
pmid: 23492378
Shading acquired materials with high-frequency illumination is computationally expensive. Estimating the shading integral requires multiple samples of the incident illumination. The number of samples required may vary across the image, and the image itself may have high- and low-frequency variations, depending on a combination of several factors. Adaptively distributing computational budget across the pixels for shading is a challenging problem. In this paper, we depict complex materials such as acquired reflectances, interactively, without any precomputation based on geometry. In each frame, we first estimate the frequencies in the local light field arriving at each pixel, as well as the variance of the shading integrand. Our frequency analysis accounts for combinations of a variety of factors: the reflectance of the object projecting to the pixel, the nature of the illumination, the local geometry and the camera position relative to the geometry and lighting. We then exploit this frequency information (bandwidth and variance) to adaptively sample for reconstruction and integration. For example, fewer pixels per unit area are shaded for pixels projecting onto diffuse objects, and fewer samples are used for integrating illumination incident on specular objects.
ACM: I.: Computing Methodologies/I.3: COMPUTER GRAPHICS/I.3.7: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism/I.3.7.5: Raytracing, and texture, [INFO.INFO-GR] Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Reproducibility of Results, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Image Enhancement, Sensitivity and Specificity, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], 004, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, ACM: I.: Computing Methodologies/I.3: COMPUTER GRAPHICS/I.3.7: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism/I.3.7.1: Color, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Computer Graphics, shadowing, shading, Algorithms, Lighting
ACM: I.: Computing Methodologies/I.3: COMPUTER GRAPHICS/I.3.7: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism/I.3.7.5: Raytracing, and texture, [INFO.INFO-GR] Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Reproducibility of Results, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Image Enhancement, Sensitivity and Specificity, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], 004, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, ACM: I.: Computing Methodologies/I.3: COMPUTER GRAPHICS/I.3.7: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism/I.3.7.1: Color, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Computer Graphics, shadowing, shading, Algorithms, Lighting
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