A MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD SURFACE NORMAL ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR HELMHOLTZ STEREOPSIS

Jean-Yves Guillemaut, Ondřej Drbohlav, John Illingworth, Radim Šára

2008

Abstract

Helmholtz stereopsis is a relatively recent reconstruction technique which is able to reconstruct scenes with arbitrary and unknown surface reflectance properties. Conventional implementations of the method estimate surface normal direction at each surface point via an eigenanalysis, thereby optimising an algebraic distance. We develop a more physically meaningful radiometric distance whose minimisation is shown to yield a Maximum Likelihood surface normal estimate. The proposed method produces more accurate results than algebraic methods on synthetic imagery and yields excellent reconstruction results on real data. Our analysis explains why, for some imaging configurations, a sub-optimal algebraic distance can yield good results.

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Guillemaut J., Drbohlav O., Illingworth J. and Šára R. (2008). A MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD SURFACE NORMAL ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR HELMHOLTZ STEREOPSIS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-21-0, pages 352-359. DOI: 10.5220/0001083203520359

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp08,
author={Jean-Yves Guillemaut and Ondřej Drbohlav and John Illingworth and Radim Šára},
title={A MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD SURFACE NORMAL ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR HELMHOLTZ STEREOPSIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={352-359},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001083203520359},
isbn={978-989-8111-21-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - A MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD SURFACE NORMAL ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR HELMHOLTZ STEREOPSIS
SN - 978-989-8111-21-0
AU - Guillemaut J.
AU - Drbohlav O.
AU - Illingworth J.
AU - Šára R.
PY - 2008
SP - 352
EP - 359
DO - 10.5220/0001083203520359