RGB2AO: Ambient Occlusion Generation from RGB Images

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2020
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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We present RGB2AO, a novel task to generate ambient occlusion (AO) from a single RGB image instead of screen space buffers such as depth and normal. RGB2AO produces a new image filter that creates a non-directional shading effect that darkens enclosed and sheltered areas. RGB2AO aims to enhance two 2D image editing applications: image composition and geometryaware contrast enhancement. We first collect a synthetic dataset consisting of pairs of RGB images and AO maps. Subsequently, we propose a model for RGB2AO by supervised learning of a convolutional neural network (CNN), considering 3D geometry of the input image. Experimental results quantitatively and qualitatively demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.
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@article{
10.1111:cgf.13943
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
RGB2AO: Ambient Occlusion Generation from RGB Images
}}, author = {
Inoue, Naoto
and
Ito, Daichi
and
Hold-Geoffroy, Yannick
and
Mai, Long
and
Price, Brian
and
Yamasaki, Toshihiko
}, year = {
2020
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
}, ISSN = {
1467-8659
}, DOI = {
10.1111/cgf.13943
} }
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