Interactive Parameter Retrieval for Two-Tone Procedural Textures

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 71 - 79
• Main Authors: Gieseke, L., Koch, S., Hahn, J.-U., Fuchs, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2014
• Subjects: Analysis; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Color; Computer graphics; I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism-Color; I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three‐Dimensional Graphics and Realism—Color, shading, shadowing and texture; I.3.m [Computer Graphics]: Miscellaneous-Image-based modeling; Image retrieval; Interactive; Mathematical models; Multimedia computer applications; Retrieval; shading; shadowing and texture; Studies; Surface layer; Tasks; Texture
• ISSN: 0167-7055; 1467-8659
• DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12414

The choice of parameters for procedural textures to achieve a desired appearance poses a challenging problem even for experienced artists. We propose a method to automatically determine such parameters to reproduce the appearance of input images. Addressing two‐tone textures, we separate the estimation of color and structure information and interpret the problem as image retrieval task from the space of procedural outputs. Applying a perceptually motivated image metric based on a texture descriptor enables us to precompute a comprehensive collection of possible parameter sets and yet achieve interactive retrieval performance. Our method supports a large variety of procedural texture models with a unified approach.