CURRENT PROGRAMME
3.3.2021 | initial meeting |
10.3.2021 | No meeting |
17.3.2021 | Asen Atanasov A Multiscale Microfacet Model Based on Inverse Bin Mapping
Accurately controllable shading detail is a crucial aspect of realistic appearance modelling. Two fundamental building blocks for this are microfacet BRDFs, which describe the statistical behaviour of infinitely small facets, and normal maps, which provide user-controllable spatio-directional surface features. We analyse the filtering of the combined effect of a microfacet BRDF and a normal map. By partitioning the half-vector domain into bins we show that the filtering problem can be reduced to evaluation of an integral histogram (IH), a generalization of a summed-area table (SAT). Integral histograms are known for their large memory requirements, which are usually proportional to the number of bins. To alleviate this, we introduce Inverse Bin Maps, a specialised form of IH with a memory footprint that is practically independent of the number of bins. Based on these, we present a memory-efficient, production-ready approach for filtering of high resolution normal maps with arbitrary Beckmann flake roughness. |
24.3.2021 | Tobias Rittig Neural Acceleration of Scattering-Aware Color 3D Printing
With the wider availability of full-color 3D printers, color-accurate 3D-print preparation has received increased attention. A key |
31.3.2021 | No meeting today |
7.4.2021 | start 15:15
Filip Jurčák
One of the important steps in modeling realistic 3D scenes is setting material appearance of the various scene objects. The goal of our ongoing project is to simplify this often tedious task by providing the 3D artist with an intelligent material picker tool. The tool should allow user to ‘pick’ a material from any given input image by simply pointing to an object. A deep neural network will be trained to achieve this nontrivial goal. An extensive set of training data will be provided, where the complex correspondence between the image pixels and the underlying object material will be available. The network should be then able to recover this pixel-material correspondence from new, previously unseen images. |
14.4.2021 | No meeting today |
21.4.2021 | TBA |
28.4.2021 | Lucia |
5.5.2021 | TBA |
12.5.2021 | Rector’s day |
19.5.2021 | TBA |
26.5.2021 | TBA |
2.6.2021 | SkyGAN |
(Excursion ideas: Eli, other VFX houses, Metrology institute, Valeo, CIIRC, VRgineers, liv.tv)