Importance sampling of products from illumination and BRDF using spherical radial basis functions

Visual Computer

Volumn 24, Issue 7-9, 2008, Pages 817-826

  Tsai, Yu Ting ^b   Chang, Chin Chen ^a   Jiang, Qing Zhen ^b   Weng, Shr Ching ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bidirectional reflectance distribution function; Environment map; Illumination; Importance sampling; Spherical radial basis function

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MAPS; MIXING; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SAMPLING;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; (E ,3E) PROCESS; BI-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (BRDF); ENVIRONMENT MAP; FITTING ALGORITHMS; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR); IMPORTANCE SAMPLING (IS); INITIAL GUESSES; NEW APPROACHES; RADIAL-BASIS FUNCTION (RBF); RENDERING PROCESS; RUN TIME; SPHERICAL(PIVOT); SPRINGER (CO);

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 46749105480     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-008-0263-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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