Software & Data Downloads — BRDF

MERL BRDF Database for reflectance modeling.

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. Note that parameterization of theta-half has changed.

    •  Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Brand, M., McMillan, L., "A Data-Driven Reflectance Model", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), DOI: 10.1145/​882262.882343, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 759-769, July 2003.
      BibTeX TR2003-83 PDF Data
      • @article{Matusik2003jul,
      • author = {Matusik, W. and Pfister, H. and Brand, M. and McMillan, L.},
      • title = {{A Data-Driven Reflectance Model}},
      • journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
      • year = 2003,
      • volume = 22,
      • number = 3,
      • pages = {759--769},
      • month = jul,
      • doi = {10.1145/882262.882343},
      • issn = {0730-0301},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2003-83}
      • }

    Access data at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8101680.