کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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525599 | 868997 | 2016 | 11 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• New photometric stereo method that recovers surface height directly.
• Propose a model-based approach to selecting and removing noisy observations.
• Exploit photometric ratios to express height recovery as a large sparse linear system of equations.
• Evaluate quantitatively and qualitatively on wide range of objects including shadows and specularities.
In this paper, we present a photometric stereo algorithm for estimating surface height. We follow recent work that uses photometric ratios to obtain a linear formulation relating surface gradients and image intensity. Using smoothed finite difference approximations for the surface gradient, we are able to express surface height recovery as a linear least squares problem that is large but sparse. In order to make the method practically useful, we combine it with a model-based approach that excludes observations which deviate from the assumptions made by the image formation model. Despite its simplicity, we show that our algorithm provides surface height estimates of a high quality even for objects with highly non-Lambertian appearance. We evaluate the method on both synthetic images with ground truth and challenging real images that contain strong specular reflections and cast shadows.
Journal: Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Volume 145, April 2016, Pages 128–138