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Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Inferring walls configuration of indoor environment could help robot "understand" the environment better. This allows the robot to execute a task that involves inter-room navigation, such as picking an object in the kitchen. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Ismail Rusli , Bambang Riyanto Trilaksono , Widyawardana Adiprawita

The aim of colour constancy is to discount the effect of the scene illumination from the image colours and restore the colours of the objects as captured under a 'white' illuminant. For the majority of colour constancy methods, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Ghalia Hemrit , Joseph Meehan

Illumination estimation is often used in mixed reality to re-render a scene from another point of view, to change the color/texture of an object, or to insert a virtual object consistently lit into a real video or photograph. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Grégoire Nieto , Salma Jiddi , Philippe Robert

We present SOLID-Net, a neural network for spatially-varying outdoor lighting estimation from a single outdoor image for any 2D pixel location. Previous work has used a unified sky environment map to represent outdoor lighting. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Yongjie Zhu , Yinda Zhang , Si Li , Boxin Shi

Real-time global illumination is key to enabling more dynamic and physically realistic worlds in performance-critical applications such as games or any other applications with real-time constraints.Hardware-accelerated ray tracing in modern…

We present a pipeline for realistic embedding of virtual objects into footage of indoor scenes with focus on real-time AR applications. Our pipeline consists of two main components: A light estimator and a neural soft shadow texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Alexander Sommer , Ulrich Schwanecke , Elmar Schömer

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely used to solve the illuminant estimation problem and have often led to state-of-the-art results. Standard approaches operate directly on the input image. In this paper, we argue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Jarno Nikkanen , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

We propose a novel method to efficiently estimate the spatial layout of a room from a single monocular RGB image. As existing approaches based on low-level feature extraction, followed by a vanishing point estimation are very slow and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Martin Hirzer , Peter M. Roth , Vincent Lepetit

This paper introduces a novel image-based rendering technique for jointly estimating indoor lighting and thermal conditions from paired indoor-outdoor high dynamic range (HDR) panoramas. Our method uses the indoor panorama to estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Guanzhou Ji , Sriram Narayanan , Azadeh Sawyer , Srinivasa Narasimhan

The goal of this work is to replace objects in an RGB-D scene with corresponding 3D models from a library. We approach this problem by first detecting and segmenting object instances in the scene using the approach from Gupta et al. [13].…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Saurabh Gupta , Pablo Arbeláez , Ross Girshick , Jitendra Malik

Illuminant estimation plays a key role in digital camera pipeline system, it aims at reducing color casting effect due to the influence of non-white illuminant. Recent researches handle this task by using Convolution Neural Network (CNN) as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Yongjie Liu , Sijie Shen

Predicting panoramic indoor lighting from a single perspective image is a fundamental but highly ill-posed problem in computer vision and graphics. To achieve locale-aware and robust prediction, this problem can be decomposed into three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jiayang Bai , Zhen He , Shan Yang , Jie Guo , Zhenyu Chen , Yan Zhang , Yanwen Guo

Recent advances in implicit neural representations and differentiable rendering make it possible to simultaneously recover the geometry and materials of an object from multi-view RGB images captured under unknown static illumination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yuanqing Zhang , Jiaming Sun , Xingyi He , Huan Fu , Rongfei Jia , Xiaowei Zhou

We present a CNN-based technique to estimate high-dynamic range outdoor illumination from a single low dynamic range image. To train the CNN, we leverage a large dataset of outdoor panoramas. We fit a low-dimensional physically-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Sunil Hadap , Emiliano Gambaretto , Jean-François Lalonde

Estimating a scene's lighting is a very important task when compositing synthetic content within real environments, with applications in mixed reality and post-production. In this work we present a data-driven model that estimates an HDR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Vasileios Gkitsas , Nikolaos Zioulis , Federico Alvarez , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

Despite significant advances in algorithms and hardware, global illumination continues to be a challenge in the real-time domain. Time constraints often force developers to either compromise on the quality of global illumination or…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Alexandr Kuznetsov , Stavros Diolatzis , Anton Sochenov , Anton Kaplanyan

We present a method to edit complex indoor lighting from a single image with its predicted depth and light source segmentation masks. This is an extremely challenging problem that requires modeling complex light transport, and disentangling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhengqin Li , Jia Shi , Sai Bi , Rui Zhu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Zexiang Xu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Manmohan Chandraker

We propose a novel external indoor positioning system that computes the position and orientation of multiple model-scale vehicles. For this purpose, we use a camera mounted at a height of 3.3m and LEDs attached to each vehicle. We reach an…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Maximilian Kloock , Patrick Scheffe , Isabelle Tülleners , Janis Maczijewski , Stefan Kowalewski , Bassam Alrifaee

In this work, we focus on outdoor lighting estimation by aggregating individual noisy estimates from images, exploiting the rich image information from wide-angle cameras and/or temporal image sequences. Photographs inherently encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Haebom Lee , Christian Homeyer , Robert Herzog , Jan Rexilius , Carsten Rother