{"id":15360,"date":"2021-08-29T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T20:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15360"},"modified":"2024-10-24T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T22:13:24","slug":"how-googles-new-total-relighting-tech-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/29\/how-googles-new-total-relighting-tech-works\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google&#8217;s new &#8220;Total Relighting&#8221; tech works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/10\/total-relighting-promises-to-teleportrait-you-into-new-vistas\/\">mentioned<\/a> back in May,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>You might remember the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/02\/interactive-portrait-light-comes-to-google-photos-on-pixel-editor-gets-upgraded\/\">portrait relighting features<\/a>\u00a0that launched on Google Pixel devices last year, leveraging some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/03\/awesome-new-portrait-lighting-tech-from-google\/\">earlier research<\/a>. Now a number of my former Google colleagues have created\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/augmentedperception.github.io\/total_relighting\/\">a new method<\/a>\u00a0for figuring out how a portrait is lit, then imposing new light sources in order to help it blend into new environments. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Two-Minute Papers has put together a nice, accessible summary of how it works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/SEsYo9L5lOo\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Relighting-1024x468.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned back in May, You might remember the\u00a0portrait relighting features\u00a0that launched on Google Pixel devices last year, leveraging some\u00a0earlier research. Now a number of my former Google colleagues have created\u00a0a new method\u00a0for figuring out how a portrait is lit, then imposing new light sources in order to help it blend into new environments. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,3,75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15360"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18568,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15360\/revisions\/18568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}