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Inferring the 3D shape of an object from an RGB image has shown impressive results, however, existing methods rely primarily on recognizing the most similar 3D model from the training set to solve the problem. These methods suffer from poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Haozhe Xie , Hongxun Yao , Shangchen Zhou , Shengping Zhang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Wenxiu Sun

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

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

Reconstructing the 3D shape of an object using several images under different light sources is a very challenging task, especially when realistic assumptions such as light propagation and attenuation, perspective viewing geometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Fotios Logothetis , Roberto Mecca , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

This paper tackles a new photometric stereo task, named universal photometric stereo. Unlike existing tasks that assumed specific physical lighting models; hence, drastically limited their usability, a solution algorithm of this task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Satoshi Ikehata

Photometric stereo (PS) endeavors to ascertain surface normals using shading clues from photometric images under various illuminations. Recent deep learning-based PS methods often overlook the complexity of object surfaces. These neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kaixuan Wang , Lin Qi , Shiyu Qin , Kai Luo , Yakun Ju , Xia Li , Junyu Dong

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

Photometric stereo is a powerful method for obtaining per-pixel surface normals from differently illuminated images of an object. While several methods address photometric stereo with different image (or light) counts ranging from one to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Ashish Tiwari , Mihir Sutariya , Shanmuganathan Raman

Recently, 3D face reconstruction from a single image has achieved great success with the help of deep learning and shape prior knowledge, but they often fail to produce accurate geometry details. On the other hand, photometric stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xueying Wang , Yudong Guo , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of photometric stereo for non-Lambertian surfaces. Existing approaches often adopt simplified reflectance models to make the problem more tractable, but this greatly hinders their applications on real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Guanying Chen , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

We conduct a thorough study of photometric stereo under nearby point light source illumination, from modeling to numerical solution, through calibration. In the classical formulation of photometric stereo, the luminous fluxes are assumed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yvain Quéau , Bastien Durix , Tao Wu , Daniel Cremers , François Lauze , Jean-Denis Durou

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

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

Universal Photometric Stereo is a promising approach for recovering surface normals without strict lighting assumptions. However, it struggles when multi-illumination cues are unreliable, such as under biased lighting or in shadows or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 King-Man Tam , Satoshi Ikehata , Yuta Asano , Zhaoyi An , Rei Kawakami

Display photometric stereo uses a display as a programmable light source to illuminate a scene with diverse illumination conditions. Recently, differentiable display photometric stereo (DDPS) demonstrated improved normal reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Gawoon Ban , Hyeongjun Kim , Seokjun Choi , Seungwoo Yoon , Seung-Hwan Baek

In this paper, we present a groundbreaking spectrally multiplexed photometric stereo approach for recovering surface normals of dynamic surfaces without the need for calibrated lighting or sensors, a notable advancement in the field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Satoshi Ikehata , Yuta Asano

Photometric stereo is a technique for estimating surface normals using images captured under varying illumination. However, conventional frame-based photometric stereo methods are limited in real-world applications due to their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hyunwoo Kim , Won-Hoe Kim , Sanghoon Lee , Jianfei Cai , Giljoo Nam , Jae-Sang Hyun

This paper proposes an original problem of \emph{stereo computation from a single mixture image}-- a challenging problem that had not been researched before. The goal is to separate (\ie, unmix) a single mixture image into two constitute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai , Hongdong Li

We present a modern solution to the multi-view photometric stereo problem (MVPS). Our work suitably exploits the image formation model in a MVPS experimental setup to recover the dense 3D reconstruction of an object from images. We procure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Francesco Sarno , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

Existing deep calibrated photometric stereo networks basically aggregate observations under different lights based on the pre-defined operations such as linear projection and max pooling. While they are effective with the dense capture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Satoshi Ikehata