This article highlights some recent results on the capture and interactive display of high quality 3D models with complex appearance. For use in photorealistic renderingor object recognition, a high quality model must capture two things: the shape of the object represented as a geometric description of its surface and the appearance of the materials it is made of, e.g. the object´s color, texture, or reflection properties. The article shows how computer vision and computer graphics techniques can be seamlessly integrated into a 3D object pipeline for capturing, processing, and interactive display of objects with complex appearance.
Print ISSN: 1611-2776
Volume: 44, 06/2002
Pages: 322