A closed-form, consistent and robust solution to uncalibrated photometric stereo via local diffuse reflectance maxima

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 139-154

  Papadhimitri, Thoma ^a   Favaro, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Diffuse; GBR; Maxima; Photometric stereo; Uncalibrated

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; REFLECTION;

AMBIGUITY; DIFFUSE; GBR; MAXIMA; PHOTOMETRIC STEREO; UNCALIBRATED;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84897110237     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-013-0665-5     Document Type: Article

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