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UIUC research: Render Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs

Because Adobe can’t be the only mad scientists of media manipulation, a group of PhD students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have devised a method to realistically insert synthetic (read: fake) objects into a photograph with “proper perspective, occlusion, and re-lit with an estimated lighting model of the scene’s illumination.”

Because Adobe can’t be the only mad scientists of media manipulation, a group of PhD students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have devised a method to realistically insert synthetic (read: fake) objects into a photograph with “proper perspective, occlusion, and re-lit with an estimated lighting model of the scene’s illumination.”

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