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Modeling outdoor scenes for the synthetic 3D environment requires the recovery of reflectance/albedo information from raw images, which is an ill-posed problem due to the complicated unmodeled physics in this process (e.g., indirect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Shuang Song , Rongjun Qin

We tackle the problem of reflectance estimation from a set of multi-view images, assuming known geometry. The approach we put forward turns the input images into reflectance maps, through a robust variational method. The variational model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Jean Mélou , Yvain Quéau , Jean-Denis Durou , Fabien Castan , Daniel Cremers

Intrinsic image decomposition aims to separate the surface reflectance and the effects from the illumination given a single photograph. Due to the complexity of the problem, most prior works assume a single-color illumination and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Chris Careaga , Yağız Aksoy

Uncalibrated photometric stereo (UPS) is challenging due to the inherent ambiguity brought by unknown light. Existing solutions alleviate the ambiguity by either explicitly associating reflectance to light conditions or resolving light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Zongrui Li , Qian Zheng , Feishi Wang , Boxin Shi , Gang Pan , Xudong Jiang

We present a new color photometric stereo (CPS) method that recovers high quality, detailed 3D face geometry in a single shot. Our system uses three uncalibrated near point lights of different colors and a single camera. For robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Zhang Chen , Yu Ji , Mingyuan Zhou , Sing Bing Kang , Jingyi Yu

We propose a method for estimating high-definition spatially-varying lighting, reflectance, and geometry of a scene from 360$^{\circ}$ stereo images. Our model takes advantage of the 360$^{\circ}$ input to observe the entire scene with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Photometric stereo refers to the process to compute the 3D shape of an object using information on illumination and reflectance from several input images from the same point of view. The most often used reflectance model is the Lambertian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Georg Radow , Michael Breuß

In this paper we present a differential approach to photo-polarimetric shape estimation. We propose several alternative differential constraints based on polarisation and photometric shading information and show how to express them in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Silvia Tozza , William A. P. Smith , Dizhong Zhu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Edwin R. Hancock

Multi-View Photometric Stereo (MVPS) is a popular method for fine-detailed 3D acquisition of an object from images. Despite its outstanding results on diverse material objects, a typical MVPS experimental setup requires a well-calibrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Suryansh Kumar

Underwater image restoration has been a challenging problem for decades since the advent of underwater photography. Most solutions focus on shallow water scenarios, where the scene is uniformly illuminated by the sunlight. However, the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yifan Song , Mengkun She , Kevin Köser

Polynomial and rational functions are the number one choice when it comes to modeling of radial distortion of lenses. However, several extrapolation and numerical issues may arise while using these functions that have not been covered by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-22 Jan Heller , Didier Henrion , Tomas Pajdla

Light field (LF) images acquired by hand-held devices usually suffer from low spatial resolution as the limited sampling resources have to be shared with the angular dimension. LF spatial super-resolution (SR) thus becomes an indispensable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Jing Jin , Junhui Hou , Jie Chen , Sam Kwong

We address the problem of optical decalibration in mobile stereo camera setups, especially in context of autonomous vehicles. In real world conditions, an optical system is subject to various sources of anticipated and unanticipated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Jon Muhovič , Janez Perš

We present a single-shot system to recover surface geometry of objects with spatially-varying albedos, from images captured under a calibrated RGB photometric stereo setup---with three light directions multiplexed across different color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Ayan Chakrabarti , Kalyan Sunkavalli

The goal of photometric stereo is to measure the precise surface normal of a 3D object from observations with various shading cues. However, non-Lambertian surfaces influence the measurement accuracy due to irregular shading cues. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Yakun Ju , Muwei Jian , Shaoxiang Guo , Yingyu Wang , Huiyu Zhou , Junyu Dong

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

Reconstructing the 3D shape of an object from a set of images is a classical problem in Computer Vision. Photometric stereo is one of the possible approaches. It stands on the assumption that the object is observed from a fixed point of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-26 A. Concas , R. Dessì , C. Fenu , G. Rodriguez , M. Vanzi

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

The reconstruction of a 3D object or a scene is a classical inverse problem in Computer Vision. In the case of a single image this is called the Shape-from-Shading (SfS) problem and it is known to be ill-posed even in a simplified version…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-28 Silvia Tozza , Maurizio Falcone

In this paper, we propose a novel, effective and fast method to obtain a color illumination invariant and shadow-free image from a single outdoor image. Different from state-of-the-art methods for shadow-free image that either need shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Liangqiong Qu , Jiandong Tian , Zhi Han , Yandong Tang