SVBRDF Recovery from a Single Image with Highlights Using a Pre‐trained Generative Adversarial Network
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2022
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© 2022 Eurographics ‐ The European Association for Computer Graphics and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Spatially varying bi‐directional reflectance distribution functions (SVBRDFs) are crucial for designers to incorporate new materials in virtual scenes, making them look more realistic. Reconstruction of SVBRDFs is a long‐standing problem. Existing methods either rely on an extensive acquisition system or require huge datasets, which are non‐trivial to acquire. We aim to recover SVBRDFs from a single image, without any datasets. A single image contains incomplete information about the SVBRDF, making the reconstruction task highly ill‐posed. It is also difficult to separate between the changes in colour that are caused by the material and those caused by the illumination, without the prior knowledge learned from the dataset. In this paper, we use an unsupervised generative adversarial neural network (GAN) to recover SVBRDFs maps with a single image as input. To better separate the effects due to illumination from the effects due to the material, we add the hypothesis that the material is stationary and introduce a new loss function based on Fourier coefficients to enforce this stationarity. For efficiency, we train the network in two stages: reusing a trained model to initialize the SVBRDFs and fine‐tune it based on the input image. Our method generates high‐quality SVBRDFs maps from a single input photograph, and provides more vivid rendering results compared to the previous work. The two‐stage training boosts runtime performance, making it eight times faster than the previous work.
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@article{10.1111:cgf.14514,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{SVBRDF Recovery from a Single Image with Highlights Using a Pre‐trained Generative Adversarial Network}},
author = {Wen, Tao and Wang, Beibei and Zhang, Lei and Guo, Jie and Holzschuch, Nicolas},
year = {2022},
publisher = {© 2022 Eurographics ‐ The European Association for Computer Graphics and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.14514}
}