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Height-from-Polarisation with Unknown Lighting or Albedo

We present a method for estimating surface height directly from a single polarisation image simply by solving a large, sparse system of linear equations. To do so, we show how to express polarisation constraints as equations that are linear in the unknown height. The local ambiguity in the surface normal azimuth angle is resolved globally when the optimal surface height is reconstructed. Our method is applicable to dielectric objects exhibiting diffuse and specular reflectance, though lighting and albedo must be known. We relax this requirement by showing that either spatially varying albedo or illumination can be estimated from the polarisation image alone using nonlinear methods. In the case of illumination, the estimate can only be made up to a binary ambiguity which we show is a generalised Bas-relief transformation corresponding to the convex/concave ambiguity. We believe that our method is the first passive, monocular shape-from-x technique that enables well-posed height estimation with only a single, uncalibrated illumination condition. We present results on real world data, including in uncontrolled, outdoor illumination.

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE; Vol.41 No.12 December 2019

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p. 2875 - 2888

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English

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ILLUMINATION ESTIMATION
POLARISATION
SHAPE-FROM-X
BAS-RELIEF AMBIGUITY
ALBEDO ESTIMATION

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

William A. P. Smith, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Silvia Tozza

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