Reflectance Modelling of Surfaces from Scanning Electron Microscope Data
EMSL Project ID
1755
Abstract
One of the underlying themes of computer graphics is photorealistic imagery: creating synthetic images that are indistinguishable from real photographs. A current manifestation of this theme is image-based rendering. In this, data is collected from the real world and used in the generation of synthetic imagery. My Master's student, Shuyang Li, and I propose to model reflectance properties of real materials by modelling the interaction of light with a surface reconstructed from scanning electron microscope data. The resulting model can then be applied to any synthetic, graphically-constructed object to make it appear as though it was made from the SEM-scanned material. For this, we need to capture some SEM images of common materials (metal, plastic, paper, etc.). (Ms. Li will not be participating in this data collection phase.)
Project Details
Project type
Exploratory Research
Start Date
1999-11-29
End Date
2000-06-01
Status
Closed
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Team
Principal Investigator