A novel relighting algorithm has been developed that uses a compact
representation of a large set of images of the scene that correspond
to different lighting conditions. Unlike previous relighting
algorithms, this one exploits not only image correlations over the
illumination dimensions but also coherences over the spatial
dimensions of the image. This enables the algorithm to achieve high
quality relighting in real time. It can render 640x480 images of
scenes under complex and varying illuminations at 15 frames per second
using a 2GHz processor. This algorithm was used to develop a Lighting
Sensitive Display that can render a 3D scene such that it always
appears to be lit by the real environment that the display resides in.
The relighting algorithm has been re-implemented and made publicly
available by Sebastian Enrique and Ravi Ramamoorthi of Columbia's
Computer Graphics Laboratory. It can be downloaded from here. |