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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering >> 2019, Volume 20, Issue 9 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.1800693

Modeling yarn-level geometry from a single micro-image

State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

Available online: 2019-11-07

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Abstract

Different types of cloth show distinctive appearances owing to their unique yarn-level geometrical details. Despite its importance in applications such as cloth rendering and simulation, capturing yarn-level geometry is nontrivial and requires special hardware, e.g., computed tomography scanners, for conventional methods. In this paper, we propose a novel method that can produce the yarn-level geometry of real cloth using a single micro-image, captured by a consumer digital camera with a macro lens. Given a single input image, our method estimates the large-scale yarn geometry by image shading, and the fine-scale fiber details can be recovered via the proposed fiber tracing and generation algorithms. Experimental results indicate that our method can capture the detailed yarn-level geometry of a wide range of cloth and reproduce plausible cloth appearances.

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