EnvyDepth: An Interface for Recovering Local Natural Illumination from Environment Maps

dc.contributor.authorBanterle, Francescoen_US
dc.contributor.authorCallieri, Marcoen_US
dc.contributor.authorDellepiane, Matteoen_US
dc.contributor.authorCorsini, Massimilianoen_US
dc.contributor.authorPellacini, Fabioen_US
dc.contributor.authorScopigno, Robertoen_US
dc.contributor.editorB. Levy, X. Tong, and K. Yinen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T16:13:08Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T16:13:08Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we present EnvyDepth, an interface for recovering local illumination from a single HDR environment map. In EnvyDepth, the user quickly indicates strokes to mark regions of the environment map that should be grouped together in a single geometric primitive. From these annotated strokes, EnvyDepth uses edit propagation to create a detailed collection of virtual point lights that reproduce both the local and the distant lighting effects in the original scene. When compared to the sole use of the distant illumination, the added spatial information better reproduces a variety of local effects such as shadows, highlights and caustics. Without the effort needed to create precise scene reconstructions, EnvyDepth annotations take only tens of seconds to produce a plausible lighting without visible artifacts. This is easy to obtain even in the case of complex scenes, both indoors and outdoors. The generated lighting environments work well in a production pipeline since they are efficient to use and able to produce accurate renderings.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12249en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectImageen_US
dc.subjectBased Lightingen_US
dc.subjectReflectance and Shadingen_US
dc.subjectComputer Graphics [I.3.7]en_US
dc.subjectThree Dimensional Graphics and Realismen_US
dc.titleEnvyDepth: An Interface for Recovering Local Natural Illumination from Environment Mapsen_US
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