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Image-based appearance acquisition of effect coatings

Computational Visual Media volume 5, pages 73–89 (2019)Cite this article

Abstract

Paint manufacturers strive to introduce unique visual effects to coatings in order to visually communicate functional properties of products using value-added, customized design. However, these effects often feature complex, angularly dependent, spatially-varying behavior, thus representing a challenge in digital reproduction. In this paper we analyze several approaches to capturing spatially-varying appearances of effect coatings. We compare a baseline approach based on a bidirectional texture function (BTF) with four variants of half-difference parameterization. Through a psychophysical study, we determine minimal sampling along individual dimensions of this parameterization. We conclude that, compared to BTF, bivariate representations better preserve visual fidelity of effect coatings, better characterizing near-specular behavior and significantly the restricting number of images which must be captured.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Frank J. Maile from Schlenk Metallic Pigments GmbH for sample preparation and inspiring discussions, our colleague Martina Kolafová for organization and running of psychophysical experiments, and all anonymous subjects for the time they devoted to participation in visual experiments. This research was supported by Czech Science Foundation grant 17-18407S.

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Jiří Filip received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees both in cybernetics, from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Since 2002 he has been a researcher at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA) of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Between 2007 and 2009 he was a Marie-Curie research fellow at Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh. He combines methods of image processing, computer graphics, and visual psychophysics. His current research is focused on precise measurement and modeling of material appearance.

Radomír Vávra received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Czech Technical University in Prague. He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA) of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research interests include accurate material appearance measurement techniques and material visualization methods in computer graphics.

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Filip, J., Vávra, R. Image-based appearance acquisition of effect coatings. Comp. Visual Media 5, 73–89 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41095-019-0134-3

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Keywords

  • effect coatings
  • measurement
  • bidirectional texture function (BTF)
  • appearance
  • psychophysical experiment