Estimating surface normals from spherical stokes reflectance fields

  • Authors:
  • Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera;Pieter Peers;Paul Debevec;Abhijeet Ghosh

  • Affiliations:
  • USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Playa Vista, CA;The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA;USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Playa Vista, CA;USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Playa Vista, CA

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce a novel technique for estimating surface normals from the four Stokes polarization parameters of specularly reflected light under a single spherical incident lighting condition that is either unpolarized or circularly polarized. We illustrate the practicality of our technique by estimating surface normals under uncontrolled outdoor illumination from just four observations from a fixed viewpoint.