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This paper discusses the special case of reconstructing the unknown Lambertian surface from two-image photometric stereo. Both images are assumed here to be formed by a genuine second-order algebraic surface. The corresponding uniqueness issue is discussed for different pairs of image irradiance equations under various illumination settings. Illustrative examples supplement presented analysis and demonstrate its main gist.
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Kozera, R., Prokopenya, A. (2018). Second-Order Algebraic Surfaces and Two Image Photometric Stereo. In: Chmielewski, L., Kozera, R., Orłowski, A., Wojciechowski, K., Bruckstein, A., Petkov, N. (eds) Computer Vision and Graphics. ICCVG 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11114. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00692-1_21
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