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Image restoration under adverse conditions, such as underwater, haze or fog, and low-light environments, remains a highly challenging problem due to complex physical degradations and severe information loss. Existing datasets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Deqing Yang , Yingying Liu , Qicong Wang , Zhi Zeng , Dajiang Lu , Yibin Tian

Multi-view image acquisition systems with two or more cameras can be rather costly due to the number of high resolution image sensors that are required. Recently, it has been shown that by covering a low resolution sensor with a non-regular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Markus Jonscher , Jürgen Seiler , Thomas Richter , Michel Bätz , André Kaup

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

Scene reconstruction from unorganized RGB images is an important task in many computer vision applications. Multi-view Stereo (MVS) is a common solution in photogrammetry applications for the dense reconstruction of a static scene. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Matthias Innmann , Kihwan Kim , Jinwei Gu , Matthias Niessner , Charles Loop , Marc Stamminger , Jan Kautz

Generating a stereophonic presentation from a monophonic audio signal is a challenging open task, especially if the goal is to obtain a realistic spatial imaging with a specific panning of sound elements. In this work, we propose to convert…

This paper proposes an uncalibrated photometric stereo method for non-Lambertian scenes based on deep learning. Unlike previous approaches that heavily rely on assumptions of specific reflectances and light source distributions, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Guanying Chen , Kai Han , Boxin Shi , Yasuyuki Matsushita , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Image inverse halftoning is a classic image restoration task, aiming to recover continuous-tone images from halftone images with only bilevel pixels. Because the halftone images lose much of the original image content, inverse halftoning is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Feiyu Li , Jun Yang

We introduce a novel learning-based method to reconstruct the high-quality geometry and complex, spatially-varying BRDF of an arbitrary object from a sparse set of only six images captured by wide-baseline cameras under collocated point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

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

Recovering the 3D shape of transparent objects using a small number of unconstrained natural images is an ill-posed problem. Complex light paths induced by refraction and reflection have prevented both traditional and deep multiview stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Zhengqin Li , Yu-Ying Yeh , Manmohan Chandraker

Series photo selection (SPS) is an important branch of the image aesthetics quality assessment, which focuses on finding the best one from a series of nearly identical photos. While a great progress has been observed, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jin Huang , Lu Zhang , Yongshun Gong , Jian Zhang , Xiushan Nie , Yilong Yin

In this paper, we study the problem of stereo matching from a pair of images with different resolutions, e.g., those acquired with a tele-wide camera system. Due to the difficulty of obtaining ground-truth disparity labels in diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xihao Chen , Zhiwei Xiong , Zhen Cheng , Jiayong Peng , Yueyi Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha

PatchMatch Multi-View Stereo (PatchMatch MVS) is one of the popular MVS approaches, owing to its balanced accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we propose Polarimetric PatchMatch multi-view Stereo (PolarPMS), which is the first method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jinyu Zhao , Jumpei Oishi , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

We address the problem of registering synchronized color (RGB) and multi-spectral (MS) images featuring very different resolution by solving stereo matching correspondences. Purposely, we introduce a novel RGB-MS dataset framing 13…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Fabio Tosi , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Matteo Poggi , Samuele Salti , Stefano Mattoccia , Luigi Di Stefano

We propose Differentiable Stereopsis, a multi-view stereo approach that reconstructs shape and texture from few input views and noisy cameras. We pair traditional stereopsis and modern differentiable rendering to build an end-to-end model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Shubham Goel , Georgia Gkioxari , Jitendra Malik

Many spectral CT applications require accurate material decomposition. Existing material decomposition algorithms are often susceptible to significant noise magnification or, in the case of one-step model-based approaches, hampered by slow…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Xiao Jiang , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman

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

3D reconstruction aims to recover the dense 3D structure of a scene. It plays an essential role in various applications such as Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), autonomous driving and robotics. Leveraging multiple views of a scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Fangjinhua Wang , Qingtian Zhu , Di Chang , Quankai Gao , Junlin Han , Tong Zhang , Richard Hartley , Marc Pollefeys

Self-supervised learning for depth estimation possesses several advantages over supervised learning. The benefits of no need for ground-truth depth, online fine-tuning, and better generalization with unlimited data attract researchers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Weihao Yuan , Yazhan Zhang , Bingkun Wu , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan , Michael Yu Wang , Qifeng Chen

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