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We propose to tackle the multiview photometric stereo problem using an extension of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), conditioned on light source direction. The geometric part of our neural representation predicts surface normal direction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Meghna Asthana , William A. P. Smith , Patrik Huber

In this paper, a novel inverse tone mapping method using a convolutional neural network (CNN) with LDR based learning is proposed. In conventional inverse tone mapping with CNNs, generated HDR images cannot have absolute luminance, although…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-05 Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Photometric stereo (PS) is a fundamental technique in computer vision known to produce 3-D shape with high accuracy. The setting of PS is defined by using several input images of a static scene taken from one and the same camera position…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Maryam Khanian , Ali Sharifi Boroujerdi , Michael Breuß

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

Photometric Stereo (PS) under outdoor illumination remains a challenging, ill-posed problem due to insufficient variability in illumination. Months-long capture sessions are typically used in this setup, with little success on shorter,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Paulo F. U. Gotardo , Jean-François Lalonde

Retrieving accurate 3D reconstructions of objects from the way they reflect light is a very challenging task in computer vision. Despite more than four decades since the definition of the Photometric Stereo problem, most of the literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Mecca , Roberto Cipolla

Recent developments established deep learning as an inevitable tool to boost the performance of dense matching and stereo estimation. On the downside, learning these networks requires a substantial amount of training data to be successful.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Patrick Knöbelreiter , Christoph Vogel , Thomas Pock

This work presents a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture and a training procedure to enable robust and accurate pose estimation of a noncooperative spacecraft. First, a new CNN architecture is introduced that has scored a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Tae Ha Park , Sumant Sharma , Simone D'Amico

Compressive sensing (CS), aiming to reconstruct an image/signal from a small set of random measurements has attracted considerable attentions in recent years. Due to the high dimensionality of images, previous CS methods mainly work on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Xiaotong Lu , Weisheng Dong , Peiyao Wang , Guangming Shi , Xuemei Xie

We present a new method for image reconstruction which replaces the projector in a projected gradient descent (PGD) with a convolutional neural network (CNN). CNNs trained as high-dimensional (image-to-image) regressors have recently been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Harshit Gupta , Kyong Hwan Jin , Ha Q. Nguyen , Michael T. McCann , Michael Unser

We introduce the Convolutional Set Transformer (CST), a novel neural architecture designed to process image sets of arbitrary cardinality that are visually heterogeneous yet share high-level semantics - such as a common category, scene, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Federico Chinello , Giacomo Boracchi

Developing deep learning techniques for geometric data is an active and fruitful research area. This paper tackles the problem of sphere-type surface learning by developing a novel surface-to-image representation. Using this representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Niv Haim , Nimrod Segol , Heli Ben-Hamu , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

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

In the past few years, convolutional neural nets (CNN) have shown incredible promise for learning visual representations. In this paper, we use CNNs for the task of predicting surface normals from a single image. But what is the right…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Xiaolong Wang , David F. Fouhey , Abhinav Gupta

This paper addresses the challenge of dense pixel correspondence estimation between two images. This problem is closely related to optical flow estimation task where ConvNets (CNNs) have recently achieved significant progress. While optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Iaroslav Melekhov , Aleksei Tiulpin , Torsten Sattler , Marc Pollefeys , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

It is difficult to recover the motion field from a real-world footage given a mixture of camera shake and other photometric effects. In this paper we propose a hybrid framework by interleaving a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Wenbin Li , Da Chen , Zhihan Lv , Yan Yan , Darren Cosker

We present a novel surface convolution operator acting on vector fields that is based on a simple observation: instead of combining neighboring features with respect to a single coordinate parameterization defined at a given point, we have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Thomas W. Mitchel , Vladimir G. Kim , Michael Kazhdan

We propose the first general framework to automatically correct different types of geometric distortion in a single input image. Our proposed method employs convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained by using a large synthetic distortion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xiaoyu Li , Bo Zhang , Pedro V. Sander , Jing Liao

Convolutional Neural Networks have revolutionized vision applications. There are image domains and representations, however, that cannot be handled by standard CNNs (e.g., spherical images, superpixels). Such data are usually processed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 David Hart , Michael Whitney , Bryan Morse

Photometric stereo leverages variations in illumination conditions to reconstruct surface normals. Display photometric stereo, which employs a conventional monitor as an illumination source, has the potential to overcome limitations often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Seokjun Choi , Seungwoo Yoon , Giljoo Nam , Seungyong Lee , Seung-Hwan Baek