Abstract
Estimating and modeling the appearance of an object under outdoor illumination conditions is a complex process. This article addresses this problem and proposes a complete framework to predict the surface reflectance properties of outdoor scenes under unknown natural illumination. Uniquely, we recast the problem into its two constituent components involving the bidirectional reflectance distribution function incoming light and outgoing view directions: first, surface points' radiance captured in the images, and outgoing view directions are aggregated and encoded into reflectance maps, and second, a neural network trained on reflectance maps infers a low-parameter reflection model. Our model is based on phenomenological and physics-based scattering models. Experiments show that rendering with the predicted reflectance properties results in a visually similar appearance to using textures that cannot otherwise be disentangled from the reflectance properties.
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