Shape from fluorescence

Tali Treibitz, Zak Murez, B. Greg Mitchell, David Kriegman

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Abstract

Beyond day glow highlighters and psychedelic black light posters, it has been estimated that fluorescence is a property exhibited by 20% of objects. When a fluorescent material is illuminated with a short wavelength light, it re-emits light at a longer wavelength isotropically in a similar manner as a Lambertian surface reflects light. This hitherto neglected property opens the doors to using fluorescence to reconstruct 3D shape with some of the same techniques as for Lambertian surfaces - even when the surface's reflectance is highly non-Lambertian. Thus, performing reconstruction using fluorescence has advantages over purely Lambertian surfaces. Single image shape-from-shading and calibrated Lambertian photometric stereo can be applied to fluorescence images to reveal 3D shape. When performing uncalibrated photometric stereo, both fluorescence and reflectance can be used to recover Euclidean shape and resolve the generalized bas relief ambiguity. Finally for objects that fluoresce in wavelengths distinct from their reflectance (such as plants and vegetables), reconstructions do not suffer from problems due to inter-reflections. We validate these claims through experiments.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationComputer Vision, ECCV 2012 - 12th European Conference on Computer Vision, Proceedings
Pages292-306
Number of pages15
EditionPART 7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event12th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2012 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 7 Oct 201213 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 7
Volume7578 LNCS

Conference

Conference12th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2012
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period7/10/1213/10/12

Keywords

  • 3D Reconstruction
  • Fluorescence
  • Photometric Stereo
  • Shape from Shading
  • Subsurface Scattering

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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