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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2006, Vol. 7 Issue (7): 1160-1167    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2006.A1160
Image Techniques     
Variable refractive index in environment matte
ZHAO Ming-tian, XIAO Shuang-jiu, YANG Xu-bo, MA Li-zhuang
Digital Art Laboratory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China; Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Abstract  Environment matting and compositing is a technique to extract a foreground object, including color, opacity, reflective and refractive properties, from a real-world scene, and synthesize new images by placing it into new environments. The description of the captured object is named environment matte. Recent matting and compositing techniques can produce quite realistic images for objects with complex optical properties. This paper presents an approximate method to transform the matte by simulating variation of the foreground object’s refractive index. Our algorithms can deal with achromatous-and-transparent objects and the experimental results are visually acceptable. Our idea and method can be applied to produce some special video effects, which could be very useful in film making, compared with the extreme difficulty of physically changing an object’s refractive index.

Key wordsEnvironment matting and compositing      Matte      Refractive index      Image-based rendering      Environment map     
Received: 05 April 2006     
CLC:  TP391  
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ZHAO Ming-tian, XIAO Shuang-jiu, YANG Xu-bo, MA Li-zhuang. Variable refractive index in environment matte. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2006, 7(7): 1160-1167.

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