Improved Diffuse Reflection Models for Computer Vision

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-71

  Wolff, Lawrence B ^a   Nayar, Shree K ^b   Oren, Michael ^c,d  

^a Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

^b Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d D E SHAW RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Physics based vision; Reflectance and appearance rendering; Shape from reflectance; Shape from shading

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; GRAPH THEORY; NONMETALLIC MATERIALS; PHOTOMETRY;

DIFFUSE REFLECTION; LAMBERTIAN MODEL;

COMPUTER VISION;

PHYSICS BASED VISION; REFLECTANCE AND APPEARANCE RENDERING; SHAPE-FROM REFLECTANCE; SHAPE-FROM SHADING;

EID: 0032182330     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008017513536     Document Type: Article

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