In this short note, we extend the notion of texture symmetry to the skewed symmetry and propose a method for calculating the skewed symmetry of a non-rectangular or affine-distorted bidirectional texture. Results for a number of natural textures are shown.

abstract   disease mapping includes a set of statistical techniques that lead to provide clean maps based on estimation of the incidence, prevalence and mortality rates for the users to be able to estimate the distribution of disease reliably. the main aims of disease mapping are to: describe the spatial variation in disease incidence for the formulation of etiological hypotheses; identify area...

We present a statistical method for the estimation of the Spatially Varying Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (SVBRDF) of an object with complex geometry, starting from video sequences acquired with fixed but general lighting conditions. The aim of this work is to define a method that simplifies the acquisition phase of the object surface appearance and allows to reconstruct an ap...

We build on our previously proposed method [Francken et al. 2008], which acquires normal maps by analyzing the reflection of binary patterns (Gray codes). These patterns are successively refined in this process. The key idea in this paper, is that this refinement also allows us to measure the shininess for each spatial location, resulting in a gloss map. Acquiring spatially varying reflectance ...