Shape and Spatially-Varying BRDFs from Photometric Stereo

  • Authors:
  • Dan B. Goldman;Brian Curless;Aaron Hertzmann;Steven M. Seitz

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington;University of Washington;University of Toronto;University of Washington

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '05 Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'05) Volume 1 - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper describes a photometric stereo method designed for surfaces with spatially-varying BRDFs, including surfaces with both varying diffuse and specular properties. Our method builds on the observation that most objects are composed of a small number of fundamental materials. This approach recovers not only the shape but also material BRDFs and weight maps, yielding compelling results for a wide variety of objects. We also show examples of interactive lighting and editing operations made possible by our method.