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What is Photometric Stereo

Chapter 47
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
An important group of techniques for recovering surface orientation. The technique requires a set of images, which are taken from the same view angles but with different lighting conditions. This technique is easy to implement, but requires the control of the lighting in the application environment.
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A Comprehensive Survey on Face Image Analysis
Yu-Jin Zhang (Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch047
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Visualization and Fruition of Cultural Heritage in the Knowledge-Intensive Society: New Paradigms of Interaction With Digital Replicas of Museum Objects, Drawings, and Manuscripts
In computer vision, photometric stereo is a technique used to get an accurate estimation of a surface’s normals by observing the object under different lighting conditions, since light reflected by a surface is dependent on the orientation of it in relation to the light source.
Published in Chapter: Visualization and Fruition of Cultural Heritage in the Knowledge-Intensive Society: New Paradigms of Interaction With Digital Replicas of Museum Objects, Drawings, and Manuscripts; From: Handbook of Research on Implementing Digital Reality and Interactive Technologies to Achieve Society 5.0
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