What shadows reveal about object structure

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1804-1813

  Kriegman, David J ^a   Belhumeur, Peter N ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ORTHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 0038119305     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.001804     Document Type: Article

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