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Accurate and fast 3D imaging of specular surfaces still poses major challenges for state-of-the-art optical measurement principles. Frequently used methods, such as phase-measuring deflectometry (PMD) or shape-from-polarization (SfP), rely…

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Accurately measuring the geometry and spatially-varying reflectance of real-world objects is a complex task due to their intricate shapes formed by concave features, hollow engravings and diverse surfaces, resulting in inter-reflection and…

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Uncalibrated photometric stereo is proposed to estimate the detailed surface normal from images under varying and unknown lightings. Recently, deep learning brings powerful data priors to this underdetermined problem. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Fangzhou Gao , Meng Wang , Lianghao Zhang , Li Wang , Jiawan Zhang

This paper is concerned with polarimetric dense map reconstruction based on a polarization camera with the help of relative depth information as a prior. In general, polarization imaging is able to reveal information about surface normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Moein Shakeri , Shing Yan Loo , Hong Zhang

A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

Uncalibrated photometric stereo aims at estimating the 3D-shape of a surface, given a set of images captured from the same viewing angle, but under unknown, varying illumination. While the theoretical foundations of this inverse problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Mohammed Brahimi , Yvain Quéau , Bjoern Haefner , Daniel Cremers

A polarization camera can capture four linear polarized images with different polarizer angles in a single shot, which is useful in polarization-based vision applications since the degree of linear polarization (DoLP) and the angle of…

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In this work, we propose a novel method for the detailed reconstruction of transparent objects by exploiting polarimetric cues. Most of the existing methods usually lack sufficient constraints and suffer from the over-smooth problem. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Mingqi Shao , Chongkun Xia , Dongxu Duan , Xueqian Wang

Photometric stereo (PS) techniques nowadays remain constrained to an ideal laboratory setup where modeling and calibration of lighting is amenable. To eliminate such restrictions, we propose an efficient principled variational approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Bjoern Haefner , Zhenzhang Ye , Maolin Gao , Tao Wu , Yvain Quéau , Daniel Cremers

Virtual try-on and product personalization have become increasingly important in modern online shopping, highlighting the need for accurate body measurement estimation. Although previous research has advanced in estimating 3D body shapes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yafei Mao , Xuelu Li , Brandon Smith , Jinjin Li , Raja Bala

A deep neural networks based method is proposed to convert single polarization grayscale SAR image to fully polarimetric. It consists of two components: a feature extractor network to extract hierarchical multi-scale spatial features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Qian Song , Feng Xu , Ya-Qiu Jin

This paper proposes a regularized pairwise difference approach for estimating the linear component coefficient in a partially linear model, with consistency and exact rates of convergence obtained in high dimensions under mild scaling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Fang Han , Zhao Ren , Yuxin Zhu

Many different methods exist for reducing data obtained when an astronomical source is studied with a two-channel polarimeter, such as a Wollaston prism system. This paper presents a rigorous method of reducing the data from raw aperture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Leyshon

Photometric Stereo methods seek to reconstruct the 3d shape of an object from motionless images obtained with varying illumination. Most existing methods solve a restricted problem where the physical reflectance model, such as Lambertian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Ofer Bartal , Nati Ofir , Yaron Lipman , Ronen Basri

This paper is concerned with specular reflection removal based on tensor low-rank decomposition framework with the help of polarization information. Our method is motivated by the observation that the specular highlight of an image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Moein Shakeri , Hong Zhang

Linear (spectro) polarimetry is usually performed using separate photon flux measurements after spatial or temporal polarization modulation. Such classical polarimeters are limited in sensitivity and accuracy by systematic effects and…

Optics · Physics 2010-05-28 Frans Snik , Theodora Karalidi , Christoph U. Keller

We propose a new technique for estimating spatially varying parametric materials from a single image of an object with unknown shape in unknown illumination. Our method uses a low-order parametric reflectance model, and incorporates strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Kevin Karsch , David Forsyth

Image segmentation is a fundamental and challenging task in image processing and computer vision. The color image segmentation is attracting more attention due to the color image provides more information than the gray image. In this paper,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Tingting Wu , Xiaoyu Gu , Jinbo Shao , Ruoxuan Zhou , Zhi Li

We present a procedure to reconstruct objects from holograms recorded in in-line holography settings. Working with one beam of polarized light, the topological derivatives and energies of functionals quantifying hologram deviations yield…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-09 A. Carpio , T. G. Dimiduk , V. Selgas , P. Vidal