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Second option is rather unlikely, given how many unknowns you would be solving against (geometry of the seen, geometry of the not seen, incident light sources,
by mertd 14y ago
Second option is rather unlikely, given how many unknowns you would be solving against (geometry of the seen, geometry of the not seen, incident light sources, camera response curve etc) from comparatively very little data (a continuous signal that is sampled and heavily quantized to just 8 bits per channel).
- stephengillie 14y agoGood point. We could reduce some of those unknowns by getting the original photograph (would have camera data in its metadata), and we could assume at least some of the light sources in the ceiling and through windows.
- mertd 14y agoYes you can limit the problem until we can get something useful out of the other end but it is very very hard. Here is one of the latest works on the topic: "Accidental pinhole and pinspeck cameras: revealing the scene outside the picture" (Torralba & Freeman). http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/publications/shadows.pdf http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/publications/shadows.pd...