This state of the art report covers reconstruction methods for transparent and specular
objects or phenomena. While the 3D acquisition of opaque surfaces with Lambertian …

Recent progress on photometric stereo extends the technique to deal with general materials
and unknown illumination conditions. However, due to the lack of suitable benchmark data …

Photorealistic rendering of real world environments is important in a range of different areas;
including Visual Special effects, Interior/Exterior Modelling, Architectural Modelling, Cultural …

This paper describes a passive stereo system for capturing the 3D geometry of a face in a
single-shot under standard light sources. The system is low-cost and easy to deploy. Results …

We estimate surface normal maps of an object from either its diffuse or specular reflectance
using four spherical gradient illumination patterns. In contrast to traditional photometric …

This paper addresses the task of estimating spatially-varying reflectance (ie, SVBRDF) from
a single, casually captured image. Central to our method is a highlight-aware (HA) …

We describe a system for capturing microscopic surface geometry. The system extends the
retrographic sensor [Johnson and Adelson 2009] to the microscopic domain, demonstrating …

Translucent objects pose a difficult problem for traditional structured light 3D scanning
techniques. Subsurface scattering corrupts the range estimation in two ways: by drastically …

Photometric stereo recovers three-dimensional (3D) object surface normal from multiple
images under different illumination directions. Traditional photometric stereo methods suffer …

The image of a material's surface varies not only with viewing and illumination conditions,
but also with the material's surface properties, including its 3-D texture and specularity …