Capturing Relightable Human Performances under General Uncontrolled Illumination
Guannan Li, Chenglei Wu, Carsten Stoll, Yebin Liu, Kiran Varanasi, Qionghai Dai, Christian Theobalt
In Computer Graphics Forum, 32(2pt3), 2013.
Abstract: We present a novel approach to create relightable free-viewpoint human performances from multi-view video recorded under general uncontrolled and uncalibated illumination. We first capture a multi-view sequence of an actor wearing arbitrary apparel and reconstruct a spatio-temporal coherent coarse 3D model of the performance using a marker-less tracking approach. Using these coarse reconstructions, we estimate the low-frequency component of the illumination in a spherical harmonics (SH) basis as well as the diffuse reflectance, and then utilize them to estimate the dynamic geometry detail of human actors based on shading cues. Given the high-quality time-varying geometry, the estimated illumination is extended to the all-frequency domain by re-estimating it in the wavelet basis. Finally, the high-quality all-frequency illumination is utilized to reconstruct the spatially-varying BRDF of the surface. The recovered time-varying surface geometry and spatially-varying non-Lambertian reflectance allow us to generate high-quality model-based free view-point videos of the actor under novel illumination conditions. Our method enables plausible reconstruction of relightable dynamic scene models without a complex controlled lighting apparatus, and opens up a path towards relightable performance capture in less constrained environments and using less complex acquisition setups.
Article URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12047
BibTeX format:
@article{Li:2013:CRH,
  author = {Guannan Li and Chenglei Wu and Carsten Stoll and Yebin Liu and Kiran Varanasi and Qionghai Dai and Christian Theobalt},
  title = {Capturing Relightable Human Performances under General Uncontrolled Illumination},
  journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
  volume = {32},
  number = {2pt3},
  pages = {275--284},
  year = {2013},
}
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