BTF Measurements

We introduce the term BTF (bidirectional texture function) to represent the appearance of texture as a function of viewing and illumination direction. When a surface is macroscopically rough, appearance has a complex dependence on illumination and viewing direction. We measured the BTF of 61 real-world surfaces by recording images of each surface with 205 different combinations of viewing and illumination directions. A table is provided which gives the illumination and viewing directions associated with each of the 205 images. The images are stored as 24-bit BMP files, and can readily be radiometrically calibrated .

The 205 images for each sample can be downloaded via anonymous ftp from the directories sample01, sample02, ... sample61 in

 curet.cs.columbia.edu/curet/data

. To download an entire set of images for a particular sample, e.g. sample11, use the following sequence of commands:

ftp curet.cs.columbia.edu
cd /curet/data
cd sample11
prompt
binary
mget *

Any of the 205 images for each sample can be downloaded individually by clicking on the appropriate sample in the graphical sample-list or the text-only sample-list .

An illustration of 3D texture mapping using the images of the database is provided.

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