Generalized surface geometry estimation in photometric stereo and two-view stereo matching.

Hung, Chun Ho.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011.Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-63).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 2 --- Generalized Photometric Stereo --- p.6Chapter 2.1 --- Problem Description --- p.6Chapter 2.2 --- Related Work --- p.9Chapter 2.3 --- Photometric Stereo with Environment Lighting --- p.11Chapter 2.4 --- Estimating Surface Normals --- p.13Chapter 2.4.1 --- Surface Normal and Albedo Estimation --- p.14Chapter 2.5 --- Data Acquisition Configuration --- p.17Chapter 2.6 --- Issues --- p.19Chapter 2.7 --- Outlier Removal --- p.22Chapter 2.8 --- Experimental Results --- p.23Chapter 3 --- Generalized Stereo Matching --- p.30Chapter 3.1 --- Problem Description --- p.30Chapter 3.2 --- Related Work --- p.32Chapter 3.3 --- Our Approach --- p.33Chapter 3.3.1 --- Notations and Problem Introduction --- p.33Chapter 3.3.2 --- Depth and Motion Initialization --- p.35Chapter 3.3.3 --- Volume-based Structure Prior --- p.38Chapter 3.3.4 --- Objective Function with Volume-based Priors --- p.43Chapter 3.3.5 --- Numerical Solution --- p.46Chapter 3.4 --- Results --- p.48Chapter 4 --- Conclusion --- p.56Bibliography --- p.5