Robust estimation of albedo for illumination-invariant matching and shape recovery

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 884-899

  Biswas, Soma ^a   Aggarwal, Gaurav ^b   Chellappa, Rama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b OBJECTVIDEO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo estimation; Illumination invariant matching; Image estimation; Shape recovery

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO ESTIMATION; ALBEDO MAPS; GROUND TRUTHS; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; ILLUMINATION SOURCES; ILLUMINATION VARIATIONS; ILLUMINATION-INVARIANT MATCHING; IMAGE ESTIMATION; IMAGING CONDITIONS; MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCES; NON STATIONARIES; NORMALIZED IMAGES; ROBUST ESTIMATIONS; SHAPE FROM SHADINGS; SHAPE RECOVERY; SINGLE IMAGES; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACHES; STOCHASTIC FILTERING; SURFACE NORMALS;

ERROR STATISTICS; ESTIMATION; FACE RECOGNITION; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; RECOVERY; SOLAR RADIATION;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 64849086310     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.135     Document Type: Article

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