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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

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that offer several advantages, such as low latency, high-speed and high dynamic range, to tackle challenging scenarios in computer vision. This paper presents a solution to the problem of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Yi Zhou , Guillermo Gallego , Henri Rebecq , Laurent Kneip , Hongdong Li , Davide Scaramuzza

We present a method that leverages the complementarity of event cameras and standard cameras to track visual features with low-latency. Event cameras are novel sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes, called "events". They offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Daniel Gehrig , Henri Rebecq , Guillermo Gallego , Davide Scaramuzza

Recently, the energy-efficient photometric stereo method using an event camera has been proposed to recover surface normals from events triggered by changes in logarithmic Lambertian reflections under a moving directional light source.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kazuma Kitazawa , Takahito Aoto , Satoshi Ikehata , Tsuyoshi Takatani

Stereopsis has widespread appeal in robotics as it is the predominant way by which living beings perceive depth to navigate our 3D world. Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that detect per-pixel brightness changes asynchronously,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Suman Ghosh , Guillermo Gallego

3D object detection is essential for autonomous systems, enabling precise localization and dimension estimation. While LiDAR and RGB cameras are widely used, their fixed frame rates create perception gaps in high-speed scenarios. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jae-Young Kang , Hoonhee Cho , Kuk-Jin Yoon

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

In this work, we propose a novel event based stereo method which addresses the problem of motion blur for a moving event camera. Our method uses the velocity of the camera and a range of disparities to synchronize the positions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Alex Zihao Zhu , Yibo Chen , Kostas Daniilidis

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

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

We propose a method for estimating high-definition spatially-varying lighting, reflectance, and geometry of a scene from 360$^{\circ}$ stereo images. Our model takes advantage of the 360$^{\circ}$ input to observe the entire scene with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that differ from conventional frame cameras: Instead of capturing images at a fixed rate, they asynchronously measure per-pixel brightness changes, and output a stream of events that encode the time,…

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that mimic the human retina by responding to brightness changes in the scene. They generate asynchronous spike-based outputs at microsecond resolution, providing advantages over traditional cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Suman Ghosh , Guillermo Gallego

Event based cameras are a new passive sensing modality with a number of benefits over traditional cameras, including extremely low latency, asynchronous data acquisition, high dynamic range and very low power consumption. There has been a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Alex Zihao Zhu , Dinesh Thakur , Tolga Ozaslan , Bernd Pfrommer , Vijay Kumar , Kostas Daniilidis

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

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

Photometric stereo leverages variations in illumination conditions to reconstruct surface normals. Display photometric stereo, which employs a conventional monitor as an illumination source, has the potential to overcome limitations often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Seokjun Choi , Seungwoo Yoon , Giljoo Nam , Seungyong Lee , Seung-Hwan Baek

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle state estimation tasks involving motion blur and high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Sheng Zhong , Junkai Niu , Yi Zhou

Shading-based approaches like Photometric Stereo assume that the image formation model can be effectively optimized for the scene normals. However, in murky water this is a very challenging problem. The light from artificial sources is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Chourmouzios Tsiotsios , Maria E. Angelopoulou , Andrew J. Davison , Tae-Kyun Kim

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