Illumination Decomposition for Photograph With Multiple Light Sources

Illumination decomposition for a single photograph is an important and challenging problem in image editing operation. In this paper, we present a novel coarse-to-fine strategy to perform illumination decomposition for photograph with multiple light sources. We first reconstruct the lighting environ...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on image processing 2017-09, Vol.26 (9), p.4114-4127
Main Authors: Zhang, Ling, Yan, Qingan, Liu, Zheng, Zou, Hua, Xiao, Chunxia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Estimation
Geometry
Illumination cues
illumination decomposition
Image color analysis
Image decomposition
Image reconstruction
Light sources
Lighting
multiple light sources
shadows
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Summary:Illumination decomposition for a single photograph is an important and challenging problem in image editing operation. In this paper, we present a novel coarse-to-fine strategy to perform illumination decomposition for photograph with multiple light sources. We first reconstruct the lighting environment of the image using the estimated geometry structure of the scene. With the position of lights, we detect the shadow regions as well as the highlights in the projected image for each light. Then, using the illumination cues from shadows, we estimate the coarse illumination decomposed image emitted by each light source. Finally, we present a light-aware illumination optimization model, which efficiently produces the finer illumination decomposition results, as well as recover the texture detail under the shadow. We validate our approach on a number of examples, and our method effectively decomposes the input image into multiple components corresponding to different light sources.
ISSN:1057-7149
1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2017.2712283