A Practical Inverse Rendering Strategy for Enhanced Albedo Estimation for Cultural Heritage Model Reconstruction
Ruggero Pintus, Antonio Zorcolo, Alberto Jaspe-Villanueva, and Enrico Gobbetti
September 2025
Abstract
We present a practical single-image framework to address uncontrolled global and local illumination effects in flash photography for improved albedo estimation and color projection onto 3D cultural heritage models. Our approach leverages an inverse rendering pipeline to process a single registered flash photograph and models ambient illumination due to environmental reflections and local interreflections. By compensating for direct and indirect light contributions, we recover a more reliable albedo signal for color projection onto the 3D model. We validate our method through extensive evaluations on two synthetic datasets and real-world acquisitions in conservation and museum settings, demonstrating its effectiveness in improving photometric accuracy and support for relighting, and proper integration of optimized color data into existing 3D models.
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Ruggero Pintus, Antonio Zorcolo, Alberto Jaspe-Villanueva, and Enrico Gobbetti. A Practical Inverse Rendering Strategy for Enhanced Albedo Estimation for Cultural Heritage Model Reconstruction. In Proc. Digital Heritage, September 2025. To appear.
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@inproceedings{Pintus:2025:PIR, author = {Ruggero Pintus and Antonio Zorcolo and Alberto Jaspe-Villanueva and Enrico Gobbetti}, title = {A Practical Inverse Rendering Strategy for Enhanced Albedo Estimation for Cultural Heritage Model Reconstruction}, booktitle = {Proc. Digital Heritage}, month = {September}, year = {2025}, abstract = { We present a practical single-image framework to address uncontrolled global and local illumination effects in flash photography for improved albedo estimation and color projection onto 3D cultural heritage models. Our approach leverages an inverse rendering pipeline to process a single registered flash photograph and models ambient illumination due to environmental reflections and local interreflections. By compensating for direct and indirect light contributions, we recover a more reliable albedo signal for color projection onto the 3D model. We validate our method through extensive evaluations on two synthetic datasets and real-world acquisitions in conservation and museum settings, demonstrating its effectiveness in improving photometric accuracy and support for relighting, and proper integration of optimized color data into existing 3D models. }, note = {To appear}, url = {http://vic.crs4.it/vic/cgi-bin/bib-page.cgi?id='Pintus:2025:PIR'}, }
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