Shape-from-shading using the heat equation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-21

  Robles Kelly, Antonio ^a   Hancock, Edwin R ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT SOURCES; LUMINANCE; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

HEAT EQUATION; LAMBERT'S LAW; SHAPE-FROM-SHADING; SURFACE NORMAL RECOVERY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIGHTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33847717113     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.884945     Document Type: Article

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