Reconstruction in the round using photometric normals and silhouettes

George Vogiatzis*, Carlos Hernández, Roberto Cipolla

*Corresponding author for this work

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference outputConference publication

    Abstract

    This paper addresses the problem of obtaining complete, detailed reconstructions of shiny textureless objects. We present an algorithm which uses silhouettes of the object, as well as images obtained under varying illumination conditions. In contrast with previous photometric stereo techniques, ours is not limited to a single viewpoint and produces accurate reconstructions in full 3D. A number of images of the object are obtained from multiple viewpoints, under varying lighting conditions. Starting from the silhouettes, the algorithm recovers camera motion and constructs the object's visual hull. This is then used to recover the illumination and initialise a multi-view photometric stereo scheme to obtain a closed surface reconstruction. The contributions of the paper are twofold: Firstly we describe a robust technique to estimate light directions and intensities and secondly, we introduce a novel formulation of photometric stereo which combines multiple viewpoints and hence allows closed surface reconstructions. The algorithm has been implemented as a practical model acquisition system. Here, a quantitative evaluation of the algorithm on synthetic data is presented together with a complete reconstruction of a challenging real object.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2006
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages1847-1854
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Print)0769525970, 9780769525976
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 9 Oct 2006
    Event2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2006 - New York, NY, United States
    Duration: 17 Jun 200622 Jun 2006

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Volume2
    ISSN (Print)1063-6919

    Conference

    Conference2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2006
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityNew York, NY
    Period17/06/0622/06/06

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