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This paper addresses the problem of mirror surface reconstruction, and proposes a solution based on observing the reflections of a moving reference plane on the mirror surface. Unlike previous approaches which require tedious calibration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Kai Han , Miaomiao Liu , Dirk Schnieders , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Reconstructing an object's geometry and appearance from multiple images, also known as inverse rendering, is a fundamental problem in computer graphics and vision. Inverse rendering is inherently ill-posed because the captured image is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Akshat Dave , Yongyi Zhao , Ashok Veeraraghavan

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

Inverse rendering aims to reconstruct geometry and reflectance from captured images. Display-camera imaging systems offer unique advantages for this task: each pixel can easily function as a programmable point light source, and the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Seokjun Choi , Hoon-Gyu Chung , Yujin Jeon , Giljoo Nam , Seung-Hwan Baek

The recent development of the on-chip micro-polarizer technology has made it possible to acquire four spatially aligned and temporally synchronized polarization images with the same ease of operation as a conventional camera. In this paper,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Juiwen Ting , Xuesong Wu , Kangkang Hu , Hong Zhang

Robust and accurate camera calibration is essential for 3D reconstruction in light microscopy under circular motion. Conventional methods require either accurate key point matching or precise segmentation of the axial-view images. Both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Yuanhao Guo , Fons J. Verbeek , Ge Yang

This paper tackles the task of uncalibrated photometric stereo for 3D object reconstruction, where both the object shape, object reflectance, and lighting directions are unknown. This is an extremely difficult task, and the challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li

Polarization cameras can capture multiple polarized images with different polarizer angles in a single shot, bringing convenience to polarization-based downstream tasks. However, their direct outputs are color-polarization filter array…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Shuangfan Zhou , Chu Zhou , Youwei Lyu , Heng Guo , Zhanyu Ma , Boxin Shi , Imari Sato

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

Shape from Polarization (SfP) estimates surface normals using photos captured at different polarizer rotations. Fundamentally, the SfP model assumes that light is reflected either diffusely or specularly. However, this model is not valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Vage Taamazyan , Achuta Kadambi , Ramesh Raskar

Compared with traditional infrared thermal imaging, polarimetric imaging provides additional polarization information, which effectively enhances object contours and image contrast, with broad application in both military and civilian…

Reflective and textureless surfaces remain a challenge in multi-view 3D reconstruction. Both camera pose calibration and shape reconstruction often fail due to insufficient or unreliable cross-view visual features. To address these issues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mingzhi Pei , Xu Cao , Xiangyi Wang , Heng Guo , Zhanyu Ma

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

Inverse rendering remains a core challenge in graphics and vision, especially in the snapshot configurations required for lightweight desktop workflows, where the per-frame information budget is highly constrained. Previous inverse…

The translation of imaging Mueller polarimetry to clinical practice is often hindered by large footprint and relatively slow acquisition speed of the existing instruments. Using polarization-sensitive camera as a detector may reduce…

We propose a scene-level inverse rendering framework that uses multi-view images to decompose the scene into geometry, a SVBRDF, and 3D spatially-varying lighting. Because multi-view images provide a variety of information about the scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 JunYong Choi , SeokYeong Lee , Haesol Park , Seung-Won Jung , Ig-Jae Kim , Junghyun Cho

PatchMatch Multi-View Stereo (PatchMatch MVS) is one of the popular MVS approaches, owing to its balanced accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we propose Polarimetric PatchMatch multi-view Stereo (PolarPMS), which is the first method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jinyu Zhao , Jumpei Oishi , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Recent advancements in neural surface reconstruction have significantly enhanced 3D reconstruction. However, current real world datasets mainly focus on benchmarking multiview stereo (MVS) based on RGB inputs. Multiview photometric stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zaiyan Yang , Jieji Ren , Xiangyi Wang , zonglin li , Xu Cao , Heng Guo , Zhanyu Ma , Boxin Shi

Astronomical optical interferometers (OI) sample the Fourier transform of the intensity distribution of a source at the observation wavelength. Because of rapid atmospheric perturbations, the phases of the complex Fourier samples…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-06 Antony Schutz , André Ferrari , David Mary , Eric Thiébaut , Ferréol Soulez

Reconstructing an accurate 3D object model from a few image observations remains a challenging problem in computer vision. State-of-the-art approaches typically assume accurate camera poses as input, which could be difficult to obtain in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zhenpei Yang , Zhile Ren , Miguel Angel Bautista , Zaiwei Zhang , Qi Shan , Qixing Huang