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 …

The goal of image synthesis is to create, using the computer, a visual experience that is
identical to what a viewer would experience when viewing a real environment. Radiosity …

We have developed a technique to study how good computers can be at diagnosing
gastrointestinal lesions from regular (white light and narrow banded) colonoscopic videos …

In this paper, we present an approach to color image understanding that can be used to
segment and analyze surfaces with color variations due to highlights and shading. The work …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

Many materials, including leaves, water, plastic, and chrome exhibit specular reflections. It
seems reasonable that the visual system can somehow exploit specular reflections to …

The separation of reflection components is an important issue in computer graphics,
computer vision and image processing. It provides useful information for the applications …

Traditional intensity imaging does not offer a general approach for the perception of
textureless and specular reflecting surfaces. Intensity based methods for shape …

A theoretical framework is introduced for the perception of specular surface geometry. When
an observer moves in three-dimensional space, real scene features such as surface …

This paper explores shape from contour for acquiring 3-D graphics models. In this method, a
continuous sequence of images is taken as an object rotates. A smooth convex shape can …