On uniqueness of solutions of the three-light-source photometric stereo: Conditions on illumination configuration and surface reflectance

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 211-226

  Okatani, Takayuki ^a   Deguchi, Koichiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; PHOTOMETRY; STEREO VISION;

PHOTOMETRIC STEREO;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035247214     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.2000.0887     Document Type: Article

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