Linear shape from shading

✍ Scribed by Alex P. Pentland

• Book ID: 104632724
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 651 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5691
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00127815

✦ Synopsis

In many situations the reflectance function of a surface is approximately linear, and there is an efficient closedform solution to the shape-from-shading problem. When boundary conditions (e.g., edges, singular points) are not available, good estimates of shape may still be extracted by using the assumption of general viewing position. An improved method for estimating the illuminant direction is also presented.