Table-top Computed Lighting for Practical Digital Photography
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Date
2005
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
We apply simplified image-based lighting methods to reduce the equipment, cost, time, and specialized skills required for high-quality photographic lighting of desktop-sized static objects such as museum artifacts. We place the object and a computer-steered moving-head spotlight inside a simple foam-core enclosure, and use a camera to quickly record low-resolution photos as the light scans the box interior. Optimization guided by interactive user sketching selects a small set of frames whose weighted sum best matches the target image. The system then repeats the lighting used in each of these frames, and constructs a high resolution result from re-photographed basis images. Unlike previous image-based relighting efforts, our method requires only one light source, yet can achieve high resolution light positioning to avoid multiple sharp shadows. A reduced version uses only a hand-held light, and may be suitable for battery-powered, field photography equipment that fits in a backpack.
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@inproceedings{:10.2312/EGWR/EGSR05/165-172,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (2005)},
editor = {Kavita Bala and Philip Dutre},
title = {{Table-top Computed Lighting for Practical Digital Photography}},
author = {Mohan, Ankit and Tumblin, Jack and Bodenheimer, Bobby and Grimm, Cindy and Bailey, Reynold},
year = {2005},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-3463},
ISBN = {3-905673-23-1},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGWR/EGSR05/165-172}
}