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Neural Multi-View Self-Calibrated Photometric Stereo without Photometric Stereo Cues

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-08-01 v1

Abstract

We propose a neural inverse rendering approach that jointly reconstructs geometry, spatially varying reflectance, and lighting conditions from multi-view images captured under varying directional lighting. Unlike prior multi-view photometric stereo methods that require light calibration or intermediate cues such as per-view normal maps, our method jointly optimizes all scene parameters from raw images in a single stage. We represent both geometry and reflectance as neural implicit fields and apply shadow-aware volume rendering. A spatial network first predicts the signed distance and a reflectance latent code for each scene point. A reflectance network then estimates reflectance values conditioned on the latent code and angularly encoded surface normal, view, and light directions. The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art normal-guided approaches in shape and lighting estimation accuracy, generalizes to view-unaligned multi-light images, and handles objects with challenging geometry and reflectance.

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@article{arxiv.2507.23162,
  title  = {Neural Multi-View Self-Calibrated Photometric Stereo without Photometric Stereo Cues},
  author = {Xu Cao and Takafumi Taketomi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.23162},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted to ICCV 2025