Multiview Intrinsic Images of Outdoors Scenes with an Application to Relighting

Abstract

We introduce a method to compute intrinsic images for a multi-view set of outdoor photos with cast shadows, taken under the same lighting. We use an automatic 3D reconstruction from these photos and the sun direction as input and decompose each image into reflectance and shading layers, despite the inaccuracies and missing data of the 3D model. Our approach is based on two key ideas. First, we progressively improve the accuracy of the parameters of our image formation model by performing iterative estimation and combining 3D lighting simulation with 2D image optimization methods. Second we use the image formation model to express reflectance as a function of discrete visibility values for shadow and light, which allows us to introduce a robust visibility classifier for pairs of points in a scene. This classifier is used for shadow labelling, allowing us to compute high quality reflectance and shading layers. Our multi-view intrinsic decomposition is of sufficient quality to allow relighting of the input images. We create shadow-caster geometry which preserves shadow silhouettes and using the intrinsic layers, we can perform multi-view relighting with moving cast shadows. We present results on several multi-view datasets, and show how it is now possible to perform image-based rendering with changing illumination conditions.

Light Field Image Processing: An Overview

“…As opposed to other multidimensional intrinsic decomposition methods (e.g. [209], [210]), they leveraged the coherence and structure of the light field.…”

Intrinsic Light Field Images

“…Assuming outdoor environments, the work of Duchene et al . [DRC*15] estimates sunlight position and orientation and reconstructs a 3D model of the scene, taking as input several captures of the same scene under constant illumination. Although a light field can be seen as a structured collection of images, we do not make assumptions about the lighting nor the scale of the captured scene.…”

Light Source Estimation in Synthetic Images

“…color devoid of any shading information) with the 3D geometry. The problem of separating albedos and shading information found in images, often referred to as intrinsic image decomposition, is the subject of a rich field of ongoing research [2][3][4]; to obviate this challenge we assume albedo associations are known, although this knowledge need not be perfect accurate. Utilizing synthetic data allows us to both modulate the accuracy of the albedo map as well as address correcting it within our framework, as a topic of future work.…”