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The shape-from-shading (SFS) technique uses the pattern of shading in images in order to obtain 3D view information. By virtue of their ease of implementation, linearization-based SFS algorithms are frequently used in the literature. In this study,...

In this paper, a novel method for expression-insensitive face recognition is proposed from only a 2D single image in a gallery including any facial expressions. A 3D Generic Elastic Model (3D GEM) is used to reconstruct a 3D model of each human face in ...

Most recent approaches to monocular nonrigid 3D shape recovery rely on exploiting point correspondences and work best when the whole surface is well textured. The alternative is to rely on either contours or shading information, which has only been ...

It has been known that it is hard to capture the high-frequency components (shadows and specularities) during the modeling of illumination effects. In this paper, we propose a reflectance model to simulate the interaction of light and the facial surface ...

Specular flow is the motion field induced on the image plane by the movement of points reflected by a curved, mirror-like surface. This flow provides information about surface shape, and when the camera and surface move as a fixed pair, shape can be ...

This paper presents a novel approach for dense reconstruction from a single-view of a repetitive scene structure. Given an image and its detected repetition regions, we model the shape recovery as the dense pixel correspondences within a single image. ...

This paper presents models and algorithms for estimating the shape of a mirrored surface from a single image of that surface, rendered under an unknown, natural illumination. While the unconstrained nature of this problem seems to make shape recovery ...

In deflectometry, the shape of mirror objects is recovered from distorted images of a calibrated scene. While remarkably high accuracies are achievable, state-of-the-art methods suffer from two distinct weaknesses: First, for mainly constructive reasons,...

Global illumination effects such as inter-reflections, diffusion and sub-surface scattering severely degrade the performance of structured light-based 3D scanning. In this paper, we analyze the errors caused by global illumination in structured light-...

Spherical harmonics (SH) has been an attractive fit for illumination modeling in shape recovery after the conclusion drawn by Basri and Jacobs [1]. The main challenge is the computation of the spherical harmonics projection (SHP) images to be robust ...

We propose a new markerless shape and motion capture approach from multiview video sequences. The shape recovery method consists of two steps: separating and merging. In the separating step, the depth map represented with a point cloud for each view is ...

Physics-based particle systems are an effective tool for shape modeling. Also, there has been much interest in the study of shape modeling using deformable contour approaches. In this paper, we describe a new deformable model with electric flows based ...

We present a nonstationary stochastic filtering framework for the task of albedo estimation from a single image. There are several approaches in the literature for albedo estimation, but few include the errors in estimates of surface normals and light ...

We present a simple and low cost 3D shape acquisition method that can measure the objects with interreflection and high light. The capture system employs a projector to project line shifting shadow on the object, and a digital camera to record videos (...

Several techniques for arbitrary shape recovery from scanned data attempt to recognize and further regularize shape. For arbitrary shape, one can recognize several shape features which should be guided with global shape parameters. Smoothed curves and ...

Reverse engineering is concerned with the reconstruction of surfaces from three-dimensional point clouds originating from laser-scanned objects. We present an adaptive surface reconstruction method providing a hierarchy of quadrilateral meshes adapting ...

Cast shadows are an informative cue to the shape of objects. They are particularly valuable for discovering object's concavities which are not available from other cues such as occluding boundaries. We propose a new method for recovering shape from ...

A novel, physically motivated deformable model for shape recovery and segmentation is presented. The model, referred to as the charged-particle model (CPM), is inspired by classical electrodynamics and is based on a simulation of charged particles ...

We present an end-to-end system that goes from video sequences to high resolution, editable, dynamically controllable face models. The capture system employs synchronized video cameras and structured light projectors to record videos of a moving face ...

We present an end-to-end system that goes from video sequences to high resolution, editable, dynamically controllable face models. The capture system employs synchronized video cameras and structured light projectors to record videos of a moving face ...