All images are highly ambiguous, and to perceive 3-D scenes, the human visual system relies on assumptions about what lighting conditions are most probable. Here we show that human observers' assumptions about lighting diffuseness are well matched to the diffuseness of lighting in real-world scenes. We use a novel multidirectional photometer to measure lighting in hundreds of environments, and ...

A simulation algorithm is proposed that predicts the lighting energy performance of manually and automatically controlled electric lighting and blind systems in private and two-person offices. Algorithm inputs are annual profiles of user occupancy and work plane illuminances. These two inputs are combined with probabilistic switching patterns, which have been derived from field data, in order t...

Intelligent lighting systems employ dimmable luminaires, photosensors, and occupancy sensors to adapt to daylight and user presence conditions in indoor environments. By providing the illumination required for users and no more, significant energy savings can be made. The state of the art in these lighting systems currently relies on dedicated communication hardware such as radio networking mod...

The healthcare sector of today has very precise requirement with regard to interior lighting. To fulfill these needs, international standards which specify the strict requirement for each health care facility have come up. Hospital lighting is in particular complex because of the sensitive nature of various patients as well as requirement of high performance from its employees. Hence this makes...

Sensors are increasingly part of our daily lives: motion detection, lighting control, and energy consumption all rely on sensors. Combining this information into, for instance, simple and comprehensive graphs can be quite challenging. Dimensionality reduction is often used to address this problem, by decreasing the number of variables in the data and looking for shorter representations. However...

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Augmented Reality (AR) uses a combination of hardware and software to enhance a person's vision of the world with useful information about his/her surroundings. In recent years, there have been many different implementations of Augmented Reality. The vast majority of these implementations have assumed that lighting conditions are static, usually in an indoor or outdoor environment. Unfortunatel...

Lighting design plays a crucial role in indoor lighting design, computer cinematograph and many other applications. Computer-assisted lighting design aims to find a lighting configuration that best approximates the illumination effect specified by designers. In this paper, we present an automatic approach for lighting design, in which discrete and continuous optimization of the lighting configu...