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This article is based on [1]. We wanna a way to train the object tags that we are interested. Darknet has a Windows version that is ported by AlexeyAB [2]. First of all, we need to build darknet.exe from AlexeyAB to help us train and test data. Go to build/darknet, using VS 2015 to open darknet.sln, and config it to x64 solution platform. Rebuild solution! It should be success to generate darknet.exe. Then, we need to label objects from images that are used for training data. I use BBox label tool to help me label objects' coordinates in images for training data. (python ./main.py) This tool's image root folder is at ./Images, we can create a sub-folder ( 002 ) and insert 002 to let this tool load all *.jpg files from there. We will mark labels in this tool to help us generate objects' region to mark where objects are. The outputs are the image-space coordinate in images and stored at ./Labels/002 . However, the format of this coordinate is different from YOLOv2, YOLOv2...

Fig.1 - Fast Subsurface scattering of Stanford Bunny Based on the implementation of three.js . It provides a cheap, fast, and convincing approach to do ray-tracing in translucent surfaces. It refers the sharing in GDC 2011  [1], and the approach is used by Frostbite 2 and Unity engines [1][2][3]. Traditionally, when a ray intersects with surfaces, it needs to calculate the bouncing result after intersections. Materials can be divided into three types roughly.  Opaque , lights can't go through its geometry and the ray will be bounced back.  Transparency , the ray passes and allow it through the surface totally, it probably would loose a little energy after leaving.  Translucency , the ray after entering the surface will be bounced internally like below Fig. 2. Fig.2 - BSSRDF [1] In the case of translucency, we have several subsurface scattering approaches to solve our problem. When a light is traveling inside the shape, that needs to consider the ...

According to the image from  Physically Based Shading At Disney  as below, the left is the real chrome, the middle is PBR approach, and the right is Blinn-Phong. We can find PBR is more closer to the real case, and the difference part is the specular lighting part. Blinn-Phong The most important part of specular term in Blinn-Phong is it uses half-vector instead of using dot(lightDir, normalDir) to avoid the traditional Phong lighting model hard shape problem. vec3 BRDF_Specular_BlinnPhong( vec3 lightDir, vec3 viewDir, vec3 normal, vec3 specularColor, float shininess ) { vec3 halfDir = normalize( lightDir + viewDir ); float dotNH = saturate( dot( normal, halfDir ) ); float dotLH = saturate( dot( lightDir, halfDir ) ); vec3 F = F_Schlick( specularColor, dotLH ); float G = G_BlinnPhong_Implicit( ); float D = D_BlinnPhong( shininess, dotNH ); return F * ( G * D ); } Physically-Based rendering Regarding to the lighting model of GGX, UE4 Shading present...