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Universal photometric stereo (PS) is defined by two factors: it must (i) operate under arbitrary, unknown lighting conditions and (ii) avoid reliance on specific illumination models. Despite progress (e.g., SDM UniPS), two challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Houyuan Chen , Hong Li , Chongjie Ye , Zhaoxi Chen , Bohan Li , Shaocong Xu , Xianda Guo , Xuhui Liu , Yikai Wang , Baochang Zhang , Satoshi Ikehata , Boxin Shi , Anyi Rao , Hao Zhao

Inverse rendering is the problem of decomposing an image into its intrinsic components, i.e. albedo, normal and lighting. To solve this ill-posed problem from single image, state-of-the-art methods in shape from shading mostly resort to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Mona Zehni , Shaona Ghosh , Krishna Sridhar , Sethu Raman

Reconstructing the 3D shape of an object from a set of images is a classical problem in Computer Vision. Photometric stereo is one of the possible approaches. It stands on the assumption that the object is observed from a fixed point of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-26 A. Concas , R. Dessì , C. Fenu , G. Rodriguez , M. Vanzi

Photometric stereo typically demands intricate data acquisition setups involving multiple light sources to recover surface normals accurately. In this paper, we propose MERLiN, an attention-based hourglass network that integrates single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ashish Tiwari , Satoshi Ikehata , Shanmuganathan Raman

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

Photometric stereo provides an important method for high-fidelity 3D reconstruction based on multiple intensity images captured under different illumination directions. In this paper, we present a complete framework, including a multilight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yanlong Cao , Binjie Ding , Zewei He , Jiangxin Yang , Jingxi Chen , Yanpeng Cao , Xin Li

While supervised stereo matching and monocular depth estimation have advanced significantly with learning-based algorithms, self-supervised methods using stereo images as supervision signals have received relatively less focus and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zihua Liu , Yizhou Li , Songyan Zhang , Masatoshi Okutomi

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

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of a vast number of applications requiring 3D assessment of the environment, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving to name a few. One prominent technique for depth estimation is stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Amit Bracha , Noam Rotstein , David Bensaïd , Ron Slossberg , Ron Kimmel

Today, Multi-View Stereo techniques are able to reconstruct robust and detailed 3D models, especially when starting from high-resolution images. However, there are cases in which the resolution of input images is relatively low, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Eugenio Lomurno , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

Three-dimensional reconstruction of objects from shading information is a challenging task in computer vision. As most of the approaches facing the Photometric Stereo problem use simplified far-field assumptions, real-world scenarios have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Roberto Mecca , Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

End-to-end deep-learning networks recently demonstrated extremely good perfor- mance for stereo matching. However, existing networks are difficult to use for practical applications since (1) they are memory-hungry and unable to process even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Stepan Tulyakov , Anton Ivanov , Francois Fleuret

Estimating shape and appearance of a three dimensional object from a given set of images is a classic research topic that is still actively pursued. Among the various techniques available, PS is distinguished by the assumption that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Georg Radow , Laurent Hoeltgen , Yvain Quéau , Michael Breuß

This work presents dense stereo reconstruction using high-resolution images for infrastructure inspections. The state-of-the-art stereo reconstruction methods, both learning and non-learning ones, consume too much computational resource on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yaoyu Hu , Weikun Zhen , Sebastian Scherer

We present a method to edit complex indoor lighting from a single image with its predicted depth and light source segmentation masks. This is an extremely challenging problem that requires modeling complex light transport, and disentangling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhengqin Li , Jia Shi , Sai Bi , Rui Zhu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Zexiang Xu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Manmohan Chandraker

Multi-View Photometric Stereo (MVPS) is a popular method for fine-detailed 3D acquisition of an object from images. Despite its outstanding results on diverse material objects, a typical MVPS experimental setup requires a well-calibrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Suryansh Kumar

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

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

The problem of estimating a surface shape from its observed reflectance properties still remains a challenging task in computer vision. The presence of global illumination effects such as inter-reflections or cast shadows makes the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 David Honzátko , Engin Türetken , Pascal Fua , L. Andrea Dunbar

We present a novel method to reconstruct a spectral central view and its aligned disparity map from spatio-spectrally coded light fields. Since we do not reconstruct an intermediate full light field from the coded measurement, we refer to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Maximilian Schambach , Jiayang Shi , Michael Heizmann