Object surface recovery using a multi-light photometric stereo technique for non-Lambertian surfaces subject to shadows and specularities

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1050-1057

  Sun, Jiuai ^a   Smith, Melvyn ^a   Smith, Lyndon ^a   Midha, Sagar ^a   Bamber, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Height map; Linear least squares solution; Photometric stereo; Shadows; Specular reflection; Surface orientation; Surface reflectance

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTOMETRY; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

HEIGHT MAP; LINEAR LEAST-SQUARES SOLUTION; PHOTOMETRIC STEREO; SPECULAR REFLECTION; SURFACE ORIENTATION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 34247641169     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.04.025     Document Type: Article

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