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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

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

In this paper we show how to perform scene-level inverse rendering to recover shape, reflectance and lighting from a single, uncontrolled image using a fully convolutional neural network. The network takes an RGB image as input, regresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Ye Yu , William A. P. Smith

Existing face relighting methods often struggle with two problems: maintaining the local facial details of the subject and accurately removing and synthesizing shadows in the relit image, especially hard shadows. We propose a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Andrew Hou , Ze Zhang , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Yiying Tong , Xiaoming Liu

Shadow removal is an important computer vision task aiming at the detection and successful removal of the shadow produced by an occluded light source and a photo-realistic restoration of the image contents. Decades of re-search produced a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Andres Romero , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Manipulating the light source of given images is an interesting task and useful in various applications, including photography and cinematography. Existing methods usually require additional information like the geometric structure of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Li-Wen Wang , Wan-Chi Siu , Zhi-Song Liu , Chu-Tak Li , Daniel P. K. Lun

We introduce a model named DreamLight for universal image relighting in this work, which can seamlessly composite subjects into a new background while maintaining aesthetic uniformity in terms of lighting and color tone. The background can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yong Liu , Wenpeng Xiao , Qianqian Wang , Junlin Chen , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yansong Tang

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

Estimating and modelling the appearance of an object under outdoor illumination conditions is a complex process. Although there have been several studies on illumination estimation and relighting, very few of them focus on estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Farhan Rahman Wasee , Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

We propose a 3D Gaussian splatting-based framework for outdoor relighting that leverages intrinsic image decomposition to precisely integrate sunlight, sky radiance, and indirect lighting from unconstrained photo collections. Unlike prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Haiyang Bai , Jiaqi Zhu , Songru Jiang , Wei Huang , Tao Lu , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Runze Fu , Yanwen Guo , Lijun Chen

We present a deep neural network for removing undesirable shading features from an unconstrained portrait image, recovering the underlying texture. Our training scheme incorporates three regularization strategies: masked loss, to emphasize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Joshua Weir , Junhong Zhao , Andrew Chalmers , Taehyun Rhee

Removing objects from images is a challenging problem that is important for many applications, including mixed reality. For believable results, the shadows that the object casts should also be removed. Current inpainting-based methods only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Edward Zhang , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Janne Kontkanen , Brian Curless

Previous image based relighting methods require capturing multiple images to acquire high frequency lighting effect under different lighting conditions, which needs nontrivial effort and may be unrealistic in certain practical use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Di Qiu , Jin Zeng , Zhanghan Ke , Wenxiu Sun , Chengxi Yang

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

As vision based perception methods are usually built on the normal light assumption, there will be a serious safety issue when deploying them into low light environments. Recently, deep learning based methods have been proposed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Junjie Hu , Xiyue Guo , Junfeng Chen , Guanqi Liang , Fuqin Deng , Tin lun Lam

Illumination effects in images, specifically cast shadows and shading, have been shown to decrease the performance of deep neural networks on a large number of vision-based detection, recognition and segmentation tasks in urban driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Alexandra Carlson , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

We propose DeRenderNet, a deep neural network to decompose the albedo and latent lighting, and render shape-(in)dependent shadings, given a single image of an outdoor urban scene, trained in a self-supervised manner. To achieve this goal,…

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

Creating relightable urban scenes from images or videos is widely useful but highly ill-posed. Urban environments are typically unbounded and extend beyond the visible regions. As a result, many portions of the scene remain unobserved, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yonghao Zhao , Zexin Yin , Jian Yang , Beibei Wang , Jin Xie

Machine learning based Single Image Intrinsic Decomposition (SIID) methods decompose a captured scene into its albedo and shading images by using the knowledge of a large set of known and realistic ground truth decompositions. Collecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Louis Lettry , Kenneth Vanhoey , Luc van Gool

Detailed 3D reconstruction and photo-realistic relighting of digital humans are essential for various applications. To this end, we propose a novel sparse-view 3d human reconstruction framework that closely incorporates the occupancy field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Ruichen Zheng , Peng Li , Haoqian Wang , Tao Yu