BRDF Database - Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function

Introduction

The MERL BRDF database contains reflectance functions of 100 different materials. Each reflectance function is stored as a densely measured Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF).

Sample code to read the data is included with the database (readBRDF.cpp). Note that parameterization of theta-half has changed.

At a Glance

The size of the unzipped dataset is ~3.25GB

Folder “brdfs” contains the data. Folder “code” contains sample code.

Citation

If you use the BRDF dataset in your research, please cite our contribution:

@article {Matusik:2003,
            author = "Wojciech Matusik and Hanspeter Pfister and Matt Brand and Leonard McMillan",
            title = "A Data-Driven Reflectance Model",
            journal = "ACM Transactions on Graphics",
            year = "2003",
            month = jul,
            volume = "22",
            number = "3",
            pages = "759-769"
}

License

The BRDF dataset is released under CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.

All data:

Created by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), 2003, 2007, 2023

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0