"Fast Image-based Separation of Diffuse and Specular Reflections"
Bruce Lamond, Pieter Peers, and Paul Debevec

Institute for Creative Technologies, USC, ICT-TR-02.2007, May 2007
Abstract
We present a novel image-based method for separating diffuse and specular reflections of real objects under distant environmental illumination. By illuminating a scene with only four high frequency illumination patterns, the specular and diffuse reflections can be separated by computing the maximum and minimum observed pixel values. Furthermore, we show that our method can be extended to separate the diffuse and specular component under image-based environmental illumination. Applications range from image-based modeling of reflectance properties to improved normal and geometry acquisition.


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  • Bruce Lamond, Pieter Peers, and Paul Debevec, "Fast Image-based Separation of Diffuse and Specular Reflections", ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Sketches, San Diego, USA, August 2007,
Bibtex
@techreport{Lamond:2007:FIS:TechReport,
author = {Lamond, Bruce and Peers, Pieter and Debevec, Paul},
title = {Fast Image-based Separation of Diffuse and Specular Reflections},
month = {May},
year = {2007},
institution = {Institute for Creative Technologies, USC},
number = {ICT-TR-02.2007},
}