UDC 519.16, DOI: 10.2298/CSIS1001001Z

An Extended Photometric Stereo Algorithm for Recovering Specular Object Shape and Its Reflectance Properties

Zuoyong Zheng1, Lizhuang Ma1, Zhong Li2 and Zhihua Chen3, 4

  1. Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University
    China
    {zuoyong.zheng}@gmail.com, , {ma-lz}@cs.sjtu.edu.cn,
  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
    China
    lizhongzju@hotmail.com
  3. Department of Computer Science, East China University of Sci-Tech
    China
    czh@ecust.edu.cn
  4. State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University
    China

Abstract

In Photometric stereo, the existence of specularities hampers to recover the normal map. To deal with this common reflective phenomenon, we introduce a novel representation for specular reflection with a set of specular basis functions with different roughness values. This representation is suitable for any intensively or weakly specular object, and is introduced into the photometric stereo algorithm to recover both the surface shape and its reflectance properties. The reconstructed shapes and re-rendered images validate the proposed algorithm

Key words

Photometric Stereo, Specular Reflection, Surface Reconstruction

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS1001001Z

Publication information

Volume 7, Issue 1 (February 2010)
Advances in Computer Animation and Digital Entertainment
Year of Publication: 2010
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Zheng, Z., Ma, L., Li, Z., Chen, Z.: An Extended Photometric Stereo Algorithm for Recovering Specular Object Shape and Its Reflectance Properties. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1-12. (2010), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS1001001Z