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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

Photometric stereo (PS) endeavors to ascertain surface normals using shading clues from photometric images under various illuminations. Recent deep learning-based PS methods often overlook the complexity of object surfaces. These neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kaixuan Wang , Lin Qi , Shiyu Qin , Kai Luo , Yakun Ju , Xia Li , Junyu Dong

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

We propose a fast and generalizable solution to Multi-view Photometric Stereo (MVPS), called MVPSNet. The key to our approach is a feature extraction network that effectively combines images from the same view captured under multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Dongxu Zhao , Daniel Lichy , Pierre-Nicolas Perrin , Jan-Michael Frahm , Soumyadip Sengupta

The speckle field yielded by disordered media is extensively employed for spectral measurements. Existing speckle reconstructive spectrometers (RSs) implemented by neural networks primarily rely on supervised learning, which necessitates…

Photometric stereo is a powerful method for obtaining per-pixel surface normals from differently illuminated images of an object. While several methods address photometric stereo with different image (or light) counts ranging from one to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Ashish Tiwari , Mihir Sutariya , Shanmuganathan Raman

We introduce a generalized version of phase retrieval called multiplexed phase retrieval. We want to recover the phase of amplitude-only measurements from linear combinations of them. This corresponds to the case in which multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Jonathan Dong , Florent Krzakala , Sylvain Gigan

In this work we propose a novel, highly practical, binocular photometric stereo (PS) framework, which has same acquisition speed as single view PS, however significantly improves the quality of the estimated geometry. As in recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

We present a modern solution to the multi-view photometric stereo problem (MVPS). Our work suitably exploits the image formation model in a MVPS experimental setup to recover the dense 3D reconstruction of an object from images. We procure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Francesco Sarno , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

Learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) has gained fine reconstructions on popular datasets. However, supervised learning methods require ground truth for training, which is hard to be collected, especially for the large-scale datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Haonan Dong , Jian Yao

We have demonstrated the capability of spectral multiplexing in multi-distance diffractive imaging, enabling the reconstruction of samples with diverse spectral responses. While previous methods like ptychography utilize redundancy in…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-31 Qijun You , Lingshuo Meng , Yun Gao , Qing Liao , Wei Cao , Peixiang Lu

Photometric stereo is a method that seeks to reconstruct the normal vectors of an object from a set of images of the object illuminated under different light sources. While effective in some situations, classical photometric stereo relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Andrew J. Wagenmaker , Brian E. Moore , Raj Rao Nadakuditi

Spectral unmixing aims at recovering the spectral signatures of materials, called endmembers, mixed in a hyperspectral or multispectral image, along with their abundances. A typical assumption is that the image contains one pure pixel per…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Jeremy E. Cohen , Nicolas Gillis

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

This paper proposes an original problem of \emph{stereo computation from a single mixture image}-- a challenging problem that had not been researched before. The goal is to separate (\ie, unmix) a single mixture image into two constitute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai , Hongdong Li

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

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

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

Multi-spectral imaging, which simultaneously captures the spatial and spectral information of a scene, is widely used across diverse fields, including remote sensing, biomedical imaging, and agricultural monitoring. Here, we introduce a…

We present a new color photometric stereo (CPS) method that recovers high quality, detailed 3D face geometry in a single shot. Our system uses three uncalibrated near point lights of different colors and a single camera. For robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Zhang Chen , Yu Ji , Mingyuan Zhou , Sing Bing Kang , Jingyi Yu