Title
Practical Image-Based Relighting and Editing with Spherical-Harmonics and Local Lights
Abstract
We present a practical technique for image-based relighting under environmental illumination which greatly reduces the number of required photographs compared to traditional techniques, while still achieving high quality editable relighting results. The proposed method employs an optimization procedure to combine spherical harmonics, a global lighting basis, with a set of local lights. Our choice of lighting basis captures both low and high frequency components of typical surface reflectance functions while generating close approximations to the ground truth with an order of magnitude less data. This technique benefits the acquisition process by reducing the number of required photographs, while simplifying the modification of reflectance data and enabling artistic lighting edits for post-production effects. Here, we demonstrate two desirable lighting edits, modifying light intensity and angular width, employing the proposed lighting basis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CVMP.2011.22
CVMP '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Conference for Visual Media Production
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
required photograph,global lighting basis,desirable lighting edit,artistic lighting edit,local lights,high frequency component,proposed lighting basis,image-based relighting,high quality editable,practical technique
Conference
978-1-4673-0117-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.73
19
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Borom Tunwattanapong11138.54
Abhijeet Ghosh277258.87
Paul Debevec34955449.10