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Uncalibrated photometric stereo (UPS) is challenging due to the inherent ambiguity brought by the unknown light. Although the ambiguity is alleviated on non-Lambertian objects, the problem is still difficult to solve for more general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Zongrui Li , Qian Zheng , Boxin Shi , Gang Pan , Xudong Jiang

Color photometric stereo enables single-shot surface reconstruction, extending conventional photometric stereo that requires multiple images of a static scene under varying illumination to dynamic scenarios. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zonglin Li , Jieji Ren , Shuangfan Zhou , Heng Guo , Jinnuo Zhang , Jiang Zhou , Boxin Shi , Zhanyu Ma , Guoying Gu

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

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of separating the reflectance and shading layers of an image, which is a challenging and underdetermined problem. In this paper, we propose to systematically address this problem using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Sai Bi , Nima Khademi Kalantari , Ravi Ramamoorthi

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

A novel depth super-resolution approach for RGB-D sensors is presented. It disambiguates depth super-resolution through high-resolution photometric clues and, symmetrically, it disambiguates uncalibrated photometric stereo through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Songyou Peng , Bjoern Haefner , Yvain Quéau , Daniel Cremers

We present SfSNet, an end-to-end learning framework for producing an accurate decomposition of an unconstrained human face image into shape, reflectance and illuminance. SfSNet is designed to reflect a physical lambertian rendering model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Soumyadip Sengupta , Angjoo Kanazawa , Carlos D. Castillo , David Jacobs

In this paper, we present confidence inference approachin an unsupervised way in stereo matching. Deep Neu-ral Networks (DNNs) have recently been achieving state-of-the-art performance. However, it is often hard to tellwhether the trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Ruichao Xiao , Wenxiu Sun , Chengxi Yang

Photometric stereo leverages variations in illumination conditions to reconstruct surface normals. Display photometric stereo, which employs a conventional monitor as an illumination source, has the potential to overcome limitations often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Seokjun Choi , Seungwoo Yoon , Giljoo Nam , Seungyong Lee , Seung-Hwan Baek

Unsupervised cross-spectral stereo matching aims at recovering disparity given cross-spectral image pairs without any supervision in the form of ground truth disparity or depth. The estimated depth provides additional information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Mingyang Liang , Xiaoyang Guo , Hongsheng Li , Xiaogang Wang , You Song

Uncalibrated photometric stereo aims at estimating the 3D-shape of a surface, given a set of images captured from the same viewing angle, but under unknown, varying illumination. While the theoretical foundations of this inverse problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Mohammed Brahimi , Yvain Quéau , Bjoern Haefner , Daniel Cremers

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

In this paper, we introduce SDM-UniPS, a groundbreaking Scalable, Detailed, Mask-free, and Universal Photometric Stereo network. Our approach can recover astonishingly intricate surface normal maps, rivaling the quality of 3D scanners, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Satoshi Ikehata

We propose a novel non-rigid image registration algorithm that is built upon fully convolutional networks (FCNs) to optimize and learn spatial transformations between pairs of images to be registered. Different from most existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Hongming Li , Yong Fan

Computational stereo has reached a high level of accuracy, but degrades in the presence of occlusions, repeated textures, and correspondence errors along edges. We present a novel approach based on neural networks for depth estimation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yinda Zhang , Neal Wadhwa , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Christian Häne , Sean Fanello , Rahul Garg

Deep Learning based stereo matching methods have shown great successes and achieved top scores across different benchmarks. However, like most data-driven methods, existing deep stereo matching networks suffer from some well-known drawbacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yiran Zhong , Hongdong Li , Yuchao Dai

A novel non-rigid image registration algorithm is built upon fully convolutional networks (FCNs) to optimize and learn spatial transformations between pairs of images to be registered in a self-supervised learning framework. Different from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Hongming Li , Yong Fan

This paper solves the Sparse Photometric stereo through Lighting Interpolation and Normal Estimation using a generative Network (SPLINE-Net). SPLINE-Net contains a lighting interpolation network to generate dense lighting observations given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Qian Zheng , Yiming Jia , Boxin Shi , Xudong Jiang , Ling-Yu Duan , Alex C. Kot

Recovering the shape and reflectance of non-Lambertian surfaces remains a challenging problem in computer vision since the view-dependent appearance invalidates traditional photo-consistency constraint. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Mingyuan Zhou , Yu Ji , Yuqi Ding , Jinwei Ye , S. Susan Young , Jingyi Yu

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is a crucial technique for material surface analysis, yet interpreting its spectra is often challenging for both human analysts and automated methods due to the prevalence of variable spectral shifts…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Issa Saddiq , Yuxin Fan , Robert G. Palgrave , Mark A. Isaacs , David Morgan , Keith T. Butler