Abhimitra Meka1    Michael Zollhöfer1    Christian Richardt1,2    Christian Theobalt1

1 MPI Informatik       2 Intel Visual Computing Institute

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2016)


Abstract

Intrinsic video decomposition refers to the fundamentally ambiguous task of separating a video stream into its constituent layers, in particular reflectance and shading layers. Such a decomposition is the basis for a variety of video manipulation applications, such as realistic recoloring or retexturing of objects. We present a novel variational approach to tackle this underconstrained inverse problem at real-time frame rates, which enables on-line processing of live video footage. The problem of finding the intrinsic decomposition is formulated as a mixed variational l2–lp optimization problem based on an objective function that is specifically tailored for fast optimization. To this end, we propose a novel combination of sophisticated local spatial and global spatio-temporal priors resulting in temporally coherent decompositions at real-time frame rates without the need for explicit correspondence search. We tackle the resulting high-dimensional, non-convex optimization problem via a novel data-parallel iteratively reweighted least squares solver that runs on commodity graphics hardware. Real-time performance is obtained by combining a local-global solution strategy with hierarchical coarse-to-fine optimization. Compelling real-time augmented reality applications, such as recoloring, material editing and retexturing, are demonstrated in a live setup. Our qualitative and quantitative evaluation shows that we obtain high-quality real-time decompositions even for challenging sequences. Our method is able to outperform state-of-the-art approaches in terms of runtime and result quality – even without user guidance such as scribbles.

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Bibtex

@article{LiveIntrinsicVideo,
  author    = {Abhimitra Meka and Michael Zollh{\"o}fer and Christian Richardt and Christian Theobalt},
  title     = {Live Intrinsic Video},
  journal   = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH)},
  year      = {2016},
  month     = {July},
  volume    = {35},
  number    = {4},
  pages     = {109:1--14},
  doi       = {10.1145/2897824.2925907},
  url       = {http://richardt.name/live-intrinsic-video/},
}