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Editable Indoor Lighting Estimation

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We present a method for estimating lighting from a single perspective image of an indoor scene. Previous methods for predicting indoor illumination usually focus on either simple, parametric lighting that lack realism, or on richer representations that are difficult or even impossible to understand or modify after prediction. We propose a pipeline that estimates a parametric light that is easy to edit and allows renderings with strong shadows, alongside with a non-parametric texture with high-frequency information necessary for realistic rendering of specular objects. Once estimated, the predictions obtained with our model are interpretable and can easily be modified by an artist/user with a few mouse clicks. Quantitative and qualitative results show that our approach makes indoor lighting estimation easier to handle by a casual user, while still producing competitive results.

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Notes

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    See https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/the-definitive-weta-digital-guide-to-ibl/.

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    Available within Blender at https://www.blender.org.

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    Implementation taken from https://pypi.org/project/pytorch-fid/.

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This research was supported by MITACS and the NSERC grant RGPIN-2020-04799. The authors thank Pascal Audet for his help.

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Weber, H., Garon, M., Lalonde, JF. (2022). Editable Indoor Lighting Estimation. In: Avidan, S., Brostow, G., Cissé, M., Farinella, G.M., Hassner, T. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2022. ECCV 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13666. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20068-7_39

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