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Multiview photometric stereo (MVPS) seeks to recover high-fidelity surface shapes and reflectances from images captured under varying views and illuminations. However, existing MVPS methods often require controlled darkroom settings for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Songyun Yang , Yufei Han , Jilong Zhang , Kongming Liang , Peng Yu , Zhaowei Qu , Heng Guo

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

Synthesizing a densely sampled light field from a single image is highly beneficial for many applications. Moreover, jointly solving both angular and spatial super-resolution problem also introduces new possibilities in light field imaging.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Andre Ivan , Williem , In Kyu Park

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

State-of-the-art supervised stereo matching methods have achieved remarkable performance on various benchmarks. However, their generalization to real-world scenarios remains challenging due to the scarcity of annotated real-world stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xianqi Wang , Hao Yang , Gangwei Xu , Junda Cheng , Min Lin , Yong Deng , Jinliang Zang , Yurui Chen , Xin Yang

Nighttime stereo depth estimation is still challenging, as assumptions associated with daytime lighting conditions do not hold any longer. Nighttime is not only about low-light and dense noise, but also about glow/glare, flares, non-uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Aashish Sharma , Lionel Heng , Loong-Fah Cheong , Robby T. Tan

Image retrieval under varying illumination conditions, such as day and night images, is addressed by image preprocessing, both hand-crafted and learned. Prior to extracting image descriptors by a convolutional neural network, images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tomas Jenicek , Ondřej Chum

This paper presents a simple and effective solution to the longstanding classical multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) problem. It is well-known that photometric stereo (PS) is excellent at recovering high-frequency surface details, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

We introduce a model named DreamLight for universal image relighting in this work, which can seamlessly composite subjects into a new background while maintaining aesthetic uniformity in terms of lighting and color tone. The background can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yong Liu , Wenpeng Xiao , Qianqian Wang , Junlin Chen , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yansong Tang

Images captured in participating media such as murky water, fog, or smoke are degraded by scattered light. Thus, the use of traditional three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques in such environments is difficult. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Yuki Fujimura , Masaaki Iiyama , Atsushi Hashimoto , Michihiko Minoh

Deep stereo matching has advanced significantly on benchmark datasets through fine-tuning but falls short of the zero-shot generalization seen in foundation models in other vision tasks. We introduce CogStereo, a novel framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Lihuang Fang , Xiao Hu , Yuchen Zou , Hong Zhang

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

Photorealistic style transfer aims to apply stylization while preserving the realism and structure of input content. However, existing methods often encounter challenges such as color tone distortions, dependency on pair-wise pre-training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Rong Liu , Enyu Zhao , Zhiyuan Liu , Andrew Feng , Scott John Easley

Predicting accurate normal maps of objects from two-dimensional images in regions of complex structure and spatial material variations is challenging using photometric stereo methods due to the influence of surface reflection properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kai Luo , Yakun Ju , Lin Qi , Kaixuan Wang , Junyu Dong

Multispectral photometric stereo(MPS) aims at recovering the surface normal of a scene from a single-shot multispectral image captured under multispectral illuminations. Existing MPS methods adopt the Lambertian reflectance model to make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jipeng Lv , Heng Guo , Guanying Chen , Jinxiu Liang , Boxin Shi

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

Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Outdoor scene relighting is a challenging problem that requires good understanding of the scene geometry, illumination and albedo. Current techniques are completely supervised, requiring high quality synthetic renderings to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ye Yu , Abhimitra Meka , Mohamed Elgharib , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt , William A. P. Smith

A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

In this work we propose a novel, highly practical, binocular photometric stereo (PS) framework, which has same acquisition speed as single view PS, however significantly improves the quality of the estimated geometry. As in recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla