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Illumination and Spatially Varying Specular Reflectance from a Single View

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Illumination and Spatially Varying Specular Reflectance from a Single View
Estimating the illumination and the reflectance properties of an object surface from a sparse set of images is an important but inherently ill-posed problem. The problem becomes even harder if we wish to account for the spatial variation of material properties on the surface. In this paper, we derive a novel method for estimating the spatially varying specular reflectance properties, of a surface of known geometry, as well as the illumination distribution from a specular-only image, for instance, captured using polarization to separate reflection components. Unlike previous work, we do not assume the illumination to be a single point light source. We model specular reflection with a spherical statistical distribution and encode the spatial variation with radial basis functions of its parameters. This allows us to formulate the simultaneous estimation of spatially varying specular reflectance and illumination as a sound probabilistic inference problem, in particular, usi...
Kenji Hara (Kyushu University), Ko Nishino (Drexel
Added 09 May 2009
Updated 10 Dec 2009
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where CVPR
Authors Kenji Hara (Kyushu University), Ko Nishino (Drexel University)
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