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As light travels through a disordered medium such as biological tissues, it undergoes multiple scattering events. This phenomenon is detrimental to in-depth optical microscopy, as it causes a drastic degradation of contrast, resolution and…

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xu Cao , Takafumi Taketomi

We propose a learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) method in scattering media, such as fog or smoke, with a novel cost volume, called the dehazing cost volume. Images captured in scattering media are degraded due to light scattering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Yuki Fujimura , Motoharu Sonogashira , Masaaki Iiyama

Color photometric stereo enables single-shot surface reconstruction, extending conventional photometric stereo that requires multiple images of a static scene under varying illumination to dynamic scenarios. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zonglin Li , Jieji Ren , Shuangfan Zhou , Heng Guo , Jinnuo Zhang , Jiang Zhou , Boxin Shi , Zhanyu Ma , Guoying Gu

The use of 3D and stereo imaging is rapidly increasing. Compression, transmission, and processing could degrade the quality of stereo images. Quality assessment of such images is different than their 2D counterparts. Metrics that represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Maryam Karimi , Najmeh Soltanian , Shadrokh Samavi , Nader Karimi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Kayvan Najarian

The completeness of 3D models is still a challenging problem in multi-view stereo (MVS) due to the unreliable photometric consistency in low-textured areas. Since low-textured areas usually exhibit strong planarity, planar models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Qingshan Xu , Wenbing Tao

Mirror reflections are common in everyday environments and can provide stereo information within a single capture, as the real and reflected virtual views are visible simultaneously. We exploit this property by treating the reflection as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jing Wu , Zirui Wang , Iro Laina , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

This is the first article in a series of three dealing with the exploitation of speckle for imaging purposes. Speckle is the complex interference wave-field produced by a random distribution of un-resolved scatterers. In this paper, we show…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Elsa Giraudat , Flavien Bureau , William Lambert , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

Received signal strength based radio tomographic imaging is a popular device-free indoor localization method which reconstructs the spatial loss field of the environment using measurements from a dense wireless network. Existing methods…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Hüseyin Yiğitler , Riku Jäntti , Ossi Kaltiokallio , Neal Patwari

X-ray computed tomography is a powerful tool for volumetric imaging, but requires the collection of a large number of low-noise projection images, which is often too time consuming, limiting its applicability. In our previous work…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Zhenduo Shang , Thomas Blumensath

Event stereo matching is an emerging technique to estimate depth from neuromorphic cameras; however, events are unlikely to trigger in the absence of motion or the presence of large, untextured regions, making the correspondence problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Luca Bartolomei , Matteo Poggi , Andrea Conti , Stefano Mattoccia

Existing methods for 3D face reconstruction from a few casually captured images employ deep learning based models along with a 3D Morphable Model(3DMM) as face geometry prior. Structure From Motion(SFM), followed by Multi-View Stereo (MVS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Raja Kumar , Jiahao Luo , Alex Pang , James Davis

Inferring the 3D shape of an object from an RGB image has shown impressive results, however, existing methods rely primarily on recognizing the most similar 3D model from the training set to solve the problem. These methods suffer from poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Haozhe Xie , Hongxun Yao , Shangchen Zhou , Shengping Zhang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Wenxiu Sun

Recovering the 3D shape of transparent objects using a small number of unconstrained natural images is an ill-posed problem. Complex light paths induced by refraction and reflection have prevented both traditional and deep multiview stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Zhengqin Li , Yu-Ying Yeh , Manmohan Chandraker

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 proposes a non-computational method of counteracting the effect of image degradation introduced by the diffraction phenomenon in lensless microscopy. All the optical images (whether focused by lenses or not) are diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab Kumar Dutta

Recent state-of-the-art algorithms in photometric stereo rely on neural networks and operate either through prior learning or inverse rendering optimization. Here, we revisit the problem of calibrated photometric stereo by leveraging recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Matéo Ducastel , David Tschumperlé , Yvain Quéau

Imaging through scattering media is a fundamental and pervasive challenge in fields ranging from medical diagnostics to astronomy. A promising strategy to overcome this challenge is wavefront modulation, which induces measurement diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Mingyang Xie , Haiyun Guo , Brandon Y. Feng , Lingbo Jin , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Christopher A. Metzler

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

Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Philipp M Pelz , Hamish G Brown , Jim Ciston , Scott D Findlay , Yaqian Zhang , Mary Scott , Colin Ophus