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Neural Acceleration of Scattering-Aware Color 3D Printing

Rittig, T; Sumin, D; Babaei, V; Didyk, P; Voloboy, A; Wilkie, A; Bickel, B; ... Křivánek, J; + view all (2021) Neural Acceleration of Scattering-Aware Color 3D Printing. Computer Graphics Forum , 40 (2) pp. 205-219. 10.1111/cgf.142626. Green open access

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Abstract

With the wider availability of full-color 3D printers, color-accurate 3D-print preparation has received increased attention. A key challenge lies in the inherent translucency of commonly used print materials that blurs out details of the color texture. Previous work tries to compensate for these scattering effects through strategic assignment of colored primary materials to printer voxels. To date, the highest-quality approach uses iterative optimization that relies on computationally expensive Monte Carlo light transport simulation to predict the surface appearance from subsurface scattering within a given print material distribution; that optimization, however, takes in the order of days on a single machine. In our work, we dramatically speed up the process by replacing the light transport simulation with a data-driven approach. Leveraging a deep neural network to predict the scattering within a highly heterogeneous medium, our method performs around two orders of magnitude faster than Monte Carlo rendering while yielding optimization results of similar quality level. The network is based on an established method from atmospheric cloud rendering, adapted to our domain and extended by a physically motivated weight sharing scheme that substantially reduces the network size. We analyze its performance in an end-to-end print preparation pipeline and compare quality and runtime to alternative approaches, and demonstrate its generalization to unseen geometry and material values. This for the first time enables full heterogenous material optimization for 3D-print preparation within time frames in the order of the actual printing time.

Type: Article
Title: Neural Acceleration of Scattering-Aware Color 3D Printing
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/cgf.142626
Publisher version: https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.1111/cgf142626
Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10127175
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