Within the field of cultural heritage restoration, experts are interested in the analysis of data describing the condition and history of ancient monuments. Data are usually distr...
Recently, graphics hardware has increased in capability, and is, moreover, now available even on standard PCs. These advances have encouraged researchers to develop hardware-accel...
Many previous works on photometric stereo have shown how to recover the shape and reflectance properties of an object using multiple images taken under a fixed viewpoint and variab...
—As an object moves through the field of view of a camera, the images of the object may change dramatically. This is not simply due to the translation of the object across the im...
The image of an object can vary dramatically depending on lighting, specularities/reflections and shadows. It is often advantageous to separate these incidental variations from th...