Directional statistics-based reflectance model for isotropic bidirectional reflectance distribution functions

作者:Nishino Ko*; Lombardi Stephen
来源:Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 2011, 28(1): 8-18.
DOI:10.1364/JOSAA.28.000008

摘要

We introduce a novel parametric bidirectional reflectance distribution BRDF) model that can accurately encode a wide variety of real-world isotropic BRDFs with a small number of parameters. The key observation we make is that a BRDF may be viewed as a statistical distribution on a unit hemisphere. We derive a novel directional statistics distribution, which we refer to as the hemispherical exponential power distribution, and model real-world isotropic BRDFs as mixtures of it. We derive a canonical probabilistic method for estimating the parameters, including the number of components, of this novel directional statistics BRDF model. We show that the model captures the full spectrum of real-world isotropic BRDFs with high accuracy, but a small footprint. We also demonstrate the advantages of the novel BRDF model by showing its use for reflection component separation and for exploring the space of isotropic BRDFs.

  • 出版日期2011-1