Various visual cues provide information about depth and shape in a scene. When several of
these cues are simultaneously available in a single location in the scene, the visual system …

A fundamental problem for the visual perception of 3D shape is that patterns of optical
stimulation are inherently ambiguous. Recent mathematical analyses have shown, however …

The goal of our work is to complete the depth channel of an RGB-D image. Commodity-
grade depth cameras often fail to sense depth for shiny, bright, transparent, and distant …

Since the first shape-from-shading (SFS) technique was developed by Horn in the early
1970s, many different approaches have emerged. In this paper, six well-known SFS …

The method described here for recovering the shape of a surface from a shaded image can
deal with complex, wrinkled surfaces. Integrability can be enforced easily because both …

We studied the integration of image disparities, edge information, and shading in the three-
dimensional perception of complex yet well-controlled images generated with a computer …

A series of experiments is reported that investigated the effects of variations in lighting and
viewpoint on the recognition and matching of facial surfaces. In matching tasks, changing …

In this paper we introduce a new light reflection model for image synthesis based on
experimental studies of surface gloss perception. To develop the model, we've conducted …

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 human visual system is proficient in perceiving three-dimensional shape from the
shading patterns in a two-dimensional image. How it does this is not well understood and …