MPI-I-2002-4-001

This tutorial highlights some recent results on the acquisition and interactive display of high quality 3D models. For further use in photorealistic rendering or interactive display, a high quality representation must capture two different things: the shape of the model represented as a geometric description of its surface and on the other hand the physical properties of the object. The physics of the material which an object is made of determine its appearance, e.g. the object's color, texture, deformation or reflection properties. The tutorial shows how computer vision and computer graphics techniques can be seamlessly integrated into a single framework for the acquisition, processing, and interactive display of high quality 3D models.