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Recent advancements in Neural Surface Reconstruction (NSR) have significantly improved multi-view reconstruction when coupled with volume rendering. However, relying solely on photometric consistency in image space falls short of addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xinlin Ren , Chenjie Cao , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue

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

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

Photometric stereo is a technique aimed at determining surface normals through the utilization of shading cues derived from images taken under different lighting conditions. However, existing learning-based approaches often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shiyu Qin , Zhihao Cai , Kaixuan Wang , Lin Qi , Junyu Dong

In this work, we present a new multi-view depth estimation method that utilizes both conventional reconstruction and learning-based priors over the recently proposed neural radiance fields (NeRF). Unlike existing neural network based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yi Wei , Shaohui Liu , Yongming Rao , Wang Zhao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

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

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the shape of objects that exhibit spatially-varying reflectance. We assume that multiple images of the object are obtained under a fixed view-point and varying illumination, i.e., the setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Zhuo Hui , Aswin C Sankaranarayanan

We present a method to capture both 3D shape and spatially varying reflectance with a multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) technique that works for general isotropic materials. Our algorithm is suitable for perspective cameras and nearby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Min Li , Zhenglong Zhou , Zhe Wu , Boxin Shi , Changyu Diao , Ping Tan

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

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

Learning accurate depth is essential to multi-view 3D object detection. Recent approaches mainly learn depth from monocular images, which confront inherent difficulties due to the ill-posed nature of monocular depth learning. Instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zengran Wang , Chen Min , Zheng Ge , Yinhao Li , Zeming Li , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang

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

Photometric stereo (PS) is a fundamental technique in computer vision known to produce 3-D shape with high accuracy. The setting of PS is defined by using several input images of a static scene taken from one and the same camera position…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Maryam Khanian , Ali Sharifi Boroujerdi , Michael Breuß

The method of neural radiance fields (NeRF) has been developed in recent years, and this technology has promising applications for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes. However, NeRF requires dense input views, typically numbering in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Young Chun Ahn , Seokhwan Jang , Sungheon Park , Ji-Yeon Kim , Nahyup Kang

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

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

We propose Multi-spectral Neural Radiance Fields(Spec-NeRF) for jointly reconstructing a multispectral radiance field and spectral sensitivity functions(SSFs) of the camera from a set of color images filtered by different filters. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Jiabao Li , Yuqi Li , Ciliang Sun , Chong Wang , Jinhui Xiang

Photometric stereo, a problem of recovering 3D surface normals using images of an object captured under different lightings, has been of great interest and importance in computer vision research. Despite the success of existing traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Ashish Tiwari , Shanmuganathan Raman

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) achieve photo-realistic view synthesis with densely captured input images. However, the geometry of NeRF is extremely under-constrained given sparse views, resulting in significant degradation of novel view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zheng Chen , Chen Wang , Yuan-Chen Guo , Song-Hai Zhang

In recent studies, the generalization of neural radiance fields for novel view synthesis task has been widely explored. However, existing methods are limited to objects and indoor scenes. In this work, we extend the generalization task to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Liang Song , Guangming Wang , Jiuming Liu , Zhenyang Fu , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng