SVBRDF-invariant shape and reflectance estimation from light-field cameras

TC Wang, M Chandraker, AA Efros… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - cv-foundation.org
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern …, 2016cv-foundation.org
Light-field cameras have recently emerged as a powerful tool for one-shot passive 3D shape
capture. However, obtaining the shape of glossy objects like metals, plastics or ceramics
remains challenging, since standard Lambertian cues like photo-consistency cannot be
easily applied. In this paper, we derive a spatially-varying (SV) BRDF-invariant theory for
recovering 3D shape and reflectance from light-field cameras. Our key theoretical insight is a
novel analysis of diffuse plus single-lobe SVBRDFs under a light-field setup. We show that …
Abstract
Light-field cameras have recently emerged as a powerful tool for one-shot passive 3D shape capture. However, obtaining the shape of glossy objects like metals, plastics or ceramics remains challenging, since standard Lambertian cues like photo-consistency cannot be easily applied. In this paper, we derive a spatially-varying (SV) BRDF-invariant theory for recovering 3D shape and reflectance from light-field cameras. Our key theoretical insight is a novel analysis of diffuse plus single-lobe SVBRDFs under a light-field setup. We show that, although direct shape recovery is not possible, an equation relating depths and normals can still be derived. Using this equation, we then propose using a polynomial (quadratic) shape prior to resolve the shape ambiguity. Once shape is estimated, we can also recover the reflectance. We present extensive synthetic data on the entire MERL BRDF dataset, as well as a number of real examples to validate the theory, where we simultaneously recover shape and BRDFs from a single image taken with a Lytro Illum camera.
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