Single-shot photometric stereo by spectral multiplexing

  • Authors:
  • Graham Fyffe

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010 Sketches
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Spectral multiplexing allows multiple channels of information to be captured simultaneously, using readily available color cameras. Information may be multiplexed across the color channels of a camera by use of colored lights (e.g. [Woodham 1980; Hernandez and Vogiatzis 2010]) or colored filters (e.g. [Bando et al. 2008]). We propose a novel method for single-shot photometric stereo by spectral multiplexing. The output of our method is a simultaneous per-pixel estimate of the surface normal and full-color reflectance. Our method is well suited to materials with varying color and texture, requires no time-varying illumination, and no high-speed cameras. Being a single-shot method, it may be applied to dynamic scenes without any need for optical flow. Our key contributions are a generalization of three-color photometric stereo to multiple (more than three) color channels, and the design of a practical six-color-channel system using off-the-shelf parts only.