Computer Graphics

University of California - Berkeley

Modeling Illumination Variation with Spherical Harmonics


Abstract

The appearance of objects including human faces can vary dramatically with the lighting. We present results that use spherical harmonic illumination basis functions to understand this variation for face modeling and recognition, as well as a number of other applications in graphics and vision.

Citation

Ravi Ramamoorthi. "Modeling Illumination Variation with Spherical Harmonics". In Face Processing: Advanced Modeling Methods, pages 385–424. 2006.