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We address the problem of removing undesirable reflections from a single image captured through a glass surface, which is an ill-posed, challenging but practically important problem for photo enhancement. Inspired by iterative structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Chao Li , Yixiao Yang , Kun He , Stephen Lin , John E. Hopcroft

This paper presents a process for estimating the spatially varying surface reflectance of complex scenes observed under natural illumination. In contrast to previous methods, our process is not limited to scenes viewed under controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

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

SDF-based differential rendering frameworks have achieved state-of-the-art multiview 3D shape reconstruction. In this work, we re-examine this family of approaches by minimally reformulating its core appearance model in a way that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Briac Toussaint , Diego Thomas , Jean-Sébastien Franco

Light-field microscopy represents a promising solution for microscopic volumetric imaging, thanks to its capability to encode information on multiple planes in a single acquisition. This is achieved through its peculiar simultaneous capture…

Light fields preserve angular information which can be retargeted to multi-panel depth displays. Due to limited aperture size and constrained spatial-angular sampling of many light field capture systems, the displayed light fields provide…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-09 Basel Salahieh , Seth Hunter , Yi Wu , Oscar Nestares

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

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Jing Jin , Junhui Hou , Zhiyu Zhu , Jie Chen , Sam Kwong

When imaging through a semi-reflective medium such as glass, the reflection of another scene can often be found in the captured images. It degrades the quality of the images and affects their subsequent analyses. In this paper, a novel deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Tingtian Li , Yuk-Hee Chan , Daniel P. K. Lun

This paper proposes an uncalibrated photometric stereo method for non-Lambertian scenes based on deep learning. Unlike previous approaches that heavily rely on assumptions of specific reflectances and light source distributions, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Guanying Chen , Kai Han , Boxin Shi , Yasuyuki Matsushita , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

We present NeRSP, a Neural 3D reconstruction technique for Reflective surfaces with Sparse Polarized images. Reflective surface reconstruction is extremely challenging as specular reflections are view-dependent and thus violate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yufei Han , Heng Guo , Koki Fukai , Hiroaki Santo , Boxin Shi , Fumio Okura , Zhanyu Ma , Yunpeng Jia

Photometric stereo (PS) techniques nowadays remain constrained to an ideal laboratory setup where modeling and calibration of lighting is amenable. To eliminate such restrictions, we propose an efficient principled variational approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Bjoern Haefner , Zhenzhang Ye , Maolin Gao , Tao Wu , Yvain Quéau , Daniel Cremers

Reconstructing an object's high-quality 3D shape with inherent spectral reflectance property, beyond typical device-dependent RGB albedos, opens the door to applications requiring a high-fidelity 3D model in terms of both geometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Chunyu Li , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Surface reconstruction and novel view rendering from sparse-view images are challenging. Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based methods struggle with fine details, while 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based approaches lack global geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zihui Gao , Jia-Wang Bian , Guosheng Lin , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

Inverse rendering methods aim to estimate geometry, materials and illumination from multi-view RGB images. In order to achieve better decomposition, recent approaches attempt to model indirect illuminations reflected from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Haoqian Wu , Zhipeng Hu , Lincheng Li , Yongqiang Zhang , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

Light field cameras have been proved to be powerful tools for 3D reconstruction and virtual reality applications. However, the limited resolution of light field images brings a lot of difficulties for further information display and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Qingyan Sun , Shuo Zhang , Song Chang , Lixi Zhu , Youfang Lin

This paper explores the problem of reconstructing high-resolution light field (LF) images from hybrid lenses, including a high-resolution camera surrounded by multiple low-resolution cameras. The performance of existing methods is still…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Jing Jin , Mantang Guo , Junhui Hou , Hui Liu , Hongkai Xiong

Coded aperture is a promising approach for capturing the 4-D light field (LF), in which the 4-D data are compressively modulated into 2-D coded measurements that are further decoded by reconstruction algorithms. The bottleneck lies in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-24 Mantang Guo , Junhui Hou , Jing Jin , Jie Chen , Lap-Pui Chau

The reflectance field of a face describes the reflectance properties responsible for complex lighting effects including diffuse, specular, inter-reflection and self shadowing. Most existing methods for estimating the face reflectance from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Mallikarjun B R. , Ayush Tewari , Tae-Hyun Oh , Tim Weyrich , Bernd Bickel , Hans-Peter Seidel , Hanspeter Pfister , Wojciech Matusik , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

In this paper, we propose a novel method for joint recovery of camera pose, object geometry and spatially-varying Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (svBRDF) of 3D scenes that exceed object-scale and hence cannot be captured…

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