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Recently, 3D face reconstruction from a single image has achieved great success with the help of deep learning and shape prior knowledge, but they often fail to produce accurate geometry details. On the other hand, photometric stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xueying Wang , Yudong Guo , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

In this work we propose a novel, highly practical, binocular photometric stereo (PS) framework, which has same acquisition speed as single view PS, however significantly improves the quality of the estimated geometry. As in recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

This paper introduces single-image geometric and appearance reconstruction from water reflection photography, i.e., images capturing direct and water-reflected real-world scenes. Water reflection offers an additional viewpoint to the direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Ryo Kawahara , Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

Photometric stereo is a method for estimating the normal vectors of an object from images of the object under varying lighting conditions. Motivated by several recent works that extend photometric stereo to more general objects and lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Andrew J. Wagenmaker , Brian E. Moore , Raj Rao Nadakuditi

We propose a method for estimating high-definition spatially-varying lighting, reflectance, and geometry of a scene from 360$^{\circ}$ stereo images. Our model takes advantage of the 360$^{\circ}$ input to observe the entire scene with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li , Yasuyuki Matsushita

We propose PRM, a novel photometric stereo based large reconstruction model to reconstruct high-quality meshes with fine-grained local details. Unlike previous large reconstruction models that prepare images under fixed and simple lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Wenhang Ge , Jiantao Lin , Guibao Shen , Jiawei Feng , Tao Hu , Xinli Xu , Ying-Cong Chen

This paper presents a simple and effective solution to the longstanding classical multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) problem. It is well-known that photometric stereo (PS) is excellent at recovering high-frequency surface details, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

This paper presents a near-light photometric stereo method that faithfully preserves sharp depth edges in the 3D reconstruction. Unlike previous methods that rely on finite differentiation for approximating depth partial derivatives and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Heng Guo , Hiroaki Santo , Boxin Shi , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Highly accurate 3D volumetric reconstruction is still an open research topic where the main difficulty is usually related to merging some rough estimations with high frequency details. One of the most promising methods is the fusion between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Fotios Logothetis , Roberto Mecca , Roberto Cipolla

Generating a stereophonic presentation from a monophonic audio signal is a challenging open task, especially if the goal is to obtain a realistic spatial imaging with a specific panning of sound elements. In this work, we propose to convert…

Traditional multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) methods are often composed of multiple disjoint stages, resulting in noticeable accumulated errors. In this paper, we present a neural inverse rendering method for MVPS based on implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Wenqi Yang , Guanying Chen , Chaofeng Chen , Zhenfang Chen , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

We achieved three-dimensional (3D) computational ghost imaging with multiple photoresistors serving as single-pixel detectors using semi-calibrated lighting approach. We performed imaging in the spatial frequency domain by having each…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-30 Ritz Ann Aguilar , Nathaniel Hermosa , Maricor Soriano

Photometric stereo provides an important method for high-fidelity 3D reconstruction based on multiple intensity images captured under different illumination directions. In this paper, we present a complete framework, including a multilight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yanlong Cao , Binjie Ding , Zewei He , Jiangxin Yang , Jingxi Chen , Yanpeng Cao , Xin Li

Most conventional photometric stereo algorithms inversely solve a BRDF-based image formation model. However, the actual imaging process is often far more complex due to the global light transport on the non-convex surfaces. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Satoshi Ikehata

This paper introduces a versatile paradigm for integrating multi-view reflectance (optional) and normal maps acquired through photometric stereo. Our approach employs a pixel-wise joint re-parameterization of reflectance and normal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Baptiste Brument , Robin Bruneau , Yvain Quéau , Jean Mélou , François Bernard Lauze , Jean-Denis , Jean-Denis Durou , Lilian Calvet

Active stereo cameras that recover depth from structured light captures have become a cornerstone sensor modality for 3D scene reconstruction and understanding tasks across application domains. Existing active stereo cameras project a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Seung-Hwan Baek , Felix Heide

We propose Stereo Direct Sparse Odometry (Stereo DSO) as a novel method for highly accurate real-time visual odometry estimation of large-scale environments from stereo cameras. It jointly optimizes for all the model parameters within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Rui Wang , Martin Schwörer , Daniel Cremers

We present a novel framework to learn to convert the perpixel photometric information at each view into spatially distinctive and view-invariant low-level features, which can be plugged into existing multi-view stereo pipeline for enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Kaizhang Kang , Cihui Xie , Ruisheng Zhu , Xiaohe Ma , Ping Tan , Hongzhi Wu , Kun Zhou

Multi-View Photometric Stereo (MVPS) is a popular method for fine-detailed 3D acquisition of an object from images. Despite its outstanding results on diverse material objects, a typical MVPS experimental setup requires a well-calibrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Suryansh Kumar

We conduct a thorough study of photometric stereo under nearby point light source illumination, from modeling to numerical solution, through calibration. In the classical formulation of photometric stereo, the luminous fluxes are assumed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yvain Quéau , Bastien Durix , Tao Wu , Daniel Cremers , François Lauze , Jean-Denis Durou