Research project

Texture Synthesis

Virtual worlds in current games and movies have a insatiable demand for texture detail. Creating all textures manually is prohibitive.
Example based texture synthesis seems like an ideal approach to address this issue: The artists paints a small example texture and the system synthesizes it across arbitrary large surfaces.
Texture synthesis has been a very active research area in the past and while it is considered a solved problem, working texture synthesis products have not yet arrived on the market. Two major reasons for this are the ease of use for artists

most algorithms have many parameters to tweak for optimal results - and

scalability - most algorithms deal with mega-texels, while current movies easily require giga-texels per character.

Project manager:
Dr.-Ing. Christian Eisenacher

Project participants:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Stamminger, Lefebvre, Sylvain, Shek, Arthur

Keywords:
Texture; Synthesis; Content creation;

Duration: 1.7.2007 - 31.12.2012

Mitwirkende Institutionen:
INRIA
Disney Animation Studios

Publications

Eisenacher, Christian ; Lefebvre, Sylvain ; Stamminger, Marc: Texture Synthesis From Photographs. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2008) 27 (2008), No. 2, pp 419-428

Eisenacher, Christian ; Tappan, Chuck ; Burley, Brent ; Teece, Daniel ; Shek, Arthur: Example-based Texture Synthesis on Disneys Tangled. In: ACM (Org.) : Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2010, Production Talks (ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Los Angeles, USA). 2010, pp -.

Panareda Busto, Pau ; Eisenacher, Christian ; Lefebvre, Sylvain ; Stamminger, Marc: Instant Texture Synthesis by Numbers. In: Koch, Reinhard ; Kolb, Andreas ; Rezk-Salama, Christof (Ed.) : Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2010 (Eurographics Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2010 Siegen 15.11.2010 - 17.11.2010). 2010, pp 81-85. - ISBN 978-3-905673-79-1

Chajdas, Matthäus G. ; Eisenacher, Christian ; Stamminger, Marc ; Lefebvre, Sylvain: Virtual Texture Mapping 101. In: Engel, Wolfgang (Ed.) : GPU Pro. Vol. 1, 1. Edition - : AK Peters, Ltd, 2010, pp 185-195. - ISBN 978-1-56881-472-8

Chajdas, Matthäus ; Lefebvre, Sylvain ; Stamminger, Marc: Assisted Texture Assignment. In: ACM Siggraph (Org.) : Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2010 (I3D 2010). Washington : ACM Press, 2010, pp 173-179.
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