Image-based lighting adjustment method for browsing object images

Author

Shingu, Jun ; Uchihashi, Shingo ; Abe, Tsutomu ; Iyoda, Tetsuo ; Kimber, Don ; Rieffel, Eleanor ; Vaughan, Jim

Author_Institution

FX Palo Alto Lab., Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 3 2009

Firstpage

998

Lastpage

1001

Abstract

In this paper, we describe an automatic lighting adjustment method for browsing object images. From a set of images of an object, taken under different lighting conditions, we generate two types of illuminated images: a textural image which eliminates unwanted specular reflections of the object, and a highlight image in which specularities of the object are highly preserved. Our user interface allows viewers to digitally zoom into any region of the image, and the lighting adjusted images are automatically generated for the selected region and displayed. Switching between the textural and the highlight images helps viewers to understand characteristics of the object surface.

Keywords

image texture; lighting; user interfaces; digital images quality; image texture; image-based lighting adjustment method; object image browsing; object surface; unwanted specular reflection elimination; user interface; Cameras; Color; Digital images; Entropy; Image generation; Laboratories; Optical reflection; Rendering (computer graphics); Surface texture; User interfaces; Image-based Relighting; Image-based Rendering; Lighting Adjustment; Object Image Browsing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2009. ICME 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1945-7871

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4290-4

Electronic_ISBN

1945-7871

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2009.5202665

Filename

5202665