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Shape Estimation Using Polarization and Shading from Two Views

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Shape Estimation Using Polarization and Shading from Two Views
—This paper presents a novel method for 3D surface reconstruction that uses polarization and shading information from two views. The method relies on the polarization data acquired using a standard digital camera and a linear polarizer. Fresnel theory is used to process the raw images and to obtain initial estimates of surface normals, assuming that the reflection type is diffuse. Based on this idea, the paper presents two novel contributions to the problem of surface reconstruction. The first is a technique to enhance the surface normal estimates by incorporating shading information into the method. This is done using robust statistics to estimate how the measured pixel brightnesses depend on the surface orientation. This gives an estimate of the object material reflectance function, which is used to refine the estimates of the surface normals. The second contribution is to use the refined estimates to establish correspondence between two views of an object. To do this, surface patc...
Gary Atkinson, Edwin R. Hancock
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Type Journal
Year 2007
Where PAMI
Authors Gary Atkinson, Edwin R. Hancock
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