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Compared with traditional infrared thermal imaging, polarimetric imaging provides additional polarization information, which effectively enhances object contours and image contrast, with broad application in both military and civilian…

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

3D imaging of specular surfaces remains challenging in real-world scenarios, such as in-line inspection or hand-held scanning, requiring fast and accurate measurement of complex geometries. Optical metrology techniques such as deflectometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jiazhang Wang , Hyelim Yang , Tianyi Wang , Florian Willomitzer

Accurate and fast 3D imaging of specular surfaces still poses major challenges for state-of-the-art optical measurement principles. Frequently used methods, such as phase-measuring deflectometry (PMD) or shape-from-polarization (SfP), rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jiazhang Wang , Oliver Cossairt , Florian Willomitzer

Multi-spectral sensors consisting of a standard (visible-light) camera and a long-wave infrared camera can simultaneously provide both visible and thermal images. Since thermal images are independent from environmental illumination, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Weichen Dai , Yu Zhang , Donglei Sun , Naira Hovakimyan , Ping Li

We propose a polarimetric microwave imaging technique that exploits recent advances in computational imaging. We utilize a frequency-diverse cavity-backed metasurface, allowing us to demonstrate high-resolution polarimetric imaging using a…

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

We report the first computational super-resolved, multi-camera integral imaging at long-wave infrared (LWIR) wavelengths. A synchronized array of FLIR Lepton cameras was assembled, and computational super-resolution and integral-imaging…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-14 Miguel A. Preciado , Guillem Carles , Andrew R. Harvey

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

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

A multispectral camera records image data in various wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum to acquire additional information that a conventional camera fails to capture. With the advent of high-resolution image sensors and colour…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Noor E Karishma Shaik , Bryce Widdicombe , Dechuan Sun , Sam E John , Dongryeol Ryu , Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas , Ranjith R Unnithan

Shape from Polarization (SfP) estimates surface normals using photos captured at different polarizer rotations. Fundamentally, the SfP model assumes that light is reflected either diffusely or specularly. However, this model is not valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Vage Taamazyan , Achuta Kadambi , Ramesh Raskar

Polarization is well known for its ability to decompose diffuse and specular reflections. However, the existing decomposition methods only focus on direct reflection and overlook multiple reflections, especially specular inter-reflection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ryota Maeda , Shinsaku Hiura

Polarization imaging is a technique that creates a pixel map of the polarization state in a scene. Although invisible to the human eye, polarization can assist various sensing and computer vision tasks. Existing polarization cameras use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Noa Kraicer , Shay Elmalem , Erez Yosef , Hani Barhum , Raja Giryes

Neural approaches have shown a significant progress on camera-based reconstruction. But they require either a fairly dense sampling of the viewing sphere, or pre-training on an existing dataset, thereby limiting their generalizability. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mohammed Brahimi , Bjoern Haefner , Zhenzhang Ye , Bastian Goldluecke , Daniel Cremers

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

Achieving high-fidelity 3D surface reconstruction while preserving fine details remains challenging, especially in the presence of materials with complex reflectance properties and without a dense-view setup. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Robin Bruneau , Baptiste Brument , Yvain Quéau , Jean Mélou , François Bernard Lauze , Jean-Denis Durou , Lilian Calvet

While the problem of estimating shapes and diffuse reflectances of human faces from images has been extensively studied, there is relatively less work done on recovering the specular albedo. This paper presents a lightweight solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Guoxian Song , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Tat-Jen Cham

We present Large Inverse Rendering Model (LIRM), a transformer architecture that jointly reconstructs high-quality shape, materials, and radiance fields with view-dependent effects in less than a second. Our model builds upon the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhengqin Li , Dilin Wang , Ka Chen , Zhaoyang Lv , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Milim Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Lei Xiao , Cheng Zhang , Yufeng Zhu , Carl S. Marshall , Yufeng Ren , Richard Newcombe , Zhao Dong

Recent advances in ferroelectrics highlight the role of three-dimensional (3D) polar entities in forming topological polar textures and generating giant electromechanical responses, during polarization rotation. However, current electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Jinho Byun , Keeyong Lee , Myoungho Jeong , Eunha Lee , Jeongil Bang , Haeryong Kim , Geun Ho Gu , Sang Ho Oh