Computation of the sign of the Gaussian curvature of a surface from multiple unknown illumination images without knowledge of the reflectance property

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-134

  Okatani, Takayuki ^a   Deguchi, Koichiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GAUSSIAN CURVATURE; IMAGE INTENSITY; POSE ESTIMATION; PSEUDO GAUSSIAN IMAGE;

IMAGE UNDERSTANDING;

EID: 0033331147     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1999.0792     Document Type: Article

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