Reconstruction of a complex mirror surface from a single image

Hongsong Li*, Ting Song, Zehuan Wu, Jiandong Ma, Gangyi Ding

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Abstract

In this work, we propose a method to recover the shape of a complex mirror surface from a single image with un-calibrated environment. A complex mirror surface reflects the same environment feature at multiple surface points. These static reflection correspondences (SRCs) can be detected with SIFT (or its variations) and provide important visual cue of the surface shape. The detected SRCs are clustered by a bipartite graph partition method so that each cluster of SRCs is within either elliptic or hyperbolic surface regions. The surface region is then further segmented by a Voronoi diagram of the SRCs. Within each Voronoi cell, the surface is approximated by a local quadric model. Assuming orthographic projection and distant environment, the SRCs of an environment feature share the same surface gradient, which provides a major constraint to the surface shape. Along with the smoothness constraints, the surface shape can be recovered with an optimization method. Synthesized and physical experiments support our proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Visual Computing - 10th International Symposium, ISVC 2014, Proceedings
EditorsGeorge Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Ryan McMahan, Jason Jerald, Hui Zhang, Steven M. Drucker, Kambhamettu Chandra, El Choubassi Maha, Zhigang Deng, Mark Carlson
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages402-412
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9783319142487
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event10th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2014 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 8 Dec 201410 Dec 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8887
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period8/12/1410/12/14

Keywords

  • Deflectometry
  • Shape from shading
  • Specular surfaces
  • Static reflection correspondences

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