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Imaging an object embedded within a scattering medium requires the correction of complex sample-induced wave distortions. Existing approaches have been designed to resolve them by optimizing signal waves recorded in each 2D image. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-17 Ye-Ryoung Lee , Dong-Young Kim , Yonghyeon Jo , Moonseok Kim , Wonshik Choi

In this paper, we present a groundbreaking spectrally multiplexed photometric stereo approach for recovering surface normals of dynamic surfaces without the need for calibrated lighting or sensors, a notable advancement in the field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Satoshi Ikehata , Yuta Asano

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

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

Methods for 3D reconstruction such as Photometric stereo recover the shape and reflectance properties using multiple images of an object taken with variable lighting conditions from a fixed viewpoint. Photometric stereo assumes that a scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Anish R. Khadka , Paolo Remagnino , Vasileios Argyriou

Spectral imaging enables the analysis of optical material properties that are invisible to the human eye. Different spectral capturing setups, e.g., based on filter-wheel, push-broom, line-scanning, or mosaic cameras, have been introduced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Eric L. Wisotzky , Jost Triller , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

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

This paper tackles a new photometric stereo task, named universal photometric stereo. Unlike existing tasks that assumed specific physical lighting models; hence, drastically limited their usability, a solution algorithm of this task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Satoshi Ikehata

Images captured in participating media such as murky water, fog, or smoke are degraded by scattered light. Thus, the use of traditional three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques in such environments is difficult. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Yuki Fujimura , Masaaki Iiyama , Atsushi Hashimoto , Michihiko Minoh

This paper describes a linear solution method for near-light photometric stereo by exploiting symmetric light source arrangements. Unlike conventional non-convex optimization approaches, by arranging multiple sets of symmetric nearby light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Lilika Makabe , Heng Guo , Hiroaki Santo , Fumio Okura , Yasuyuki Matsushita

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

Multi-view 3D reconstruction has remained an essential yet challenging problem in the field of computer vision. While DUSt3R and its successors have achieved breakthroughs in 3D reconstruction from unposed images, these methods exhibit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Sidun Liu , Wenyu Li , Peng Qiao , Yong Dou

This study explores the use of photometric techniques (shape-from-shading and uncalibrated photometric stereo) for upsampling the low-resolution depth map from an RGB-D sensor to the higher resolution of the companion RGB image. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Bjoern Haefner , Songyou Peng , Alok Verma , Yvain Quéau , Daniel Cremers

3D reconstruction aims to recover the dense 3D structure of a scene. It plays an essential role in various applications such as Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), autonomous driving and robotics. Leveraging multiple views of a scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Fangjinhua Wang , Qingtian Zhu , Di Chang , Quankai Gao , Junlin Han , Tong Zhang , Richard Hartley , Marc Pollefeys

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

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

Solving image-to-3D from a single view is an ill-posed problem, and current neural reconstruction methods addressing it through diffusion models still rely on scene-specific optimization, constraining their generalization capability. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Christian Simon , Sen He , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Mengmeng Xu , Amine Benhalloum , Tao Xiang

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

This paper presents a novel method for the reconstruction of 3D edges in multi-view stereo scenarios. Previous research in the field typically relied on video sequences and limited the reconstruction process to either straight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Andrea Bignoli , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

This paper studies the problem of view synthesis with certain amount of rotations from a pair of images, what we called stereo unstructured magnification. While the multi-plane image representation is well suited for view synthesis with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Qi Zhang , Xin Huang , Ying Feng , Xue Wang , Hongdong Li , Qing Wang