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We present a novel convolutional neural network architecture for photometric stereo (Woodham, 1980), a problem of recovering 3D object surface normals from multiple images observed under varying illuminations. Despite its long history in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Tatsunori Taniai , Takanori Maehara

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

Photometric stereo (PS) endeavors to ascertain surface normals using shading clues from photometric images under various illuminations. Recent deep learning-based PS methods often overlook the complexity of object surfaces. These neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kaixuan Wang , Lin Qi , Shiyu Qin , Kai Luo , Yakun Ju , Xia Li , Junyu Dong

We introduce the first end-to-end learning-based solution to near-field Photometric Stereo (PS), where the light sources are close to the object of interest. This setup is especially useful for reconstructing large immobile objects. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Daniel Lichy , Soumyadip Sengupta , David W. Jacobs

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 an accurate and lightweight convolutional neural network for stereo estimation with depth completion. We name this method fully-convolutional deformable similarity network with depth completion (FCDSN-DC). This method extends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Dominik Hirner , Friedrich Fraundorfer

Recent deep monocular depth estimation approaches based on supervised regression have achieved remarkable performance. However, they require costly ground truth annotations during training. To cope with this issue, in this paper we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Andrea Pilzer , Stéphane Lathuilière , Dan Xu , Mihai Marian Puscas , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

Fourier ptychography (FP) is a newly developed computational imaging approach that achieves both high resolution and wide field of view by stitching a series of low-resolution images captured under angle-varied illumination. So far, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Yongbing Zhang , Yangzhe Liu , Xiu Li , Shaowei Jiang , Krishna Dixit , Xinfeng Zhang , Xiangyang Ji

Salient object detection, which aims to identify and locate the most salient pixels or regions in images, has been attracting more and more interest due to its various real-world applications. However, this vision task is quite challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Photometric stereo is a technique for estimating surface normals using images captured under varying illumination. However, conventional frame-based photometric stereo methods are limited in real-world applications due to their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hyunwoo Kim , Won-Hoe Kim , Sanghoon Lee , Jianfei Cai , Giljoo Nam , Jae-Sang Hyun

We present a fully convolutional network(FCN) based approach for color image restoration. FCNs have recently shown remarkable performance for high-level vision problem like semantic segmentation. In this paper, we investigate if FCN models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Subhajit Chaudhury , Hiya Roy

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

Rectifying the orientation of images represents a daily task for every photographer. This task may be complicated even for the human eye, especially when the horizon or other horizontal and vertical lines in the image are missing. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Ionut Mironica , Andrei Zugravu

Optical microscopy is an essential tool in biology and medicine. Imaging thin, yet non-flat objects in a single shot (without relying on more sophisticated sectioning setups) remains challenging as the shallow depth of field that comes with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-14 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

Fourier ptychography microscopy(FP) is a recently developed computational imaging approach for microscopic super-resolution imaging. By turning on each light-emitting-diode (LED) located on different position on the LED array sequentially…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-22 Delong Yang , Shaohui Zhang , Chuanjian Zheng , Guocheng Zhou , Lei Cao , Yao Hu , Qun Hao

Multispectral photometric stereo(MPS) aims at recovering the surface normal of a scene from a single-shot multispectral image captured under multispectral illuminations. Existing MPS methods adopt the Lambertian reflectance model to make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jipeng Lv , Heng Guo , Guanying Chen , Jinxiu Liang , Boxin Shi

We present region-based, fully convolutional networks for accurate and efficient object detection. In contrast to previous region-based detectors such as Fast/Faster R-CNN that apply a costly per-region subnetwork hundreds of times, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jifeng Dai , Yi Li , Kaiming He , Jian Sun

Photometric stereo is a technique aimed at determining surface normals through the utilization of shading cues derived from images taken under different lighting conditions. However, existing learning-based approaches often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shiyu Qin , Zhihao Cai , Kaixuan Wang , Lin Qi , Junyu Dong

In this paper, we propose a fully convolutional networks for iterative non-blind deconvolution We decompose the non-blind deconvolution problem into image denoising and image deconvolution. We train a FCNN to remove noises in the gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Jiawei Zhang , Jinshan Pan , Wei-Sheng Lai , Rynson Lau , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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