuring the bidirectional reflectance of homogeneous surfaces rapidly, completely, and accurately. For simple sample shapes (spheres and cylinders) the method requires only a digital camera and a stable light source. Adding a 3D scanner allows a wide class of curved near-convex objects to be measured. With measurements for a variety of materials from paints to human skin, we demonstrate the new method's ability to achieve high resolution and accuracy over a large domain of illumination and reflection directions. We verify our measurements by tests of internal consistency and by comparison against measurements made using a gonioreflectometer.

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Steve Marschner (srm@graphics.stanford.edu)