Publications

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Casual Indoor HDR Radiance Capture from Omnidirectional Images
3rd OmniCV Workshop: Omnidirectional Computer Vision in Research and Industry, CVPR-W 2022
Pulkit Gera, Mohammed Reza Karimi Dastjerdi,Charles Renaud, P.J Narayanan, Jean-François Lalonde

We present PanoHDR-NeRF, a novel pipeline to casually capture a plausible full HDR radiance field of a large indoor scene without any elaborate setups or complex capture protocols. AN LDR2HDR network is trained to recover HDR light probes from casually captured omnidirectional LDR frames. It is then used to train PanoHDR-NeRF. Our pipeline can estimate full HDR panoramas from any location of the scene and can synthesize correct lighting effects which enable augmentation of indoor scenes with synthetic objects.

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Neural View Synthesis and Appearance Editing from Unstructured Images
Indian Conference on Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP) 2021
Pulkit Gera, Aakash.KT, Dhawal Sirikonda, P.J Narayanan

We present a neural rendering framework for simultaneous view synthesis and appearance editing of a scene with known environmental illumination captured using a mobile camera. Our approach explicitly disentangles the appearance and learns a lighting representation that is independent of it. We show results of editing the appearance of real scenes in interesting and non-trivial ways.