Dense photometric stereo using tensorial belief propagation

• Published in: 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) Vol. 1; pp. 132 - 139 vol. 1
• Main Authors: Kam-Lun Tang, Chi-Keung Tang, Tien-Tsin Wong
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Acoustic reflection; Belief propagation; Handheld computers; Image reconstruction; Markov random fields; Message passing; Noise robustness; Optical reflection; Photometry; Stereo image processing

We address the normal reconstruction problem by photometric stereo using a uniform and dense set of photometric images captured at fixed viewpoint. Our method is robust to spurious noises caused by highlight and shadows and non-Lambertian reflections. To simultaneously recover normal orientations an...