Overcoming shadows in 3-source photometric stereo

Abstract

Light occlusions are one of the most significant difficulties of photometric stereo methods. When three or more images are available without occlusion, the local surface orientation is overdetermined so that shape can be computed and the shadowed pixels can be discarded. In this paper, we look at the challenging case when only two images are available without occlusion, leading to a one degree of freedom ambiguity per pixel in the local orientation. We show that, in the presence of noise, integrability alone cannot resolve this ambiguity and reconstruct the geometry in the shadowed regions. As the problem is ill-posed in the presence of noise, we describe two regularization schemes that improve the numerical performance of the algorithm while preserving the data. Finally, the paper describes how this theory applies in the framework of color photometric stereo where one is restricted to only three images and light occlusions are common. Experiments on synthetic and real image sequences are presented.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2010.181
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Uncontrolled Keywords: color photometric stereo,ill-posed problem,image sequence,light occlusions,noise,regularization scheme,shadow,Artificial Intelligence,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,Software,Computational Theory and Mathematics,Applied Mathematics
Publication ISSN: 1939-3539
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2024 09:54
Date Deposited: 13 Dec 2011 11:51
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Published Date: 2011-02
Authors: Hernández, Carlos
Vogiatzis, George (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-3226-0603)
Cipolla, Roberto

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