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Efficient Photometric Stereo Technique for Three-Dimensional Surfaces with Unknown BRDF

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Efficient Photometric Stereo Technique for Three-Dimensional Surfaces with Unknown BRDF
The present paper focuses on efficient inverse rendering using a Photometric Stereo technique for realistic surfaces. The technique primarily assumes the Lambertian reflection model only. For non-Lambertian surfaces, application of the technique to real surfaces in order to estimate 3-D shape and spatially varying reflectance from sparse images remains difficult. In the present paper, we propose a new Photometric Stereo technique by which to efficiently recover a full surface model, starting from a small set of photographs. The proposed technique allows diffuse albedo to vary arbitrarily over surfaces while non-diffuse characteristics remain constant for a material. Specifically, the basic approach is to first recover the specular reflectance parameters of the surfaces by a novel optimization procedure. These parameters are then used to estimate the diffuse reflectance and surface normal for each point. As a result, a lighting-independent model of the geometry and reflectance properti...
Li Shen, Takashi Machida, Haruo Takemura
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where 3DIM
Authors Li Shen, Takashi Machida, Haruo Takemura
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