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Screen-space perceptual rendering of human skin

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Veronica Sundstedt,

Diego GutierrezAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), Volume 6, Issue 4

Article No.: 23, Pages 1 - 15

https://doi.org/10.1145/1609967.1609970

Published: 06 October 2009 Publication History

Abstract

We propose a novel skin shader which translates the simulation of subsurface scattering from texture space to a screen-space diffusion approximation. It naturally scales well while maintaining a perceptually plausible result. This technique allows us to ensure real-time performance even when several characters may appear on screen at the same time. The visual realism of the resulting images is validated using a subjective psychophysical preference experiment. Our results show that, independent of distance and light position, the images rendered using our novel shader have as high visual realism as a previously developed physically-based shader.

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Screen-space perceptual rendering of human skin
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing

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ACM Transactions on Applied Perception Volume 6, Issue 4

September 2009

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DOI:10.1145/1609967

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Published: 06 October 2009

Accepted: 01 August 2009

Received: 01 July 2009

Published in TAP Volume 6, Issue 4

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