Photometric Stereo via Expectation Maximization

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 546-560

  Wu, Tai Pang ^a   Tang, Chi Keung ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

albedo and visible surface reconstruction; expectation maximization; normal; Photometric stereo

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008024092     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.15     Document Type: Article

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