Title
Optimizing Portrait Lighting at Capture-Time Using a 360 Camera as a Light Probe
Abstract
We present a capture-time tool designed to help casual photographers orient their subject to achieve a user-specified target facial appearance. The inputs to our tool are an HDR environment map of the scene captured using a 360 camera, and a target facial appearance, selected from a gallery of common studio lighting styles. Our tool computes the optimal orientation for the subject to achieve the target lighting using a computationally efficient precomputed radiance transfer-based approach. It then tells the photographer how far to rotate about the subject. Optionally, our tool can suggest how to orient a secondary external light source (e.g. a phone screen) about the subject's face to further improve the match to the target lighting. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in a variety of indoor and outdoor scenes using many different subjects to achieve a variety of looks. A user evaluation suggests that our tool reduces the mental effort required by photographers to produce well-lit portraits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3332165.3347893
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
360 camera, environment map, portrait lighting
Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Portrait,Human–computer interaction
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6816-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
L. E. Jane1786.40
Ohad Fried21017.20
Maneesh Agrawala35192333.08