Beyond Lambert: reconstructing specular surfaces using color

• Published in: 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) Vol. 2; pp. 619 - 626 vol. 2
• Main Authors: Mallick, S.P., Zickler, T.E., Kriegman, D.J., Belhumeur, P.N.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Histograms; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Image reconstruction; Independent component analysis; Photometry; Polarization; Reflection; Reflectivity; Surface reconstruction
• ISBN: 0769523722; 9780769523729
• ISSN: 1063-6919; 1063-6919
• DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2005.88

We present a photometric stereo method for non-diffuse materials that does not require an explicit reflectance model or reference object. By computing a data-dependent rotation of RGB color space, we show that the specular reflection effects can be separated from the much simpler, diffuse (approxima...