Understanding as well as realistic reproduction of the appearance of materials play an
important role in computer graphics, computer vision and industry. They enable applications …

BRDFs are commonly used to represent given materials' appearance in computer graphics
and related fields. Although, in the recent past, BRDFs have been extensively measured …

The demands for digital 3D content for numerous applications such as video games, movies,
virtual prototyping, advertisement, virtual reality, augmented reality or even digital …

VR/AR technology is a key enabler for new ways of immersively experiencing cultural
heritage artifacts based on their virtual counterparts obtained from a digitization process. In …

The estimation of the optical properties of a material from RGB-images is an important but
extremely ill-posed problem in Computer Graphics. While recent works have successfully …

The development of novel analytical BRDF models, as well as adaptive BRDF sampling
approaches, rely on the appropriate BRDF measurement of real materials. The quality of …

Many representations and rendering techniques have been proposed for presenting
material appearance in computer graphics. One outstanding problem is evaluating their …

Materials exhibit an extraordinary range of visual appearances. Characterizing and
quantifying appearance is important not only for basic research on perceptual mechanisms …

The hyperspectral component of bidirectional reflectance measurements, namely from
several hundred wavelengths upwards, is attracting growing interest for numerous …

A photo-realistic representation of material appearance can be achieved by means of
bidirectional texture function (BTF) capturing a material's appearance for varying …