Reconstructing the 3D shape of an object from a set of images is a classical problem in Computer Vision. Photometric stereo is one of the possible approaches. It stands on the assumption that the object is observed from a fixed point of view under different lighting conditions. The traditional approach requires that the position of the light sources is accurately known. It has been proved that the lights position can be estimated directly from the data when at least 6 images of the observed object are available. In this paper, we present a Matlab implementation of the algorithm for solving the photometric stereo problem under unknown lighting, and propose a simple shooting technique to solve the bas-relief ambiguity.

Identifying the lights position in photometric stereo under unknown lighting

Concas A.;Dessi R.;Fenu C.;Rodriguez G.;Vanzi M.
2021-01-01

Abstract

Reconstructing the 3D shape of an object from a set of images is a classical problem in Computer Vision. Photometric stereo is one of the possible approaches. It stands on the assumption that the object is observed from a fixed point of view under different lighting conditions. The traditional approach requires that the position of the light sources is accurately known. It has been proved that the lights position can be estimated directly from the data when at least 6 images of the observed object are available. In this paper, we present a Matlab implementation of the algorithm for solving the photometric stereo problem under unknown lighting, and propose a simple shooting technique to solve the bas-relief ambiguity.
2021
978-1-6654-5843-6
computer vision
finite differences
low-rank approximation
photometric stereo
shape from shading
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