DocumentCode :
2174950
Title :
Appearance sampling for obtaining a set of basis images for variable illumination
Author :
Sato, Imari ; Okabe, Takahiro ; Sato, Yoichi ; Ikeuchi, Katsushi
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Ind. Sci., Tokyo Univ., Japan
fYear :
2003
fDate :
13-16 Oct. 2003
Firstpage :
800
Abstract :
Previous studies have demonstrated that the appearance of an object under varying illumination conditions can be represented by a low-dimensional linear subspace. A set of basis images spanning such a linear subspace can be obtained by applying the principal component analysis (PCA) for a large number of images taken under different lighting conditions. While the approaches based on PCA have been used successfully for object recognition under varying illumination conditions, little is known about how many images would be required in order to obtain the basis images correctly. In this study, we present a novel method for analytically obtaining a set of basis images of an object for arbitrary illumination from input images of the object taken under a point light source. The main contribution of our work is that we show that a set of lighting directions can be determined for sampling images of an object depending on the spectrum of the object´s BRDF in the angular frequency domain such that a set of harmonic images can be obtained analytically based on the sampling theorem on spherical harmonics. In addition, unlike the previously proposed techniques based on spherical harmonics, our method does not require the 3D shape and reflectance properties of an object used for rendering harmonics images of the object synthetically.
Keywords :
computer vision; image sampling; object recognition; principal component analysis; rendering (computer graphics); BRDF; angular frequency domain; appearance sampling; arbitrary illumination; basis images; harmonic images; image sampling; input images; lighting conditions; low-dimensional linear subspace; object illumination; object recognition; principal component analysis; sampling theorem; spherical harmonics; variable illumination; Frequency domain analysis; Harmonic analysis; Image analysis; Image sampling; Light sources; Lighting; Object recognition; Principal component analysis; Reflectivity; Shape;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer Vision, 2003. Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nice, France
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1950-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICCV.2003.1238430
Filename :
1238430
Link To Document :
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