Faces as Lighting Probes via Unsupervised Deep Highlight Extraction · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1803.06340/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTFaces as Lighting Probes via Unsupervised Deep Highlight Extraction — mentioned by rotruxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19687423urn:hackerpapers:mention:1803.06340:19687423Wed, 17 Apr 2019 23:46:57 GMT<p>This is absurd. First of all, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.06340.pdf which opens with the intimidating quote: &quot;Spicing up selfies by inserting virtual hats, sunglasses or toys has become easy to do with mobile augmented reality (AR) apps like Snapchat&quot; Second of all, most universities in China are affiliated with the government; this one just has a snappier name. It would also appear the two individuals in question are grad students at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Third, MS has been and will continue to catch uneducated &amp; poorly-researched flak like this for operating in China in any…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1803.06340/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CV