We introduce an in-situ lighting and reflectance estimation method that does
not require specific light probes and/or preliminary scanning. Our method
uses images taken from multiple viewpoints while data accumulation and
lighting and reflectance estimations run in the background of the primary AR
system. As a result, our method requires little in the way of manipulations
for image collection because it consists primarily of image processing and
optimization. When used, lighting directions and initial optimization values
are estimated via image processing. Eventually, the full parameters are
obtained by optimization of the differences between real images. This system
uses current best parameters because the parameter estimation and input image
updates are run independently.
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