Light and Skin Interactions

Light and Skin Interactions immerses you in one of the most fascinating application areas of computer graphics: appearance simulation. The book first illuminates the fundamental biophysical processes that affect skin appearance, and reviews seminal related works aimed at applications in life and health sciences. It then examines four exemplary modeling approaches as well as definitive algorithms that can be used to generate realistic images depicting skin appearance. Despite its wide scope of simulation approaches, the book’s content is presented in a concise manner, focusing on relevant practical aspects. What’s more, these approaches can be successfully applied to a wide range of additional materials, such as eye tissue, hair, and water.

• Allows you to understand and predict the qualitative and quantitative behavior of complex natural systems
• A general background on tissue optics clarifies several confusing conceptual issues, saving you valuable time in the early stages of research
• Includes complete code and data sources for the BioSpec model

Professionals and practitioners interested in modeling of appearances, image synthesis, colorimetry, computational biology, tissue optics, biomedical (diagnostics) devices, and cosmetic design/validation tools

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Light, Optics and Appearance
2.1 Light as Radiation
2.2 OpticsConcepts
2.3 Light Interactions with Matter
2.4 RadiometricQuantities
2.5 Tissue Optics Definitions and Terminology
2.6 MeasurementofAppearance

Chapter 3: Image Synthesis Context
3.1 Global Light Transport
3.2 Local Light Transport
3.3 Techniques for Model Evaluation
3.4 Color Conversion

Chapter 4: Bio-Optical Properties of Human Skin 
4.1 Structural and Biophysical Characteristics
4.2 Spectral Signatures
4.3 Scattering Profiles
4.4 Interactions with Invisible Light

Chapter 5: Simulations in Health and Life Sciences
5.1 Scope of Applications
5.2 Kubelka-Munk Theory Based Models
5.3 Diffusion Theory Based Models
5.4 Radiative Transport Models
5.5 Monte Carlo Based Models

Chapter 6: Biophysically Inspired Approach
6.1 The Multiple-Layer Scattering Model
6.2 The Discrete-Ordinate Model

Chapter 7: First Principles Approach
7.1 Overview
7.2 Scattering Simulation
7.3 Absorption Simulation
7.4 Implementation Issues
7.5 Strengths and Limitations

Chapter 8: Diffusion Approximation Approach
8.1 Overview
8.2 Scattering Simulation
8.3 Implementation Issues 
8.4 Strengths and Limitations
8.5 Evolution of Diffusion Approximation Based Models

Chapter 9: Simulation Challenges
9.1 Input Data Issues
9.2 Modeling Issues
9.3 Evaluation Issues 
9.4 Performance Issues 

Chapter 10: Beyond Computer Graphics Applications