Fast Separation of Direct and Global Images Using High Frequency Illumination Shree K. Nayar Gurunandan G. Krishnan Columbia University SIGGRAPH Conference Boston, July 2006 Support: ONR, NSF, MERL Michael D. Grossberg City College of New York Ramesh Raskar MERL
source surface P Direct and Global Illumination A A : Direct B B : Interrelection C C : Subsurface D participating medium D : Volumetric translucent surface E E : Diffusion camera
Related Work (Seitz et. al., ICCV 05) Inverse Light Transport (Sen et. al., Siggraph 05) T Dual Photography
Fast Separation of Direct and Global Images Create Novel Images of the Scene Enhance Brightness Based Vision Methods New Insights into Material Properties
direct global radiance Direct and Global Components: Interreflections surface i camera source j BRDF and geometry
High Frequency Illumination Pattern surface camera source fraction of activated source elements + i
High Frequency Illumination Pattern surface fraction of activated source elements camera source + - i
Separation from Two Images directglobal
Other Global Effects: Subsurface Scattering translucent surface camera source i j
Other Global Effects: Volumetric Scattering surface camera source participating medium i j
Diffuse Interreflections Specular Interreflections Volumetric Scattering Subsurface Scattering Diffusion
Scene
DirectGlobal
Real World Examples: Can You Guess the Images?
Eggs: Diffuse Interreflections DirectGlobal
Wooden Blocks: Specular Interreflections DirectGlobal
Novel Images
Mirror Ball: Failure Case DirectGlobal
Photometric Stereo using Direct Images Bowl Shape Source 1 Source 2 Source 3 Direct Global Nayar et al., 1991
Kitchen Sink: Volumetric Scattering Volumetric Scattering: Chandrasekar 50, Ishimaru 78 DirectGlobal
Novel Image
Peppers: Subsurface Scattering DirectGlobal
Novel Images
Hand DirectGlobal Skin: Hanrahan and Krueger 93, Uchida 96, Haro 01, Jensen et al. 01, Cula and Dana 02, Igarashi et al. 05, Weyrich et al. 05
Face: Without and With Makeup GlobalDirect GlobalDirect Without Makeup With Makeup
Blonde Hair Hair Scattering: Stamm et al. 77, Bustard and Smith 91, Lu et al. 00 Marschner et al. 03 DirectGlobal
Variants of Separation Method Shadow of Line Occluder Shadow of Mesh Occluders Coded Structured Light Shifted Sinusoids
Summary Fast and Simple Separation Method Wide Variety of Global Effects No Prior Knowledge of Material Properties Implications: Generation of Novel Images Enhance Computer Vision Methods Insights into Properties of Materials