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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

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 methods seek to reconstruct the 3d shape of an object from motionless images obtained with varying illumination. Most existing methods solve a restricted problem where the physical reflectance model, such as Lambertian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Ofer Bartal , Nati Ofir , Yaron Lipman , Ronen Basri

Uncalibrated photometric stereo is proposed to estimate the detailed surface normal from images under varying and unknown lightings. Recently, deep learning brings powerful data priors to this underdetermined problem. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Fangzhou Gao , Meng Wang , Lianghao Zhang , Li Wang , Jiawan Zhang

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

Unsupervised cross-spectral stereo matching aims at recovering disparity given cross-spectral image pairs without any supervision in the form of ground truth disparity or depth. The estimated depth provides additional information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Mingyang Liang , Xiaoyang Guo , Hongsheng Li , Xiaogang Wang , You Song

We propose PRM, a novel photometric stereo based large reconstruction model to reconstruct high-quality meshes with fine-grained local details. Unlike previous large reconstruction models that prepare images under fixed and simple lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Wenhang Ge , Jiantao Lin , Guibao Shen , Jiawei Feng , Tao Hu , Xinli Xu , Ying-Cong Chen

We introduce the first end-to-end learning-based solution to near-field Photometric Stereo (PS), where the light sources are close to the object of interest. This setup is especially useful for reconstructing large immobile objects. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Daniel Lichy , Soumyadip Sengupta , David W. Jacobs

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

Speckle noise is an inherent disturbance in coherent imaging systems such as digital holography, synthetic aperture radar, optical coherence tomography, or ultrasound systems. These systems usually produce only single observation per view…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Tsung-Ming Tai , Yun-Jie Jhang , Wen-Jyi Hwang , Chau-Jern Cheng

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

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

Extracting colorimetric image information from the spectral characteristics of image sensors is a key issue in accurate image acquisition. Technically feasible filter/sensor combinations usually do not replicate colorimetric responses with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-08-11 C. Mayr , S. Henker , A. Krause , J. -U. Schlüßler , R. Schüffny

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

Predicting accurate normal maps of objects from two-dimensional images in regions of complex structure and spatial material variations is challenging using photometric stereo methods due to the influence of surface reflection properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kai Luo , Yakun Ju , Lin Qi , Kaixuan Wang , Junyu Dong

We present a novel method to estimate the surface normal of an object in an ambient light environment using RGB and event cameras. Modern photometric stereo methods rely on an RGB camera, mainly in a dark room, to avoid ambient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Wonjeong Ryoo , Giljoo Nam , Jae-Sang Hyun , Sangpil Kim

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

This paper presents a technique for finding the surface normal of an object from a set of images obtained under different lighting positions. The method presented is based on the principles of Photometric Stereo (PS) combined with Optimum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Hamza Gardi , Sebastian F. Walter , Christoph S. Garbe

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