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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

This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

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

Photometric stereo recovers the surface normals of an object from multiple images with varying shading cues, i.e., modeling the relationship between surface orientation and intensity at each pixel. Photometric stereo prevails in superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yakun Ju , Kin-Man Lam , Wuyuan Xie , Huiyu Zhou , Junyu Dong , 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

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

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

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

Most conventional photometric stereo algorithms inversely solve a BRDF-based image formation model. However, the actual imaging process is often far more complex due to the global light transport on the non-convex surfaces. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Satoshi Ikehata

While deep learning has recently achieved great success on multi-view stereo (MVS), limited training data makes the trained model hard to be generalized to unseen scenarios. Compared with other computer vision tasks, it is rather difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yao Yao , Zixin Luo , Shiwei Li , Jingyang Zhang , Yufan Ren , Lei Zhou , Tian Fang , Long Quan

This paper addresses the problem of photometric stereo, in both calibrated and uncalibrated scenarios, for non-Lambertian surfaces based on deep learning. We first introduce a fully convolutional deep network for calibrated photometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Guanying Chen , Kai Han , Boxin Shi , Yasuyuki Matsushita , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

This paper introduces a versatile paradigm for integrating multi-view reflectance (optional) and normal maps acquired through photometric stereo. Our approach employs a pixel-wise joint re-parameterization of reflectance and normal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Baptiste Brument , Robin Bruneau , Yvain Quéau , Jean Mélou , François Bernard Lauze , Jean-Denis , Jean-Denis Durou , Lilian Calvet

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

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

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

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

Highly accurate 3D volumetric reconstruction is still an open research topic where the main difficulty is usually related to merging some rough estimations with high frequency details. One of the most promising methods is the fusion between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Fotios Logothetis , Roberto Mecca , Roberto Cipolla

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 biggest improvements in Photometric Stereo (PS) field has recently come from adoption of differentiable volumetric rendering techniques such as NeRF or Neural SDF achieving impressive reconstruction error of 0.2mm on DiLiGenT-MV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Stephan Liwicki , Roberto Cipolla

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