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Toward Accurate Recovery of Shape from Shading Under Diffuse Lighting
September 1997 (vol. 19 no. 9)
pp. 1020-1025

Abstract—A new surface radiance model for diffuse lighting is presented which incorporates shadows, interreflections, and surface orientation. An algorithm is presented that uses this model to compute shape-from-shading under diffuse lighting. The algorithm is tested on both synthetic and real images, and is found to perform more accurately than the only previous algorithm for this problem.

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Index Terms:
Shape-from-shading, diffuse lighting, interreflections, shadows, visual events, horizon, skyline.
Citation:
A. James Stewart, Michael S. Langer, "Toward Accurate Recovery of Shape from Shading Under Diffuse Lighting," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 1020-1025, Sept. 1997, doi:10.1109/34.615450
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