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This paper presents a technique for finding the surface normal of an object from a set of images obtained under different lighting positions. The method presented is based on the principles of Photometric Stereo (PS) combined with Optimum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Hamza Gardi , Sebastian F. Walter , Christoph S. Garbe

Photometric stereo is a method that seeks to reconstruct the normal vectors of an object from a set of images of the object illuminated under different light sources. While effective in some situations, classical photometric stereo relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Andrew J. Wagenmaker , Brian E. Moore , Raj Rao Nadakuditi

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

Photometric stereo, a problem of recovering 3D surface normals using images of an object captured under different lightings, has been of great interest and importance in computer vision research. Despite the success of existing traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Ashish Tiwari , Shanmuganathan Raman

In this work, we address the problem of jointly estimating albedo, normals, depth and 3D spatially-varying lighting from a single image. Most existing methods formulate the task as image-to-image translation, ignoring the 3D properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zian Wang , Jonah Philion , Sanja Fidler , Jan Kautz

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the shape of objects that exhibit spatially-varying reflectance. We assume that multiple images of the object are obtained under a fixed view-point and varying illumination, i.e., the setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Zhuo Hui , Aswin C Sankaranarayanan

Photometric stereo recovers the surface normals of an object from multiple images with varying shading cues, i.e., modeling the relationship between surface orientation and intensity at each pixel. Photometric stereo prevails in superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yakun Ju , Kin-Man Lam , Wuyuan Xie , Huiyu Zhou , Junyu Dong , Boxin Shi

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

A novel approach towards depth map super-resolution using multi-view uncalibrated photometric stereo is presented. Practically, an LED light source is attached to a commodity RGB-D sensor and is used to capture objects from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Lu Sang , Bjoern Haefner , 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

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

We present a method to capture both 3D shape and spatially varying reflectance with a multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) technique that works for general isotropic materials. Our algorithm is suitable for perspective cameras and nearby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Min Li , Zhenglong Zhou , Zhe Wu , Boxin Shi , Changyu Diao , Ping Tan

This paper presents a novel technique for camera calibration using a single view that incorporates a spherical mirror. Leveraging the distinct characteristics of the sphere's contour visible in the image and its reflections, we showcase the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Nissim Barzilay , Ofek Narinsky , Michael Werman

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

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

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

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

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

Recent work in multi-view stereo (MVS) combines learnable photometric scores and regularization with PatchMatch-based optimization to achieve robust pixelwise estimates of depth, normals, and visibility. However, non-learning based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jae Yong Lee , Chuhang Zou , Derek Hoiem

Universal photometric stereo (PS) is defined by two factors: it must (i) operate under arbitrary, unknown lighting conditions and (ii) avoid reliance on specific illumination models. Despite progress (e.g., SDM UniPS), two challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Houyuan Chen , Hong Li , Chongjie Ye , Zhaoxi Chen , Bohan Li , Shaocong Xu , Xianda Guo , Xuhui Liu , Yikai Wang , Baochang Zhang , Satoshi Ikehata , Boxin Shi , Anyi Rao , Hao Zhao