DeLTra: Deep Light Transport for Projector-Camera Systems

In projector-camera systems, light transport models the propagation from projector emitted radiance to camera-captured irradiance. In this paper, we propose the first end-to-end trainable solution named Deep Light Transport (DeLTra) that estimates radiometrically uncalibrated projector-camera light transport. DeLTra is designed to have two modules: DepthToAtrribute and ShadingNet. DepthToAtrribute explicitly learns rays, depth and normal, and then estimates rough Phong illuminations. Afterwards, the CNN-based ShadingNet renders photorealistic camera-captured image using estimated shading attributes and rough Phong illuminations. A particular challenge addressed by DeLTra is occlusion, for which we exploit epipolar constraint and propose a novel differentiable direct light mask. Thus, it can be learned end-to-end along with the other DeLTra modules. Once trained, DeLTra can be applied simultaneously to three projector-camera tasks: image-based relighting, projector compensation and depth/normal reconstruction. In our experiments, DeLTra shows clear advantages over previous arts with promising quality and meanwhile being practically convenient.