Photometric stereo with general, unknown lighting

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 239-257

  Basri, Ronen ^a   Jacobs, David ^b   Kemelmacher, Ira ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse lighting; Lambertian reflectance; Lorentz transformation; Photometric stereo

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSE LIGHTING; LAMBERTIAN REFLECTANCE; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION; PHOTOMETRIC STEREOS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SCANNING;

PHOTOMETRY;

EID: 33846258137     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-006-8815-7     Document Type: Article

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