학술논문

An attention-embedded GAN for SVBRDF recovery from a single image
Document Type
Academic Journal
Source
Computational Visual Media. September, 2023, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p551, 11 p.
Subject
Liquors -- Usage
Distribution (Probability theory) -- Analysis -- Usage
Language
English
Abstract
Learning-based approaches have made substantial progress in capturing spatially-varying bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (SVBRDFs) from a single image with unknown lighting and geometry. However, most existing networks only consider per-pixel losses which limit their capability to recover local features such as smooth glossy regions. A few generative adversarial networks use multiple discriminators for different parameter maps, increasing network complexity. We present a novel end-to-end generative adversarial network (GAN) to recover appearance from a single picture of a nearly-flat surface lit by flash. We use a single unified adversarial framework for each parameter map. An attention module guides the network to focus on details of the maps. Furthermore, the SVBRDF map loss is combined to prevent paying excess attention to specular highlights. We demonstrate and evaluate our method on both public datasets and real data. Quantitative analysis and visual comparisons indicate that our method achieves better results than the state-of-the-art in most cases. Keywords spatially-varying bidirectional reflectance distribution function (SVBRDF); appearance capture; generative adversarial network (GAN); attention mechanism
1 Introduction The complex interaction between light and the surfaces of objects with various appearances explain the variations in photographs captured in the real world. Acquiring the surface reflection parameters [...]