Using frontier points to recover shape, reflectance and illumination

George Vogiatzis*, Paolo Favaro, Roberto Cipolla

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We describe a method to recover the surface reflectance and the 3-d shape of a non-Lambertian object as well as illumination, from a collection of images. It is based on the so-called frontier points, which are extracted from the outlines of an object. Frontier points provide 3-d locations on the object surface where the surface normal is known. This information is exploited to infer the surface reflectance of the object and the light distribution of the scene both under varying illumination and fixed vantage point, and under varying vantage point and fixed illumination. We also show how to apply frontier points for shape recovery in photometric stereo. The effectiveness of frontier points for recovering reflectance, illumination and shape is confirmed by a number of experiments on both real and synthetic data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2005
PublisherIEEE
Pages228-235
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)076952334X, 9780769523347
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Dec 2005
EventProceedings - 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2005 - Beijing, China
Duration: 17 Oct 200520 Oct 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
VolumeI

Conference

ConferenceProceedings - 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2005
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period17/10/0520/10/05

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