Ryan White and David Forsyth

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2005-14

November 17, 2005

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2005/EECS-2005-14.pdf

We demonstrate a method for reconstructing the shape of a deformed surface from a single view. After decomposing an image into irradiance and albedo components, we combine normal cues from shading and texture to produce a field of unambiguous normals. Using these normals, we reconstruct the 3D geometry. Our method works in two regimes: either requiring the frontal appearance of the texture or building it automatically from a series of images of the deforming texture. We can recover geometry with errors below four percent of object size on arbitrary textures, and estimate specific geometric parameters using a custom texture even more accurately.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{White:EECS-2005-14,
    Author= {White, Ryan and Forsyth, David},
    Title= {Combining Cues: Shape from Shading and Texture},
    Year= {2005},
    Month= {Nov},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2005/EECS-2005-14.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2005-14},
    Abstract= {We demonstrate a method for reconstructing the shape of a deformed surface from a single view.  After decomposing an image into irradiance and albedo components, we combine normal cues from shading and texture to produce a field of unambiguous normals.  Using these normals, we reconstruct the 3D geometry.  Our method works in two regimes: either requiring the frontal appearance of the texture or building it automatically from a series of images of the deforming texture.  We can recover geometry with errors below four percent of object size on arbitrary textures, and estimate specific geometric parameters using a custom texture even more accurately.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%A White, Ryan 
%A Forsyth, David 
%T Combining Cues: Shape from Shading and Texture
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2005
%8 November 17
%@ UCB/EECS-2005-14
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%F White:EECS-2005-14