Match: Differentiable material graphs for procedural material capture

L Shi, B Li, M Hašan, K Sunkavalli… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We present MATch, a method to automatically convert photographs of material samples into
production-grade procedural material models. At the core of MATch is a new library DiffMat …

An inverse procedural modeling pipeline for svbrdf maps

Y Hu, C He, V Deschaintre, J Dorsey… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Procedural modeling is now the de facto standard of material modeling in industry.
Procedural models can be edited and are easily extended, unlike pixel-based …

Recent advances in glinty appearance rendering

J Zhu, S Zhao, Y Xu, X Meng, L Wang… - Computational Visual …, 2022 - Springer
The interaction between light and materials is key to physically-based realistic rendering.
However, it is also complex to analyze, especially when the materials contain a large …

A novel framework for inverse procedural texture modeling

Y Hu, J Dorsey, H Rushmeier - ACM Transactions on Graphics (ToG), 2019 - dl.acm.org
Procedural textures are powerful tools that have been used in graphics for decades. In
contrast to the alternative exemplar-based texture synthesis techniques, procedural textures …

End-to-end procedural material capture with proxy-free mixed-integer optimization

B Li, L Shi, W Matusik - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2023 - dl.acm.org
Node-graph-based procedural materials are vital to 3D content creation within the computer
graphics industry. Leveraging the expressive representation of procedural materials, artists …

High-performance by-example noise using a histogram-preserving blending operator

E Heitz, F Neyret - Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We propose a new by-example noise algorithm that takes as input a small example of a
stochastic texture and synthesizes an infinite output with the same appearance. It works on …

On demand solid texture synthesis using deep 3d networks

J Gutierrez, J Rabin, B Galerne… - Computer Graphics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes a novel approach for on demand volumetric texture synthesis based
on a deep learning framework that allows for the generation of high‐quality three …

A texture synthesis model based on semi-discrete optimal transport in patch space

B Galerne, A Leclaire, J Rabin - SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2018 - SIAM
Exemplar-based texture synthesis consists in producing new synthetic images which have
the same perceptual characteristics as a given texture sample while exhibiting sufficient …

A survey of control mechanisms for creative pattern generation

L Gieseke, P Asente, R Měch, B Benes… - Computer Graphics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We review recent methods in 2D creative pattern generation and their control mechanisms,
focusing on procedural methods. The review is motivated by an artist's perspective and …

Determinantal point processes for image processing

C Launay, A Desolneux, B Galerne - SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2021 - SIAM
Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are probabilistic models of configurations that favor
diversity or repulsion. They have recently gained influence in the machine learning …