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Matting and Compositing for Fresnel Reflection on Wavy Surfaces
Author(s) -
Endo Yuki,
Kanamori Yoshihiro,
Fukui Yukio,
Mitani Jun
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03139.x
Subject(s) - compositing , reflection (computer programming) , computer science , ray tracing (physics) , plane (geometry) , computer graphics (images) , computer vision , image (mathematics) , object (grammar) , optics , artificial intelligence , geometry , physics , mathematics , programming language
This paper introduces a framework that can extract an alpha matte from a single image with Fresnel reflection, and that can composite other objects with the image such that plausible reflections are included. Our method handles reflections in a plane with small undulations, for example, a water surface with waves or a glossy tabletop. During the matting stage, our method first estimates the transmission color, which is assumed to be uniform, and then calculates a reflection image and alpha matte based on user markups. However, accurate extraction of the matte becomes challenging when a plane has small undulations because these create perturbations in the matte. We therefore propose a filter that can refine the matte effectively. In the compositing stage, the reflection of a composited object is synthesized by ray tracing in real time. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method through comparisons with ground‐truth data and results using natural images as inputs.