Multi-view Gradient Consistency for SVBRDF Estimation of Complex Scenes under Natural Illumination

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13017v1
• Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 23:49:39 GMT
• Title: Multi-view Gradient Consistency for SVBRDF Estimation of Complex Scenes under Natural Illumination
• Authors: Alen Joy and Charalambos Poullis
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a process for estimating the spatially varying surface reflectance of complex scenes observed under natural illumination. An end-to-end process uses a model of the scene's geometry and several images capturing the scene's surfaces. Experiments show that our technique produces realistic results for arbitrary outdoor scenes with complex geometry.
• Score: 6.282068591820945
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents a process for estimating the spatially varying surface reflectance of complex scenes observed under natural illumination. In contrast to previous methods, our process is not limited to scenes viewed under controlled lighting conditions but can handle complex indoor and outdoor scenes viewed under arbitrary illumination conditions. An end-to-end process uses a model of the scene's geometry and several images capturing the scene's surfaces from arbitrary viewpoints and under various natural illumination conditions. We develop a differentiable path tracer that leverages least-square conformal mapping for handling multiple disjoint objects appearing in the scene. We follow a two-step optimization process and introduce a multi-view gradient consistency loss which results in up to 30-50% improvement in the image reconstruction loss and can further achieve better disentanglement of the diffuse and specular BRDFs compared to other state-of-the-art. We demonstrate the process in real-world indoor and outdoor scenes from images in the wild and show that we can produce realistic renders consistent with actual images using the estimated reflectance properties. Experiments show that our technique produces realistic results for arbitrary outdoor scenes with complex geometry. The source code is publicly available at: https://gitlab.com/alen.joy/multi-view-gradient-consistency-for-svbrdf-estimation-of-complex-scenes- under-natural-illumination

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