This demo allows you to virtually relight real faces. You can light the subject as
if they were in a variety of real
lighting environments captured from around the world, or position and adjust
your own virtual lights to achieve whatever effect you desire.
Different subjects are selected by clicking on the thumbnails at the left (additional
face datasets may be downloaded individually; see below). Clicking on Environments at
the upper right displays a choice of several different environments. The current lighting
environment is displayed in a low-resolution panoramic image below the face. Clicking on
the yellow arrows to the right or left of this image will make the environment spin
continuously around the subject.
Clicking on Lights at the upper right displays a reference sphere and three virtual lights.
These lights may be moved by dragging them around the sphere. When a light is selected
(yellow), you may adjust its brightness, color, and diffusion using the controls at bottom
right. The panoramic image below the face shows the cumulative lighting environment due to
the three virtual lights.
The program computes a weighted sum of 512 images, each capturing the appearance of the face
when illuminated from a particular direction. The relighting computation is performed in
real-time directly on the discrete cosine transform coefficients of the data compressed in
lighting-direction space. For more information, please see the
corresponding
research paper and website.
To run the demo you will need an OpenGL graphics card.
Download and unzip the demo into a directory, then run face.exe (Windows) or face (Linux). To add a new face dataset, simply unzip the package (a new subdirectory will be created under faces). We recommend that you not load more than one face dataset per 40MB of RAM in your system.
Windows
Linux x86
Source
Light Stage 1.0 Datasets
For more information on the "George" and "Headdress" datasets, see: Hawkins et al, "
A Photometric Approach to Digitizing Cultural Artifacts", VAST 2001.
