Multispectral Photometric Stereo for Acquiring High-Fidelity Surface Normals

Giljoo Nam, Min H. Kim
2014 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications  
An advanced imaging technique of multispectral imaging has become more accessible as a physically-meaningful image-based measurement tool, and photometric stereo has been commonly practiced for digitizing a 3D shape with simplicity for more than three decades. However, these two imaging techniques have rarely been combined as a 3D imaging application yet. Reconstructing the shape of a 3D object using photometric stereo is still challenging due to the optical phenomena such as indirect
more » ... on, specular reflection, self shadow. In addition, removing interreflection in photometric stereo is a traditional chicken-and-egg problem as we need to account for interreflection without knowing geometry. In this paper, we present a novel multispectral photometric stereo method that allows us to remove interreflection on diffuse materials using multispectral reflectance information. Our proposed method can be easily integrated into an existing photometric stereo system by simply substituting the current camera with a multispectral camera, as our method does not rely on additional structured or colored lights. We demonstrate several benefits of our multispectral photometric stereo method such as removing interreflection and reconstructing the 3D shapes of objects to a high accuracy.
doi:10.1109/mcg.2014.108 pmid:25216479 fatcat:2fm7focvnfcxdhjthhuoflxxoa