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We present Lighting in Motion (LiMo), a diffusion-based approach to spatiotemporal lighting estimation. LiMo targets both realistic high-frequency detail prediction and accurate illuminance estimation. To account for both, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Christophe Bolduc , Julien Philip , Li Ma , Mingming He , Paul Debevec , Jean-François Lalonde

Accurately estimating scene lighting is critical for applications such as mixed reality. Existing works estimate illumination by generating illumination maps or regressing illumination parameters. However, the method of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Xinlong Ji , Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu , Shi-Sheng Huang , Hua Huang

We propose a real-time method to estimate spatiallyvarying indoor lighting from a single RGB image. Given an image and a 2D location in that image, our CNN estimates a 5th order spherical harmonic representation of the lighting at the given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Mathieu Garon , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Sunil Hadap , Nathan Carr , Jean-François Lalonde

The task of recalibrating the illumination settings in an image to a target configuration is known as relighting. Relighting techniques have potential applications in digital photography, gaming industry and in augmented reality. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Densen Puthussery , Hrishikesh P. S. , Melvin Kuriakose , Jiji C.

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can serve as powerful neural rendering engines that can be leveraged for inserting virtual objects into images. However, unlike typical physics-based renderers, these neural rendering engines are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Frédéric Fortier-Chouinard , Zitian Zhang , Louis-Etienne Messier , Mathieu Garon , Anand Bhattad , Jean-François Lalonde

Reconstructing an object from photos and placing it virtually in a new environment goes beyond the standard novel view synthesis task as the appearance of the object has to not only adapt to the novel viewpoint but also to the new lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Benjamin Ummenhofer , Sanskar Agrawal , Rene Sepulveda , Yixing Lao , Kai Zhang , Tianhang Cheng , Stephan Richter , Shenlong Wang , German Ros

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 a differentiable rendering framework for material and lighting estimation from multi-view images and a reconstructed geometry. In the framework, we represent scene lightings as the Neural Incident Light Field (NeILF) and material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Yao Yao , Jingyang Zhang , Jingbo Liu , Yihang Qu , Tian Fang , David McKinnon , Yanghai Tsin , Long Quan

We present a learning-based method to infer plausible high dynamic range (HDR), omnidirectional illumination given an unconstrained, low dynamic range (LDR) image from a mobile phone camera with a limited field of view (FOV). For training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Chloe LeGendre , Wan-Chun Ma , Graham Fyffe , John Flynn , Laurent Charbonnel , Jay Busch , Paul Debevec

Illumination estimation remains a pivotal challenge in image processing, particularly for robotics, where robust environmental perception is essential under varying lighting conditions. Traditional approaches, such as RGB histograms and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Selcuk Yazar

In this work, we address the problem of jointly estimating albedo, normals, depth and 3D spatially-varying lighting from a single image. Most existing methods formulate the task as image-to-image translation, ignoring the 3D properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zian Wang , Jonah Philion , Sanja Fidler , Jan Kautz

Event cameras offer significant advantages for low-light video enhancement, primarily due to their high dynamic range. Current research, however, is severely limited by the absence of large-scale, real-world, and spatio-temporally aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kanghao Chen , Guoqiang Liang , Hangyu Li , Yunfan Lu , Lin Wang

Estimating scene lighting from a single image or video remains a longstanding challenge in computer vision and graphics. Learning-based approaches are constrained by the scarcity of ground-truth HDR environment maps, which are expensive to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruofan Liang , Kai He , Zan Gojcic , Igor Gilitschenski , Sanja Fidler , Nandita Vijaykumar , Zian Wang

In this paper we are extracting surface reflectance and natural environmental illumination from a reflectance map, i.e. from a single 2D image of a sphere of one material under one illumination. This is a notoriously difficult problem, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Stamatios Georgoulis , Konstantinos Rematas , Tobias Ritschel , Mario Fritz , Luc Van Gool , Tinne Tuytelaars

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

We present a physics-based inverse rendering method that learns the illumination, geometry, and materials of a scene from posed multi-view RGB images. To model the illumination of a scene, existing inverse rendering works either completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Youming Deng , Xueting Li , Sifei Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Color descriptors are one of the important features used in content-based image retrieval. The Dominant Color Descriptor (DCD) represents a few perceptually dominant colors in an image through color quantization. For image retrieval based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Min-Hee Jang , Sang-Wook Kim , Christos Faloutsos , Sunju Park

Recovering the geometry and materials of objects from a single image is challenging due to its under-constrained nature. In this paper, we present Neural LightRig, a novel framework that boosts intrinsic estimation by leveraging auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zexin He , Tengfei Wang , Xin Huang , Xingang Pan , Ziwei Liu

Omnidirectional lighting provides the foundation for achieving spatially-variant photorealistic 3D rendering, a desirable property for mobile augmented reality applications. However, in practice, estimating omnidirectional lighting can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yiqin Zhao , Tian Guo

We introduce the first learning-based dense matching algorithm, termed Equirectangular Projection-Oriented Dense Kernelized Feature Matching (EDM), specifically designed for omnidirectional images. Equirectangular projection (ERP) images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dongki Jung , Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Somi Jeong , Taejae Lee , Dinesh Manocha , Suyong Yeon