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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

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

This paper addresses the problem of blind and fully constrained unmixing of hyperspectral images. Unmixing is performed without the use of any dictionary, and assumes that the number of constituent materials in the scene and their spectral…

Applications · Statistics 2015-06-18 Rita Ammanouil , André Ferrari , Cédric Richard , David Mary

Retrieving accurate 3D reconstructions of objects from the way they reflect light is a very challenging task in computer vision. Despite more than four decades since the definition of the Photometric Stereo problem, most of the literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Mecca , Roberto Cipolla

Photometric stereo is a method for estimating the normal vectors of an object from images of the object under varying lighting conditions. Motivated by several recent works that extend photometric stereo to more general objects and lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Andrew J. Wagenmaker , Brian E. Moore , Raj Rao Nadakuditi

This work introduces a novel method for surface normal estimation from rectified stereo image pairs, leveraging affine transformations derived from disparity values to achieve fast and accurate results. We demonstrate how the rectification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Csongor Csanad Kariko , Muhammad Rafi Faisal , Levente Hajder

While supervised stereo matching and monocular depth estimation have advanced significantly with learning-based algorithms, self-supervised methods using stereo images as supervision signals have received relatively less focus and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zihua Liu , Yizhou Li , Songyan Zhang , Masatoshi Okutomi

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

We present a grism extraction package (LINEAR) designed to reconstruct one-dimensional spectra from a collection of slitless spectroscopic images, ideally taken at a variety of orientations, dispersion directions, and/or dither positions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 R. E. Ryan , S. Casertano , N. Pirzkal

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

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

Universal photometric stereo (PS) is defined by two factors: it must (i) operate under arbitrary, unknown lighting conditions and (ii) avoid reliance on specific illumination models. Despite progress (e.g., SDM UniPS), two challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Houyuan Chen , Hong Li , Chongjie Ye , Zhaoxi Chen , Bohan Li , Shaocong Xu , Xianda Guo , Xuhui Liu , Yikai Wang , Baochang Zhang , Satoshi Ikehata , Boxin Shi , Anyi Rao , Hao Zhao

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

We introduce a novel multi-view stereo (MVS) method that can simultaneously recover not just per-pixel depth but also surface normals, together with the reflectance of textureless, complex non-Lambertian surfaces captured under known but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Kohei Yamashita , Yuto Enyo , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

In fluorescence microscopy, spectral unmixing aims to recover individual fluorophore concentrations from spectral images that capture mixed fluorophore emissions. Since classical methods operate pixel-wise and rely on least-squares fitting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Federico Carrara , Talley Lambert , Mehdi Seifi , Florian Jug

We present a novel framework to learn to convert the perpixel photometric information at each view into spatially distinctive and view-invariant low-level features, which can be plugged into existing multi-view stereo pipeline for enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Kaizhang Kang , Cihui Xie , Ruisheng Zhu , Xiaohe Ma , Ping Tan , Hongzhi Wu , Kun Zhou

Multi-view 3D reconstruction, namely, structure-from-motion followed by multi-view stereo, is a fundamental component of 3D computer vision. In general, multi-view 3D reconstruction suffers from an unknown scale ambiguity unless a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Lilika Makabe , Kohei Ashida , Hiroaki Santo , Fumio Okura , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Many materials have distinct spectral profiles. This facilitates estimation of the material composition of a scene at each pixel by first acquiring its hyperspectral image, and subsequently filtering it using a bank of spectral profiles.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Vishwanath Saragadam , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

Reconstructing the 3D shape of an object using several images under different light sources is a very challenging task, especially when realistic assumptions such as light propagation and attenuation, perspective viewing geometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Mecca , Roberto Cipolla

Integrating inverse rendering with multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) yields more accurate 3D reconstructions than the inverse rendering approaches that rely on fixed environment illumination. However, efficient inverse rendering with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yixiao Chen , Bin Liang , Hanzhi Guo , Yongqing Cheng , Jiayi Zhao , Dongdong Weng